Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Did you pass?
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Did you pass?
Voley
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I failed, thankfully. Confirmation bias being what it is, though, there were a couple of worrying moments. It's a bit too easy to recognise some of your own less positive traits when you're reading a thing like this. However, he says that if you're remotely worried about being a psychopath, you can stop worrying right there and then as a true psychopath wouldn't give a shit.So I'm off the hook. And now you must excuse me as my dead Mother is calling from the attic and I'd better check on that woman in the shower.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/60 The Lost Starship - Vaughn Heppner.
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
So I'm off the hook. And now you must excuse me as my dead Mother is calling from the attic and I'd better check on that woman in the shower.
I know how you feel. Some of my mom's relatives are bi-polar. There are times I'll do something that reminds me of them and I'll think "Oh shit!!!."
Voley
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1/20 My Story - Steven Gerrard
2/20 Ancient Sites In West Penwith - Cheryl Straffon
3/20 Execution Sites Of Devon And Cornwall - Richard Peirce
4/20 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Salman Rushdie
5/20 Pegasus Descending - James Lee Burke
6/20 The Story Of Kullervo - J.R.R. Tolkein
7/20 Walking The Himalayas - Levison Wood
8/20 Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil
9/20 The Doors Of Perception - Aldous Huxley
10/20 Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
11/20 Autobiography - Morrissey
12/20 I Swear I Was There: The Gig That Changed The World - David Nolan
13/20 Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century - John Higgs
14/20 So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
15/20 The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
16/20 Raw Spirit - Iain Banks
17/20 Them: Adventures With Extremists - Jon Ronson
2/20 Ancient Sites In West Penwith - Cheryl Straffon
3/20 Execution Sites Of Devon And Cornwall - Richard Peirce
4/20 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Salman Rushdie
5/20 Pegasus Descending - James Lee Burke
6/20 The Story Of Kullervo - J.R.R. Tolkein
7/20 Walking The Himalayas - Levison Wood
8/20 Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil
9/20 The Doors Of Perception - Aldous Huxley
10/20 Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
11/20 Autobiography - Morrissey
12/20 I Swear I Was There: The Gig That Changed The World - David Nolan
13/20 Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century - John Higgs
14/20 So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
15/20 The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
16/20 Raw Spirit - Iain Banks
17/20 Them: Adventures With Extremists - Jon Ronson
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "11.22.63" - Stephen King
2. "Blind Eye" - Stuart MacBride
3. "The Inspector and Silence" - Hakan Nesser
4. "Dark Blood" - Stuart MacBride
5. "Old Man's War" - John Scalzi
6. "Night Music (Nocturnes 2)" - John Connolly
7. "Bloodline" - Mark Billingham.
8. "Shatter the Bones" - Stuart MacBride
9. "Apple Tree Yard" - Louise Doughty. Really enjoyed this, quite compelling
2. "Blind Eye" - Stuart MacBride
3. "The Inspector and Silence" - Hakan Nesser
4. "Dark Blood" - Stuart MacBride
5. "Old Man's War" - John Scalzi
6. "Night Music (Nocturnes 2)" - John Connolly
7. "Bloodline" - Mark Billingham.
