No I do parallel reading. Usually there are a few non fiction sitting part read. I try not to leave fiction unread but there are a few of those...Did you just read that in the last two and a half hours?
No I do parallel reading. Usually there are a few non fiction sitting part read. I try not to leave fiction unread but there are a few of those...Did you just read that in the last two and a half hours?
31/45 Rosa Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution
She fair hands it to Bernstein. Remember those days when people believed reforms might happen?
It's urban, so pretty fucking oldFFS, how old do you think we are?
It's urban, so pretty fucking old
I mean, it's easier to guess when you have posters who put the year of their birth in their usernames.FFS, how old do you think we are?
1/30 - Lexie Conyngham - Tomb for an Eagle
2/30 - Michael Eaton - B*llocks -A Word on Trial
3/30 - Paul Simpson - Revolutionary Spirit
4/30 - Joe Thomas - Red Menace
5/30 - Daniel Clowes - Monica
6/30 - Will Sergeant - Echoes
7/30 - Wu Ming - 54
8/30 - Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl, my life as a feminist punk
9/30 - Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudon
10/30 - Volodomyr Ishchenko - Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
11/30 - Dan Kavanagh - Duffy
12/30 - Samantha Schweblin - Little Eyes
13/30 - Tabitha Stanmore - Cunning Folk: Life in the Age of Practical Magic
14/30 - Nathalie Olah - Bad Taste
15/30 - Luke Haines - Freaks Out! Weirdos, Misfits & Deviants - The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock 'n' Roll
16/30 - Willy Vlautin - The Horse
The Delines/Richmond Fontaine singer writes another cheery novel about a guy who just loves playing the guitar, but is, in every other way, a complete fuck up. And a horse.*
17/30 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Silver Nitrate
Mexican horror movies and nazi occultists abound in this fun novel about the search for a long lost film and the powers it might contain.
*A horse features in the novel as well. The man isn't a horse.
Oh, I really liked the sitcom about about a man who is both a complete fuck up, and a horse, so would definitely have read a novel that was on similar lines.1/30 - Lexie Conyngham - Tomb for an Eagle
2/30 - Michael Eaton - B*llocks -A Word on Trial
3/30 - Paul Simpson - Revolutionary Spirit
4/30 - Joe Thomas - Red Menace
5/30 - Daniel Clowes - Monica
6/30 - Will Sergeant - Echoes
7/30 - Wu Ming - 54
8/30 - Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl, my life as a feminist punk
9/30 - Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudon
10/30 - Volodomyr Ishchenko - Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
11/30 - Dan Kavanagh - Duffy
12/30 - Samantha Schweblin - Little Eyes
13/30 - Tabitha Stanmore - Cunning Folk: Life in the Age of Practical Magic
14/30 - Nathalie Olah - Bad Taste
15/30 - Luke Haines - Freaks Out! Weirdos, Misfits & Deviants - The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock 'n' Roll
16/30 - Willy Vlautin - The Horse
The Delines/Richmond Fontaine singer writes another cheery novel about a guy who just loves playing the guitar, but is, in every other way, a complete fuck up. And a horse.*
17/30 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Silver Nitrate
Mexican horror movies and nazi occultists abound in this fun novel about the search for a long lost film and the powers it might contain.
*A horse features in the novel as well. The man isn't a horse.
Aiming for 31.
So far finished:
1/31 Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
2/31 Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappé
3/31 Buying Time - Wolfgang Streeck
4/31 Too Late to Awaken - Slavoj Zizek
5/31 Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
6/31 2023 A Trilogy - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
7/31 The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
I'm coming to the end of 8/31 which is The Long '68 by Richard Vinen.
I will read a couple of books in Spanish - I thought I could try Isabel Allende as an experiement and try and read a book from cover to cover in Portuguese, which I've never done.
Books will be about teaching, linguistics, sci-fi, biography, history and contemporary fiction mainly - but could be anything because i'm reading for breadth not depth.
1/31 Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
2/31 Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappé
3/31 Buying Time - Wolfgang Streeck
4/31 Too Late to Awaken - Slavoj Zizek
5/31 Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
6/31 2023 A Trilogy - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
7/31 The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
8/31 The Long '68 - Richard Vinen
9/31 The State of the Art - Iain M. Banks
10/31 Goldmund and Narcisuss - Herman Hesse
I've fallen behind a bit will catch up.
I'm about to finish 11/31 NW - Zadie Smith (excellent) in the next 24 hours.
I've also started 'La guerra del fin del mundo' - Mario Vargas Llosa - Spanish version of what I presume is originally a Portuguese language book.
I've bought The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster - which was my favourite book as a child and eager to see if it's as good as I remember it.
On Beauty - the third and final Zadie Smith book I'll read this year just arrived, and Excession, the next Culture book by Iain M. Banks is on its way. i'll probably squeeze one or two more of his in by the end of the year.
34/45 Viktor Haynes & Olga Semyonova Ed. - Workers Against the Gulag
Most of it was just lists of workers who were sent to psychiatric hospitals for complaining about their manager, but there were also some pretty grim eyewitness accounts of the Novocherkassk strikes and massacre.Reviewed in the June 1981 issue of the Socialist Standard . . . by a bloke who lived in Moscow as a Communist Youth International representative in the 1920s.
Harry Young in Moscow
10/24 Richard Norris - Strange Things Are Happening: Adventures in Music
Norris grew up in St Albans, same as me - but is five years older. He also, like me, spent a fair bit of time knocking about with Genesis P-Orridge in the late 80s and early 90s. I met him briefly at an acid house night in our home town and he was very lovely to a bug-eyed teenage me. So I was always going to read this, but I think it really works as a book on its own two feet. The early chapters are a nice account of youth and becoming obssessed with music, followed by early small-town bands and their petty feuds. Then a walloping account of early acid house parties and music and the adventures begin. Norris meets Soft Cell's Dave Ball via Genesis P-O and they form The Grid together and have their novely pop hit "Swamp Thing" which I never liked, as well as their incredible first album which I would recommend to anyone. This is followed by the usual bollocks of hob knobbing with celebrities and drugs (which is done with a warm self-deprecation). The closing sections are nicely reflective and a return to the magic of music with some outstanding new projects in the psych / dub / drone genres. A fun read - good for holidays I reckon! Wild cover art on the book also...