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Not really. I wanted to get a bit more insight but it was quite a dull read. I like Colin Caffell so far in the TV drama but I found the real Colin disappointing. He writes an awful lot about himself. There are are pages and pages of him seeing psychics and the like. I buy kindle books otherwise I'd have sent it to you but you're not missing much if you don't buy it. Unless you want to know a LOT more about Colin Caffel.
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BoatieBird
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Good idea.
I've read quite a few books that I've come across from looking at what you've read and enjoyed them all so far.
BoatieBird
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Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
1/30. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read)
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read)
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Never read it
should I?
Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
1/30. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
It depends on whether you like period novels or not - and in particular whether you like Austen or not. From my perspective, it was a very good piece of work, if not quite up there with Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion. It's probably the most overtly cynical of Austen's novels and has many dreadful characters to recommend it. There can be a little confusion over characters with similar names, but it kept my interest right to the very end.
I'd say give it a go, for sure.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
Never read it
It depends on whether you like period novels or not - and in particular whether you like Austen or not. From my perspective, it was a very good piece of work, if not quite up there with Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion. It's probably the most overtly cynical of Austen's novels and has many dreadful characters to recommend it. There can be a little confusion over characters with similar names, but it kept my interest right to the very end.
I'd say give it a go, for sure.
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
• 1/52: Fast Times And Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History Of The 80s Teen Movie
• 2/52: Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Anymore)
• 3/52: You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact On A Generation
• 4/52: Irregular Army
• 5/52: Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East by Mike de Seve and Daniel Burwen - an interesting but not wholly satisfying graphic novel take on the CIA/MI6 plot to unseat Mosaddegh from Iran after he nationalised the oil industry. The artwork by Burwen just isn’t strong or distinctive enough, and it lacks on-point storytelling; and De Seve’s story structure undermines any sense of drama until the very end and the actual coup. The shift to the point of view of a (fictionalised?) young Company man, part of Kermit Roosevelt’s team on the ground in Tehran, helps anchor the story, but is too little too late, coming after so much meandering scene-setting. Does not compare well to Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz’s Brought To Light: Shadowplay - The Secret Team, which told the story of 30 years of CIA covert ops from the perspective of a cynical, exhausted American eagle.
• 6/52: Judgment On Gotham by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Simon Bisley - even when it came out in 1991 this Judge Dredd/Batman crossover was transparently cash-in nonsense, but it was still fun, and full-on painted Bizness. Plotwise, it’s thin: Judge Death escapes to Gotham via a dimension jump, teams up with Scarecrow, and causes mayhem at a heavy metal concert. The promised team-up never happens - the Caped Crusader actually hooks up with Cass Anderson, with Ol’ Stony Face angrily pursuing them; Mean Machine is in the mix too. Only pulled it off the shelf because the 5yo wanted to read it - and he loved it, particularly when Death is hit by Scarecrow’s ‘fear spray’ and starts hallucinating teddy bears and cuddly unicorns
• 2/52: Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Anymore)
• 3/52: You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact On A Generation
• 4/52: Irregular Army
• 5/52: Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup that Remade the Middle East by Mike de Seve and Daniel Burwen - an interesting but not wholly satisfying graphic novel take on the CIA/MI6 plot to unseat Mosaddegh from Iran after he nationalised the oil industry. The artwork by Burwen just isn’t strong or distinctive enough, and it lacks on-point storytelling; and De Seve’s story structure undermines any sense of drama until the very end and the actual coup. The shift to the point of view of a (fictionalised?) young Company man, part of Kermit Roosevelt’s team on the ground in Tehran, helps anchor the story, but is too little too late, coming after so much meandering scene-setting. Does not compare well to Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz’s Brought To Light: Shadowplay - The Secret Team, which told the story of 30 years of CIA covert ops from the perspective of a cynical, exhausted American eagle.