8. "Shatter the Bones" - Stuart MacBride
9. "Apple Tree Yard" - Louise Doughty. Really enjoyed this, quite compelling
1/20 - The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
2/20 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
3/20 - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
4/20 - Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
5/20 - Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
6/20 - The Last Detective by Robert Crais
7/20 - The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World Solved by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman
2/20 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
3/20 - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
4/20 - Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
5/20 - Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
6/20 - The Last Detective by Robert Crais
7/20 - The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World Solved by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman
1/51 - Multiculturalism and Its Discontents by Kenan Malik
2/51 - Slade House by David Mitchell
3/51 - The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
4/51 - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
5/51 - Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights by Meredith Tax
6/51 - The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
7/51 - The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned and Constance Sublette
8/51 - Félicie by Georges Simenon
9/51 - Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė by Julija Šukys
10/51 - What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
11/51 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
12/51 - Maigret Gets Angry by Georges Simenon
13/51 - Deer Hunting With Jesus: Guns, Votes, Debt and Delusion in Redneck America by Joe Bageant
14/51 - The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
15/51 - Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina
16/51 - Mouse in Eternity by Nedra Tyre
17/51 - Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
18/51 - Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the Peripheries of Capitalism' edited by Teodor Shanin
19/51 - Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon
20/51 - Maigret's Dead Man by Georges Simenon
21/51 - Maigret's First Case by Georges Simenon
22/51 - Rednecks, Queers & Country Music by Nadine Hubbs
2/51 - Slade House by David Mitchell
3/51 - The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
4/51 - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
5/51 - Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights by Meredith Tax
6/51 - The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
7/51 - The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned and Constance Sublette
8/51 - Félicie by Georges Simenon
9/51 - Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė by Julija Šukys
10/51 - What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
11/51 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
12/51 - Maigret Gets Angry by Georges Simenon
13/51 - Deer Hunting With Jesus: Guns, Votes, Debt and Delusion in Redneck America by Joe Bageant
14/51 - The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
15/51 - Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina
16/51 - Mouse in Eternity by Nedra Tyre
17/51 - Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
18/51 - Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the Peripheries of Capitalism' edited by Teodor Shanin
19/51 - Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon
20/51 - Maigret's Dead Man by Georges Simenon
21/51 - Maigret's First Case by Georges Simenon
22/51 - Rednecks, Queers & Country Music by Nadine Hubbs
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
1/52 Autobiography by Mother Jones
2/52 Maigret and the Loner by Georges Simenon
3/52 How To Rob An Armored Car by Iain Levison (Reread)
4/52 Do I Love You? by Paul McDonald
5/52 Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds
6/52 The Chinese Detective by Michael Hardwick
7/52 Surviving Sting by Paul McDonald
8/52 Dangerous in Love by Leslie Thomas (Reread)
9/52 Dead To Me by Cath Staincliffe
2/52 Maigret and the Loner by Georges Simenon
3/52 How To Rob An Armored Car by Iain Levison (Reread)
4/52 Do I Love You? by Paul McDonald
5/52 Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds
6/52 The Chinese Detective by Michael Hardwick
7/52 Surviving Sting by Paul McDonald
8/52 Dangerous in Love by Leslie Thomas (Reread)
9/52 Dead To Me by Cath Staincliffe
1/31 Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten - Adam Fletcher
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor
3/31 Just Kids - Patti Smith
4/31 Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlask Against Natural Gas Drilling - Abrahm Lustgarten
5/31 The Cleaner - Mark Dawson
6/31 Saint Death - Mark Dawson
7/31 The Warrior Princess Submissive - Michael Makai
8/31 Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War - Class War
9/31 How to Build the Perfect Rake - Kate Harper
10/31 The Driver - Mark Dawson
11/31 UR - Stephen King
12/31 Ghosts - Mark Dawson
13/31 The Sword of God - Mark Dawson
14/31 Salvation Row - Mark Dawson
15/31 The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
16/31 1,000 yards - Mark Dawson
17/31 Tarantula - Mark Dawson
18/31 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes
19/31 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
20/31 Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
21/31 The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
22/31 Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
23/31 The Migraine Mafia - Maia Sepp
24/31 Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) - Hadley Freeman
25/31 A Pair of Jeans and other stories - Asira Shahraz
26/31 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farhad Zama
27/31 Exponential Apocalypse - Eirik Gumeny
28/31 Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads - S R Mallery
29/31 Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor
3/31 Just Kids - Patti Smith
4/31 Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlask Against Natural Gas Drilling - Abrahm Lustgarten
5/31 The Cleaner - Mark Dawson
6/31 Saint Death - Mark Dawson
7/31 The Warrior Princess Submissive - Michael Makai
8/31 Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War - Class War
9/31 How to Build the Perfect Rake - Kate Harper
10/31 The Driver - Mark Dawson
11/31 UR - Stephen King
12/31 Ghosts - Mark Dawson
13/31 The Sword of God - Mark Dawson
14/31 Salvation Row - Mark Dawson
15/31 The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
16/31 1,000 yards - Mark Dawson
17/31 Tarantula - Mark Dawson
18/31 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes
19/31 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
20/31 Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
21/31 The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
22/31 Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
23/31 The Migraine Mafia - Maia Sepp
24/31 Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) - Hadley Freeman
25/31 A Pair of Jeans and other stories - Asira Shahraz
26/31 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farhad Zama
27/31 Exponential Apocalypse - Eirik Gumeny
28/31 Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads - S R Mallery
29/31 Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
1/75 - Belinda Bauer - The Facts of Life and Death
2/75 - Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin
3/75 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
4/75 - Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone
5/75 - Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
6/75 - Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
7/75 - Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
8/75 - Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
9/75 - Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
10/75 - Iain Banks - Espedair Street
11/75 - John Steinbeck - East of Eden
12/75 - Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me
13/75 - Stephen King - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
14/75 - Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
15/75 - Kate Atkinson - When Will There be Good News?
