Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Finally finished Mieville's The Scar. Moved onto Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird, which so far is very engaging.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Steel Icarus
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'Waging Heavy Peace' Neil Young's autobiography. Very enjoyable - not your usual rock biog, this, long sections concern his model train collection.
I've just yesterday bought that Voley - got a couple of books to read before I get stuck into it, though.
Voley
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I'm enjoying it. Bit I've just read is more what you'd expect - a good bit on how 'Like A Hurricane' was recorded interspersed with anecdotes of druggy stuff in the 70's - but he'll still wander off into how his electric car burnt down a warehouse and stuff. I like his meandering digressions; there's a review on the cover that likens it to Crazy Horse jamming and that rings true. Good book.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Just this moment finished When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson. Love everything she writes but this was particularly good, the best of the Jackson Brodie novels IMO.
RebeccaLoi22
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Napoleon Hill - "Think and Grow Rich".
Very interesting and helpful!
Very interesting and helpful!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Just finished "Getting By" by Liza MacKenzie, and "Dreams of G-ds and Monsters" by Laini Taylor, and have started "Strange Fruit" by Kenan Malik.
Halfway through 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed' by Jon Ronson. Really quite entertaining and thought-provoking. It was on the New Books shelf in the library, where I go to first, cos it's laden in Catherine fucking Cookson and the like that place.
Anyway, yeh - worth a read.
Anyway, yeh - worth a read.
I'm reading One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson. Covers the Lindbergh solo flight across the Atlantic, of which I know little and the incredible season by baseball player Babe Ruth, of which I know a bit. Lots of other fascinating stuff in usual Bryson style. Enjoying very much.
Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew, by Bernard Hare. It occurred to me that this book might shock people who hadn't already been embroiled in most of what's going on, but to me, it reads like my youth. Urban is even the spit of a lad called Billy I used to know - right down to the glued-up speaking-in-tongues thing. I'm finding Bernard Hare's honesty both refreshing and gobsmacking by turn. Really enjoying reading this, gut-wrenching as some of it is.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
by Nicholas Carr
Book arguing that the plasticity of our brains is falling victim to the way we consume information on the internet - it's rewiring us and making us think differently leaving us unable to finish books and stuff. Ooh, look, a picture of a cat with a bowtie....
It's actually very compelling, but I am tempted to leave a review on Amazon: "tl;dr"
by Nicholas Carr
Book arguing that the plasticity of our brains is falling victim to the way we consume information on the internet - it's rewiring us and making us think differently leaving us unable to finish books and stuff. Ooh, look, a picture of a cat with a bowtie....
It's actually very compelling, but I am tempted to leave a review on Amazon: "tl;dr"
SovietArmy
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Mo Yan "Pow" so far is good.
I read that ages ago and loved it. Couldn't help but agree with loads of it.
"tl;dr" - Hehe
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Satantango - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Loving this so far, brilliant writing. Densely written with page long sentences of confusion, darkly bureaucratic officiousness and paranoia which is quite disorientating but it also has a seam of dark humour running through the bleakness.
Loving this so far, brilliant writing. Densely written with page long sentences of confusion, darkly bureaucratic officiousness and paranoia which is quite disorientating but it also has a seam of dark humour running through the bleakness.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Family and Kinship in East London by Michael Young & Peter Wilmott.
The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict by Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron & Michael Young.
re-reading, as parts of them are interesting from a gentrification perspective.
The Life & Times of Little Richard by Charles White.
The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict by Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron & Michael Young.
re-reading, as parts of them are interesting from a gentrification perspective.
The Life & Times of Little Richard by Charles White.
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth. Reminds me of a cross between Hild and Riddley Walker so far.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've just started that! Takes some time to work our what some words mean, but worth the effort. What's Hild?
weltweit
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At this moment I have zero unread books in the house. I mistimed a visit to the library and now have nothing to read till tomorrow. Warra pain.
Well except a couple of books about Barak Obama, which were given to me by someone who also couldn't be bothered to read them
Well except a couple of books about Barak Obama, which were given to me by someone who also couldn't be bothered to read them
Just finished David Mitchell's Ghostwritten. Loved it; if you liked Cloud Atlas - this could be seen as a companion piece. Plus there's brief cameos from a couple of characters from the latter.
Chuff
Ako mula sa ibang planeta
james Kelman, How late it was, how late, been struggling with this for over a month, keeps putting it down then inexorably drawn back to it, irritated by the main character and think I have guessed the outcome but its still there pulling at me, really interesting, Donna Tart the little friend is the last book to catch me like this
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