• 6/52: Judgment On Gotham by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Simon Bisley - even when it came out in 1991 this Judge Dredd/Batman crossover was transparently cash-in nonsense, but it was still fun, and full-on painted Bizness. Plotwise, it’s thin: Judge Death escapes to Gotham via a dimension jump, teams up with Scarecrow, and causes mayhem at a heavy metal concert. The promised team-up never happens - the Caped Crusader actually hooks up with Cass Anderson, with Ol’ Stony Face angrily pursuing them; Mean Machine is in the mix too. Only pulled it off the shelf because the 5yo wanted to read it - and he loved it, particularly when Death is hit by Scarecrow’s ‘fear spray’ and starts hallucinating teddy bears and cuddly unicorns
1/40 50 Ways to Wear a Scarf - Lauren Friedman. Yes I know, but it's a hard back book and I read it cover to cover.
2/40 The house on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier
3/40 Afternoon of a Good Woman - Nina Bawden
4/40 Familia Passions - Nina Bawden
5/40 Spiderweb - Penelope Lively (5 books in 10 days is a lot for me but I've spent an awful lot of time hanging around in hospitals + nothing much on the telly.
6/40 A Little Love, A Little Learning - Nina Bawden
7/40 The Day That Never Comes - Caimh McDonnell
8/40 In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders - Colin Caffell
9/40 A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
2/40 The house on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier
3/40 Afternoon of a Good Woman - Nina Bawden
4/40 Familia Passions - Nina Bawden
5/40 Spiderweb - Penelope Lively (5 books in 10 days is a lot for me but I've spent an awful lot of time hanging around in hospitals + nothing much on the telly.
6/40 A Little Love, A Little Learning - Nina Bawden
7/40 The Day That Never Comes - Caimh McDonnell
8/40 In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders - Colin Caffell
9/40 A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
1/52 Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage
2/52 Norman Doidge - The Brain That Changes Itself
3/52 Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister
4/52 Mackenzie Wark - Capital is Dead
5/52 Peter Kinderman - A Manifesto for Mental Health
6/52 China Mieville - The Last Days of New Paris
2/52 Norman Doidge - The Brain That Changes Itself
3/52 Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister
4/52 Mackenzie Wark - Capital is Dead
5/52 Peter Kinderman - A Manifesto for Mental Health
6/52 China Mieville - The Last Days of New Paris
Hollis
bloody furious
Based on Pickman's specific rules, despite finally finishing 'A Thousand Spendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini, I will be finishing the month on a big fat zero. This ain't gonna go well.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Whoa there. If you finished it this year it counts as read this year.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
4) Jo nesbo, knife
Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
1/30. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/75 The Girl Who Lived Twice - David Lagercrantz
2/75 Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls
3/75 Mortal Prey - John Sandford
4/75 The Night Fire - Michael Connelly
5/75 Borderlands - L J Ross
6/75 Three Weeks to say goodbye - C J Box
7/75 Blue Heaven - C J Box
8/75 Hard Shot - J B Turner
2/75 Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls
3/75 Mortal Prey - John Sandford
4/75 The Night Fire - Michael Connelly
5/75 Borderlands - L J Ross
6/75 Three Weeks to say goodbye - C J Box
7/75 Blue Heaven - C J Box
8/75 Hard Shot - J B Turner
1. Suttree - Cormac Mccarthy
2. The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
3. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
4. Exhalation - Ted Chiang
5. The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
6. Birds Without Wings - Louis de Berniere
7. The Peripheral - William Gibson
Christ- finally finished Suttree last night. It's taken months of my time. Best friend rated it as his favourite book. I could take it or leave it, and that's the last Mccarthy book I'm reading (I've read The Road and Blood Meridian. Bleak and ultimately unfulfilling.
2. The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
3. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
4. Exhalation - Ted Chiang
5. The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
6. Birds Without Wings - Louis de Berniere
7. The Peripheral - William Gibson
Christ- finally finished Suttree last night. It's taken months of my time. Best friend rated it as his favourite book. I could take it or leave it, and that's the last Mccarthy book I'm reading (I've read The Road and Blood Meridian. Bleak and ultimately unfulfilling.
1/40 50 Ways to Wear a Scarf - Lauren Friedman. Yes I know, but it's a hard back book and I read it cover to cover.
2/40 The house on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier
3/40 Afternoon of a Good Woman - Nina Bawden
4/40 Familia Passions - Nina Bawden
5/40 Spiderweb - Penelope Lively (5 books in 10 days is a lot for me but I've spent an awful lot of time hanging around in hospitals + nothing much on the telly.