16/75 - Stephen King - Finders Keeper
17/75 - Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
18/75 - Wendy Cope - Family Values
19/75 - Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took my Dog
20/75 - David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
21/75 - Kent Haruf - The Tie that Binds
22/75 - Val McDermid - Splinter the Silence
23/75 - Anthony Doerr - About Grace
24/75 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should all be Feminists
2/75 - Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin
3/75 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
4/75 - Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone
5/75 - Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
6/75 - Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
7/75 - Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
8/75 - Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
9/75 - Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
10/75 - Iain Banks - Espedair Street
11/75 - John Steinbeck - East of Eden
12/75 - Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me
13/75 - Stephen King - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
14/75 - Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
15/75 - Kate Atkinson - When Will There be Good News?
16/75 - Stephen King - Finders Keeper
17/75 - Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
18/75 - Wendy Cope - Family Values
19/75 - Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took my Dog
20/75 - David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
21/75 - Kent Haruf - The Tie that Binds
22/75 - Val McDermid - Splinter the Silence
23/75 - Anthony Doerr - About Grace
24/75 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should all be Feminists
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IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
1/20 - Peter Straub - Ghost Story
2/20 - Duncan Falcolner - First Into Action
3/20 - William Gibson - Neuromancer
4/20 - Paul Trynka - Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography
5/20 - Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
6/20 - Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
7/20 - Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
8/20 - Carl Sagan - Contact
2/20 - Duncan Falcolner - First Into Action
3/20 - William Gibson - Neuromancer
4/20 - Paul Trynka - Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography
5/20 - Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
6/20 - Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
7/20 - Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
8/20 - Carl Sagan - Contact
[1 ] Donna Tart- the goldfinch
[2 ] Peter hopkins- the great game: on secret service in high Asia
[3 ] Pierce Brown- Red Rising
[4 ] Pierce Brown- golden son
[ 5] Pierce Brown- Morning Star
[ 6] David liss - the devil's company
[7 ] Anthony beevor - stalingrad
[8 ] Greg bear - Hull zero three
[9 ] Ta-Nehisi Coates- between the world and me
[10 ] Viet Thanh Nguyen - The sympathiser
[ 11] Frank Herbert - dune
[ 12] B. Travens- the death ship
[13 ] Marek edelman - the ghetto fights
[ 14] Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
[ 15] cormac Mccarthy - blood meridian
The last two are my current reading and audiobooks respectively. I reckon on 30 this year as a target, hoping for 35.
[2 ] Peter hopkins- the great game: on secret service in high Asia
[3 ] Pierce Brown- Red Rising
[4 ] Pierce Brown- golden son
[ 5] Pierce Brown- Morning Star
[ 6] David liss - the devil's company
[7 ] Anthony beevor - stalingrad
[8 ] Greg bear - Hull zero three
[9 ] Ta-Nehisi Coates- between the world and me
[10 ] Viet Thanh Nguyen - The sympathiser
[ 11] Frank Herbert - dune
[ 12] B. Travens- the death ship
[13 ] Marek edelman - the ghetto fights
[ 14] Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
[ 15] cormac Mccarthy - blood meridian
The last two are my current reading and audiobooks respectively. I reckon on 30 this year as a target, hoping for 35.
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5 books I've owned more than 3 years -8 - 9 - 10 -15 - 23 - 24-
5 books i buy during the year -17 -29 -75 - 77 -
5 books that are 2 inch thick hardbacks that challenge me to look at them -
5 local history books -13 - 66 - 67 - 68 -
5 local fiction books -
5 fiction books not set within anglo/anglicised culture -
5 books that are about teaching myself new skills -
5 biogs/autobiogs - 25 -
5 translated fiction books -
5 of himself's books -12 - 72 - 79
10 pre 20th century fiction books -16 -20 - 28 -
10 books I'd need for the lit review when i get off my arse and pick the bloody project -21 - 32 - 38 - 76
