*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[sojourner]

sojourner have you read The Good Immigrant?

I'm halfway through The Good Immigrant Thimble Queen . I think everyone should read this book. I am half gobsmacked and half shamed by some of the stuff that simply did not occur to me. That thing about the Other box, and East Asian people (and statistics). Fucking hell.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

One for Pickman's model - odd bookmarks.

Bacon and a used condom - obviously someone into wolfbagging.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I'm halfway through The Good Immigrant Thimble Queen . I think everyone should read this book. I am half gobsmacked and half shamed by some of the stuff that simply did not occur to me. That thing about the Other box, and East Asian people (and statistics). Fucking hell.

Don't feel shame mate. There's no reason why stuff like this should occur to you unless you go through it or if your loved ones do. If you want any more recommendations on this theme LMK.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Today I started reading Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks. The language is quite straight forward so it makes it easy enough to sneak read at work

 

[sojourner]

Today I started reading Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks. The language is quite straight forward so it makes it easy enough to sneak read at work

I read a fair bit of bell hooks when I was at uni in the late 90s. Brilliant.

 

[sojourner]

Don't feel shame mate. There's no reason why stuff like this should occur to you unless you go through it or if your loved ones do. If you want any more recommendations on this theme LMK.

Yeh - throw some stuff my way.

And thank you.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Thanks to those recommending 'The Good Immigrant', just ordered a copy.

 

[belboid]

Laurent Binet - The Seventh Function of Language.


It owes a massive debt to Eco, bring an amalgam of Name of the Rose & Foucaults Pendulum so far. But damn, it’s good fun. More total intellectual masturbation, but hey, what japes.

 

[colbhoy]

Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember by John Feinstein. Very good so far.

 

[kropotkin]

Thanks to those recommending 'The Good Immigrant', just ordered a copy.

Me too. Thanks in advance

 

[sparkling]

I’m listening to Eleanor olifant is absolutely fine.
Loving it. Both laugh out loud and terribly sad.

 

[Voley]

I've just ordered 'The Good Immigrant' from the library too.

 

[danny la rouge]

"Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump" by Asad Haider.

So far it's taken from articles and essays I've already read, but it's good stuff.

Verso

 

[flypanam]

Solar Bones - Mike McCormack. An hour in the kitchen alone with his thoughts. Muses on modern Ireland. All in one sentence too.

Stewart Edwards - The Paris Commune 1871

 

[belboid]

Pierre Bayard - Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong

The dog was not to blame! Holmes ws completely misled, the actual killer was......

 

[krtek a houby]

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray. Initially I was put off by the title and jacket blurb. Made it seem full of forced zaniness but 100 pages in and am quite enjoying it.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Atlas Of The Great Irish Famine...edited by John Crowley..William J.Smith and Mike Murphy.
Massive book...it's one of those ones you read at a table.
Huge collection of essays.
It's a reprint...



A lot of prints of material from the time such as the above flier that was distributed in July 1847.
"At a time when over 3 million people were collecting rstions from the government's soup kitchens. Under the provision of the Poor Law Extension Act passed in June 1847 the burden of relief would eventually fall on the Poor Law system...which was singularly ilk-equipped to deal with a crisis on the scale of the famine. The result was a humanitarian disaster...."

Workhouse plan...



And below is a photo of the workhouse in Roscrea with the names if those who died between March and October 1848.




And this....the instruction on how to make the cheapest soup...in a country that was exporting it's food to England..

 

[sojourner]

Neil Gaiman - View From The Cheap Seats

Excellent. Had me welling up with how he feels about libraries and words and books in general - mirrors mine exactly.

 

[Virtual Blue]

Dune and Homo Deus

 

[Virtual Blue]

Neil Gaiman - View From The Cheap Seats

Excellent. Had me welling up with how he feels about libraries and words and books in general - mirrors mine exactly.

That one is on my list...

 

[ringo]

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
So far it's really not what I was expecting. Very smart, incisive and well written though.

 

[Fosters Mackem]

An amazing book chosen randomly, I can't believe how good it was

 

[sojourner]

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
So far it's really not what I was expecting. Very smart, incisive and well written though.

One of my fella's all time favourite books that.

 

[Orang Utan]

An amazing book chosen randomly, I can't believe how good it was

Did Alfred Warner write it? If not, who?

 

[Fosters Mackem]

Did Alfred Warner write it? If not, who?

Juliet Conlin - Alred Warner is the character or Alfred Werner

 

[DotCommunist]

Empire Games, the latest in Stross's many worlds series.

Larry Elliot, Europe Didn't Work but I'm only 70 pages in on that whereas the Stross book is nearly done. Getting a bit formulaic really, that and his Laundry stuff, but its a good formula

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Finally managed to make it past the first few pages of Crime and Punishment, just in time for the bank holiday weekend.

 

[miss direct]

I'm reading two books: The woman in the window, and Homo Deus.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm reading two books: The woman in the window, and Homo Deus.

Authors FFS!
I know a few authors/writers. It can take years to write a book and then someone posts the title of a book without mentioning the person who spent all that time writing it.

 

[miss direct]

ALL RIGHT!! A J Finn wrote the Window one and Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus. You're as strict as the American librarian who runs the book club here in Istanbul. She banned me from coming to the group once