6/40 A Little Love, A Little Learning - Nina Bawden
7/40 The Day That Never Comes - Caimh McDonnell
8/40 In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders - Colin Caffell
9/40 A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
10/40 Let's Kill Uncle - Rohan O'Grady
2/40 The house on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier
3/40 Afternoon of a Good Woman - Nina Bawden
4/40 Familia Passions - Nina Bawden
5/40 Spiderweb - Penelope Lively (5 books in 10 days is a lot for me but I've spent an awful lot of time hanging around in hospitals + nothing much on the telly.
6/40 A Little Love, A Little Learning - Nina Bawden
7/40 The Day That Never Comes - Caimh McDonnell
8/40 In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders - Colin Caffell
9/40 A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
10/40 Let's Kill Uncle - Rohan O'Grady
pennimania
still dre and drooling
1. The Generous Earth – Philip Oyler
2. Excitements at the Chalet School
3.The New Mistress at the Chalet School
4. Betty: the story of Betty MacDonald - Anne Wellman
5. The Coming of Age of the Chalet School - Elinor Brent Dyer
and
6. The Chalet School and Richenda - “ “ “
7. Trials for the Chalet School - “ “ “
8. We Took to the Woods – Louise Rich Dickinson
2. Excitements at the Chalet School
3.The New Mistress at the Chalet School
4. Betty: the story of Betty MacDonald - Anne Wellman
5. The Coming of Age of the Chalet School - Elinor Brent Dyer
and
6. The Chalet School and Richenda - “ “ “
7. Trials for the Chalet School - “ “ “
8. We Took to the Woods – Louise Rich Dickinson
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
1/20 - The Good Immigrant - ed Nikesh Shukla
2/20 - The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
4/20 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
5/20 - Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
(both made me cry!)
2/20 - The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
4/20 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
5/20 - Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
(both made me cry!)
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ska invita
back on the other side
This really grabbed me from the off. Set on a small fictional Caribbean island, its a love story told with archetypal but well rounded characters and a sprinkling of magical realism, all for the ultimate purpose of exploring Caribbean history. It had a well told yarn feel about it. Very well realised world. Patois was used expertly. The love story aspects also sincere and moving even.
She's written a fair few books before this one, and there's something very accomplished about it without at all being showy. I expect it won't get a particularly good reaction from the literati, in a way her earlier books have, as there's perhaps something a little ..... not sure the word....hokey about it. Thats not it, but I can imagine people looking down on it a bit.
But I think there's something very pure at the heart of this book and tapping into as a reader felt great.
She's written a fair few books before this one, and there's something very accomplished about it without at all being showy. I expect it won't get a particularly good reaction from the literati, in a way her earlier books have, as there's perhaps something a little ..... not sure the word....hokey about it. Thats not it, but I can imagine people looking down on it a bit.
But I think there's something very pure at the heart of this book and tapping into as a reader felt great.
Picked this up as it was the only other book of Monique's in print. Could've bought a second hand one I guess, but the subject piqued my interest. Its a based-on-real events piece of historical fiction, based on the 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad by a brotherhood of (to some extent) 'Islamic' rebels.
Its a great piece of work I think. Very well researched, strong on detail, without losing focus on the action. But above all its an attempt to insert and centre humanity into the event. Both the rebels and the hostages are all explored for their motivations, emotions and life experiences. She is sympathetic to everyone involved, and ultimately to the islands past and future as a whole.
I haven't explored it fully but it looks like this was a major moment in Trinidadian history. It was a failed coup, but it sent shockwaves. I wonder how her telling would go down amongst Trinidadians.
Overall she has trodden carefully, keeping critical of the coup attempt, and particularly the death and wider suffering it created, but maintaining a sympathy for those involved and their motivations.
The majority of it is claustrophobicly set within the besieged parliamentary palace, dovetailed with a little before and after, and I think having made it through to the end the story will stay with me, blending in as a lived memory.
Its a great piece of work I think. Very well researched, strong on detail, without losing focus on the action. But above all its an attempt to insert and centre humanity into the event. Both the rebels and the hostages are all explored for their motivations, emotions and life experiences. She is sympathetic to everyone involved, and ultimately to the islands past and future as a whole.