5 books for the other thing I've got planned -14 - 26 - 27 -
10 books that i got the idea to read on this thread (or last years) -4 - 5- 18 -
5 non fiction books that aren't history - 1- 2- 78 - 71 - 63
10 audio-books -3 - 11 - 43 - 44 - 45 -
1. Lynne Truss - eats shoots and leaves.
2. tansy Hoskins - stitched up
3. marie kondo- the magic art of tidying up
4. marie brennan - a natural history of dragons
5. joe abercrombie - half a war
6. octavia butler - parable of the sower
7. octavia butler - parable of the talents
8. cj cherryh - merchanters luck
9. cj cherryh - rimrunners
10. cj cherryh - cuckoo's egg
11. neal stevenson - cryptonomicon
12. paul wady - guerilla aspies
13. atkinson - mining sites in cornwall
14. margaret fuller - women in the 19th century
15. peter f hamilton - fallen dragon
16. harriet beecher stowe - uncle toms cabin
17. alice walker - the colour purple
18. marie brennan - the tropic of serpents
19. gail dines - pornland
20. jane austen - pride and prejudice
21. jeffrey klaehn - filtering the news
22. tyler stoddard smith - whore stories
23. robin hobb -sharman's crossing
24. robin hobb - forrest mage
25. amy poehlr - yes please
26. selma james - strangers and sisters
27. edmond and flemming - all work and no pay
28. nathaniel hawthorne - the scarlet letter
29. robin hobb - renegade's magic
30. helen rogers - green gone wrong
31.james meek - private island
32. daniel trilling - bloody nasty people
33. will bunch - the backlash
34. juliet jaques - trans
35. ian banks - canal dreams
36. ian banks - song of stone
37. terry pratchett - the carpet people
38. nancy matthews - confronting rape
39. gareth pierce - dispa5tches from the dark side
40. peter and mari jo buhle - it started in wisconsin
41. peter cann - adoption
42. robert weitzer - sex for sale
43. virginia woolf - orlando
44. WEB Du bois - the souls of black folk
45. thomas paine - common sence
46. iain banks - whit
47. iain banks - look to windward
48. iain banks - the business
49. iain banks - the crow road
50. christine delpny - seperate and dominate
51. eyal weizman - the least of all possible evils
52. michele wallace - black macho and the myth of the superwoman
53. virginia woolf - a room of one's own
54. iain banks - the wuarry
55. pratchet and baxter - the long mars
56. iain banks - the wasp factory
57. juliet mitchell - woman's estate
58. alain badiou - the rebirth of history
59. p cook - the othe side of dv
60. sterba and farrel - does feminism descriminate against men
61. cj cherryh - bothers of earth
62. cj cherryh - voyager in the night
63. neal stevenson - in the beginning...
64. iain banks - matter
65. perry anderson - the indian ideaology
66. jason semmens - the witch of the west
67. patten people - e lamorna kerr
68. a kent - feminism, literature and women writers in corwall
69. j hay - the origin of liberal welfare reforms
70. iain banks - surface detail
71. anabel hernandez - narcoland
72. john holmes - porn king
73. richard morgan - broken angels
74. richard morgan - woken furies
75. octavia butler - fledgeling
76. imogen tyler - revolting subjects
77. peter f hamilton - the abyss beyond dreams
78. rachael lloyd - girls like us
79. motley crue - the dirt
5 books i buy during the year -17 -29 -75 - 77 -
5 books that are 2 inch thick hardbacks that challenge me to look at them -
5 local history books -13 - 66 - 67 - 68 -
5 local fiction books -
5 fiction books not set within anglo/anglicised culture -
5 books that are about teaching myself new skills -
5 biogs/autobiogs - 25 -
5 translated fiction books -
5 of himself's books -12 - 72 - 79
10 pre 20th century fiction books -16 -20 - 28 -
10 books I'd need for the lit review when i get off my arse and pick the bloody project -21 - 32 - 38 - 76
5 books for the other thing I've got planned -14 - 26 - 27 -
10 books that i got the idea to read on this thread (or last years) -4 - 5- 18 -
5 non fiction books that aren't history - 1- 2- 78 - 71 - 63
10 audio-books -3 - 11 - 43 - 44 - 45 -
1. Lynne Truss - eats shoots and leaves.
2. tansy Hoskins - stitched up
3. marie kondo- the magic art of tidying up
4. marie brennan - a natural history of dragons
5. joe abercrombie - half a war
6. octavia butler - parable of the sower
7. octavia butler - parable of the talents
8. cj cherryh - merchanters luck
9. cj cherryh - rimrunners
10. cj cherryh - cuckoo's egg
11. neal stevenson - cryptonomicon
12. paul wady - guerilla aspies
13. atkinson - mining sites in cornwall
14. margaret fuller - women in the 19th century
15. peter f hamilton - fallen dragon
16. harriet beecher stowe - uncle toms cabin
17. alice walker - the colour purple
18. marie brennan - the tropic of serpents
19. gail dines - pornland
20. jane austen - pride and prejudice
21. jeffrey klaehn - filtering the news
22. tyler stoddard smith - whore stories
23. robin hobb -sharman's crossing
24. robin hobb - forrest mage
25. amy poehlr - yes please
26. selma james - strangers and sisters
27. edmond and flemming - all work and no pay
28. nathaniel hawthorne - the scarlet letter
29. robin hobb - renegade's magic
30. helen rogers - green gone wrong
31.james meek - private island
32. daniel trilling - bloody nasty people
33. will bunch - the backlash
34. juliet jaques - trans
35. ian banks - canal dreams
36. ian banks - song of stone
37. terry pratchett - the carpet people
38. nancy matthews - confronting rape
39. gareth pierce - dispa5tches from the dark side
40. peter and mari jo buhle - it started in wisconsin
41. peter cann - adoption
42. robert weitzer - sex for sale
43. virginia woolf - orlando
44. WEB Du bois - the souls of black folk
45. thomas paine - common sence
46. iain banks - whit
47. iain banks - look to windward
48. iain banks - the business
49. iain banks - the crow road
50. christine delpny - seperate and dominate
51. eyal weizman - the least of all possible evils
52. michele wallace - black macho and the myth of the superwoman
53. virginia woolf - a room of one's own
54. iain banks - the wuarry
55. pratchet and baxter - the long mars
56. iain banks - the wasp factory
57. juliet mitchell - woman's estate
58. alain badiou - the rebirth of history
59. p cook - the othe side of dv
60. sterba and farrel - does feminism descriminate against men
61. cj cherryh - bothers of earth
62. cj cherryh - voyager in the night
63. neal stevenson - in the beginning...
64. iain banks - matter
65. perry anderson - the indian ideaology
66. jason semmens - the witch of the west
67. patten people - e lamorna kerr
68. a kent - feminism, literature and women writers in corwall
69. j hay - the origin of liberal welfare reforms
70. iain banks - surface detail
71. anabel hernandez - narcoland
72. john holmes - porn king
73. richard morgan - broken angels
74. richard morgan - woken furies
75. octavia butler - fledgeling
76. imogen tyler - revolting subjects
77. peter f hamilton - the abyss beyond dreams
78. rachael lloyd - girls like us
79. motley crue - the dirt
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
1/75 - Belinda Bauer - The Facts of Life and Death
2/75 - Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin
3/75 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
4/75 - Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone
5/75 - Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
6/75 - Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
7/75 - Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
8/75 - Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
9/75 - Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
10/75 - Iain Banks - Espedair Street
11/75 - John Steinbeck - East of Eden
12/75 - Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me
13/75 - Stephen King - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
14/75 - Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
15/75 - Kate Atkinson - When Will There be Good News?
16/75 - Stephen King - Finders Keeper
17/75 - Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
18/75 - Wendy Cope - Family Values
19/75 - Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took my Dog
20/75 - David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
21/75 - Kent Haruf - The Tie that Binds
22/75 - Val McDermid - Splinter the Silence
23/75 - Anthony Doerr - About Grace
24/75 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should all be Feminists
25/75 - Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
2/75 - Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin
3/75 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
4/75 - Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone
5/75 - Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
6/75 - Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
7/75 - Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
8/75 - Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
9/75 - Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
10/75 - Iain Banks - Espedair Street
11/75 - John Steinbeck - East of Eden
12/75 - Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me
13/75 - Stephen King - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
14/75 - Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
15/75 - Kate Atkinson - When Will There be Good News?
16/75 - Stephen King - Finders Keeper
17/75 - Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
18/75 - Wendy Cope - Family Values
19/75 - Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took my Dog
20/75 - David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
21/75 - Kent Haruf - The Tie that Binds
22/75 - Val McDermid - Splinter the Silence
23/75 - Anthony Doerr - About Grace
24/75 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should all be Feminists
25/75 - Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
20/50 ursula le guin, 'a wizard of earthsea'
21/50 ursula le guin, 'the tombs of atuan'
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
What's the Wizard Of Earthsea like? I've had it on my shelf forever.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's very good, i think you'd enjoy it. give it a go.