I haven't explored it fully but it looks like this was a major moment in Trinidadian history. It was a failed coup, but it sent shockwaves. I wonder how her telling would go down amongst Trinidadians.
Overall she has trodden carefully, keeping critical of the coup attempt, and particularly the death and wider suffering it created, but maintaining a sympathy for those involved and their motivations.
The majority of it is claustrophobicly set within the besieged parliamentary palace, dovetailed with a little before and after, and I think having made it through to the end the story will stay with me, blending in as a lived memory.
Picked this up on a whim after reading that it was the first novel ever published in English by a woman from Equatorial Guinea - sounded like an interesting voice! Turns out its also about being a young lesbian in the highly traditional and repressive traditional local culture.
Its unusual writing compared to Western fiction: very brief, very functional, with little dwelling - moves on quickly from scene to scene - and my guess was much of this is a stylistic thing based on Guinean storytelling styles. As a result its a short read, gets right to the point, and gets a lot of information across, both personal and about the depressing cultural norms.
And i found it captivating. Despite what can only be described as sad subject matter, it felt so positive to hear her voice, and to share in the experience. The book is banned in Equatorial Guinea, which says it all. It comes across as brave, direct, honest and pure. All power
Its unusual writing compared to Western fiction: very brief, very functional, with little dwelling - moves on quickly from scene to scene - and my guess was much of this is a stylistic thing based on Guinean storytelling styles. As a result its a short read, gets right to the point, and gets a lot of information across, both personal and about the depressing cultural norms.
And i found it captivating. Despite what can only be described as sad subject matter, it felt so positive to hear her voice, and to share in the experience. The book is banned in Equatorial Guinea, which says it all. It comes across as brave, direct, honest and pure. All power
A very competent and precise writer/journalist. Easy reading. The book is a reportage-style snapshot of the contemporary active left, and the state of the nation more broadly. He touches on many or most of the key spots that seem most relevant in 2019. But ultimately the political message isn't particularly challenging. Its all very Sunday Supplement, Guardian venturing out of the office.
Occasionally a critical question is asked, but anything resembling a deeper analysis or even musing is missing. Though I guess that depends on your starting point. It's published by Bodley Head (Penguin) and I think they're going for a much wider audience. But there's not really anything new here for me.
On the plus side I guess he's trying to raise the profile of what resistance there is.
Occasionally a critical question is asked, but anything resembling a deeper analysis or even musing is missing. Though I guess that depends on your starting point. It's published by Bodley Head (Penguin) and I think they're going for a much wider audience. But there's not really anything new here for me.
On the plus side I guess he's trying to raise the profile of what resistance there is.
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neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
1/24 The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
2/24 Excalibur - Bernard Cornwell
2/24 Excalibur - Bernard Cornwell
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
- 7/52: The Jungle Is Neutral by F Spencer Chapman - classic wartime memoir of a British adventurer and army officer who disappeared into the jungles of Malaya to organise stay-behind units and liaise with local Malay, Chinese and Sekai people in the weeks before the fall of Singapore. He was to stay for nearly four years, much of it whilst a fugitive hunted by Japanese occupation forces. He was twice captured, and twice escaped; repeatedly suffered from dysentery, beri-beri, malaria and a dozen other tropical ailments; was shot twice; and ultimately picked up from the coast by submarine, only to be dropped back into the interior by parachute a few weeks later. A fascinating read.
Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
1/30. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
17/30. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
17/30. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
5/30 Nanni Balestrini - We Want Everything: The novel of Italy’s hot autumn
Pretty cool - autonomism for dummies.
Pretty cool - autonomism for dummies.
Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
1/30. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
17/30. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
18/30. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle.
I honestly hadn't expected to read much by this time - this huge amount of reading is due to the fact that my circumstances have changed radically this month and as a result, I have much more time flat on my back with little to do... I'll likely up my target total and maybe add a "biggie" sub-target.
2/30. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/30. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/30. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/30. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/30. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/30. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/30. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/30. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/30. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/30. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/30. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
17/30. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
18/30. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle.
I honestly hadn't expected to read much by this time - this huge amount of reading is due to the fact that my circumstances have changed radically this month and as a result, I have much more time flat on my back with little to do... I'll likely up my target total and maybe add a "biggie" sub-target.
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