Worth a go. I think you'll like Ogion and Vetch, as well as the friction between Ged and Jasper.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/60 The Lost Starship - Vaughn Heppner.
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
20/60 Thin Air - Ann Cleeves
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
20/60 Thin Air - Ann Cleeves
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Its a classic. Give it a try.
1/51 - Multiculturalism and Its Discontents by Kenan Malik
2/51 - Slade House by David Mitchell
3/51 - The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
4/51 - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
5/51 - Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights by Meredith Tax
6/51 - The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
7/51 - The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned and Constance Sublette
8/51 - Félicie by Georges Simenon
9/51 - Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė by Julija Šukys
10/51 - What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
11/51 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
12/51 - Maigret Gets Angry by Georges Simenon
13/51 - Deer Hunting With Jesus: Guns, Votes, Debt and Delusion in Redneck America by Joe Bageant
14/51 - The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
15/51 - Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina
16/51 - Mouse in Eternity by Nedra Tyre
17/51 - Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
18/51 - Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the Peripheries of Capitalism' edited by Teodor Shanin
19/51 - Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon
20/51 - Maigret's Dead Man by Georges Simenon
21/51 - Maigret's First Case by Georges Simenon
22/51 - Rednecks, Queers & Country Music by Nadine Hubbs
23/51 - New Hope for the Dead by Charles Willeford
24/51 - The 39 Steps by John Buchan
25/51 - What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
26/51 - Light Reading by Aliya Whiteley
2/51 - Slade House by David Mitchell
3/51 - The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
4/51 - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
5/51 - Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights by Meredith Tax
6/51 - The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
7/51 - The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned and Constance Sublette
8/51 - Félicie by Georges Simenon
9/51 - Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė by Julija Šukys
10/51 - What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
11/51 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
12/51 - Maigret Gets Angry by Georges Simenon
13/51 - Deer Hunting With Jesus: Guns, Votes, Debt and Delusion in Redneck America by Joe Bageant
14/51 - The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
15/51 - Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina
16/51 - Mouse in Eternity by Nedra Tyre
17/51 - Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
18/51 - Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the Peripheries of Capitalism' edited by Teodor Shanin
19/51 - Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon
20/51 - Maigret's Dead Man by Georges Simenon
21/51 - Maigret's First Case by Georges Simenon
22/51 - Rednecks, Queers & Country Music by Nadine Hubbs
23/51 - New Hope for the Dead by Charles Willeford
24/51 - The 39 Steps by John Buchan
25/51 - What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
26/51 - Light Reading by Aliya Whiteley
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
1/35 Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healy
2/35 Demetia Essentials – Jan Hall
3/35 The Moonlit Garden – Corina Bomann
4/35 The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring - Hugh Marriot
5/35 Underground London: Travels beneath the city streets - Stephen Smith
6/35 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
7/35 In the Winter Dark - Tim Winton
8/35 Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
9/35 The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
2/35 Demetia Essentials – Jan Hall
3/35 The Moonlit Garden – Corina Bomann
4/35 The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring - Hugh Marriot
5/35 Underground London: Travels beneath the city streets - Stephen Smith
6/35 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
7/35 In the Winter Dark - Tim Winton
8/35 Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
9/35 The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
I notice a lot of you tend to read a few by the same author in a row. Are they books in a series, or do you just get the bug for that particular author?
I generally try and mix my reading up a little - maybe a sci-fi, then general fiction, then a non-fiction, occasionally a "trickier" or long read (although none yet this year)
I generally try and mix my reading up a little - maybe a sci-fi, then general fiction, then a non-fiction, occasionally a "trickier" or long read (although none yet this year)
1/31 Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten - Adam Fletcher
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor
3/31 Just Kids - Patti Smith
4/31 Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling - Abrahm Lustgarten
5/31 The Cleaner - Mark Dawson
6/31 Saint Death - Mark Dawson
7/31 The Warrior Princess Submissive - Michael Makai
8/31 Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War - Class War
9/31 How to Build the Perfect Rake - Kate Harper
10/31 The Driver - Mark Dawson
11/31 UR - Stephen King
12/31 Ghosts - Mark Dawson
13/31 The Sword of God - Mark Dawson
14/31 Salvation Row - Mark Dawson
15/31 The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
16/31 1,000 yards - Mark Dawson
17/31 Tarantula - Mark Dawson
18/31 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes
19/31 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
20/31 Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
21/31 The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
22/31 Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
23/31 The Migraine Mafia - Maia Sepp
24/31 Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) - Hadley Freeman
25/31 A Pair of Jeans and other stories - Asira Shahraz
26/31 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farhad Zama
27/31 Exponential Apocalypse - Eirik Gumeny
28/31 Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads - S R Mallery
29/31 Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
30/31 Gone to ground - Marie Jalowicz Simon
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor
3/31 Just Kids - Patti Smith
4/31 Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling - Abrahm Lustgarten
5/31 The Cleaner - Mark Dawson
6/31 Saint Death - Mark Dawson
7/31 The Warrior Princess Submissive - Michael Makai
8/31 Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War - Class War
9/31 How to Build the Perfect Rake - Kate Harper
10/31 The Driver - Mark Dawson
11/31 UR - Stephen King
12/31 Ghosts - Mark Dawson
13/31 The Sword of God - Mark Dawson
14/31 Salvation Row - Mark Dawson
15/31 The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
16/31 1,000 yards - Mark Dawson
17/31 Tarantula - Mark Dawson
18/31 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes
19/31 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
20/31 Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
21/31 The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
22/31 Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
23/31 The Migraine Mafia - Maia Sepp
24/31 Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) - Hadley Freeman
25/31 A Pair of Jeans and other stories - Asira Shahraz
26/31 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farhad Zama
27/31 Exponential Apocalypse - Eirik Gumeny
28/31 Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads - S R Mallery
29/31 Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
30/31 Gone to ground - Marie Jalowicz Simon
The ones by Mark Dawson were parts of a series, as were the two by Deborah Harkness (I read the first of that trilogy a year or more ago, but could remember enough of it that I didn't need to reread it before continuing with the later two).
crossthebreeze
Well-Known Member
1/12 - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
2/12 - Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
3/12 - Eric by Shaun Tan
4/12 - Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman
5/12 - The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
6/12 - The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
7/12 - Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
8/12 - Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning
This is about the world electrical recording boom of 1925 -1930, and the new vernacular and urban musics that were recorded in port towns. It covers the social and economic factors in the development of these musics, the effect that recording and circulation of 78s had on the development many types of music covered - jazz, blues, tango, samba, huangse yinyue, kroncong, flamenco, fado, highlife, marabi and tarab to name just some. I found it really interesting, but a bit dry at times - the discography and spotify playlist that accompanied the book helped a lot, but it could really have done with some illustrations, and some added description to get more of a feel for the bars, cafes, and theatres these musics came from, and the personalities of the musicians involved (Denning does do this in the few places - taking from a novel about african musicians in Paris, and quoting from the calypso singer Attila the Hun, but more of this kind of material would have been good).
2/12 - Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
3/12 - Eric by Shaun Tan
4/12 - Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman
5/12 - The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
6/12 - The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
7/12 - Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
8/12 - Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning
This is about the world electrical recording boom of 1925 -1930, and the new vernacular and urban musics that were recorded in port towns. It covers the social and economic factors in the development of these musics, the effect that recording and circulation of 78s had on the development many types of music covered - jazz, blues, tango, samba, huangse yinyue, kroncong, flamenco, fado, highlife, marabi and tarab to name just some. I found it really interesting, but a bit dry at times - the discography and spotify playlist that accompanied the book helped a lot, but it could really have done with some illustrations, and some added description to get more of a feel for the bars, cafes, and theatres these musics came from, and the personalities of the musicians involved (Denning does do this in the few places - taking from a novel about african musicians in Paris, and quoting from the calypso singer Attila the Hun, but more of this kind of material would have been good).
crossthebreeze
Well-Known Member
Its really good. I'd recommend the whole Earthsea series (read in order) - A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, the short story collection Tales from Earthsea, and The Other Wind. You really get to see the characters develop and mature over their lifetimes. Le Guin's world-building is fantastic - Earthsea is very human, and very complete. What's really interesting is how you can chart the developments of Le Guin's feminist politics through the book - but without them being crassly inserted, and the revelations about the Earthsea world that this enables - for Ged and the other characters - and for the reader - are quite brilliant.
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wobbly
a bit of both. often, i'll pick up a book by an author and then download a few of their other books to my kindle. other times i'll deliberately work through one series.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
If I like the 1st of the series and they are cheap on Kindle then I will plough through them . If the 1st is shit I lose interest.
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