*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[Pickman's model]

This is a cracking and very interesting book even if at times I feel it is a bit about the author and her "difficulties"
When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope review – how to respond to catastrophe

DO NOT read if you are squeamish, likely to have nightmares or recently suffered a loss or bereavement . Whilst waiting for my medical procedure yesterday I read the chapter where
she details about what went wrong with her husbands Tonsillectomy after he had been discharged from hospital - not the best of times to read something like that

perhaps you should try ugo bardi's 'before the collapse: a guide to the other side of growth' Before the Collapse

 

[hash tag]

perhaps you should try ugo bardi's 'before the collapse: a guide to the other side of growth' Before the Collapse

More about the philosophy than the practicalities?
Reminds me, in one chapter Lucy describes how quickly a flood occurs and how the aftermath is utterly devastating, for years to come

 

[Pickman's model]

More about the philosophy than the practicalities?
Reminds me, in one chapter Lucy describes how quickly a flood occurs and how the aftermath is utterly devastating, for years to come

i think it's a cracking read, it's definitely not dry

 

[stockwelljonny]

Just finished Black Sea by Ascherson. Had it on the shelf for a long time and enjoyed it v much, prompted by topicality, dense mix of travelogue and history and helpful context to current situation in Ukraine. Old school quality travel book.

Now started Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, read it probably 20 years ago and remembered it being special but forgot the plot, the doctor, the parrot, the wife and her lover, what a lovely book, properly takes you away on a surreal adventure

 

[srb7677]

I am reading Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921, by Antony Beevor.

The author is something of a right winger which is best born in mind when reading this but he is a reasonably good and accurate historian.

Prior to this I read The Starmer Poject: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton.

This is a damning indictment of Keir Starmer and those currently leading the Labour Party.

 

[T & P]

Hannibal. As far as the outcome for Clarice and Dr Lecter goes, the ending is rather different to the film adaption

Haven’t finished the TV series yet so if anyone comments please don’t mention what happens there.

 

[Nikkormat]

Just finished John Stuart Mill's essays On Liberty, Considerations on Representative Government, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women. Over the past year or so, I've been trying to get through those political texts I feel I should have read years ago. Can't say it's doing much for me. I'm getting bits, I suppose.

Now starting No Hurry to Get Home by Emily Hahn. Likely more fun than the above.

 

[sojourner]

Post-Truth by James Ball. My daughter got it for my birthday. It was published in 2017 so it's kinda fascinating to know how things have panned out since he wrote it.

 

[sojourner]

This is a cracking and very interesting book even if at times I feel it is a bit about the author and her "difficulties"
When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope review – how to respond to catastrophe

DO NOT read if you are squeamish, likely to have nightmares or recently suffered a loss or bereavement . Whilst waiting for my medical procedure yesterday I read the chapter where
she details about what went wrong with her husbands Tonsillectomy after he had been discharged from hospital - not the best of times to read something like that

Put it on my Books To Buy list - cheers.

 

[rubbershoes]

The deaths of December

An absolutely ridiculous book, and I don't know why I stuck with it for as long as I did. Serial killer nonsense, killing one person every December for the last 20 odd years. All in a pattern, and all methodical.

Until the book starts when, for no reason, they change their pattern and method.

I read this pile of shit until about 15 pages from the end, when I thought fuck it and decided not to see it through. I don't care how it ends.

Wouldn't recommend

 

[nottsgirl]

Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney. Too early on in the book to pass comment.

 

[nottsgirl]

Three Rooms by Jo Hamya.

 

[bimble]

I’ve been reading young adult fantasy books only, nothing else, since a few weeks into the invasion of Ukraine. And they are fecking great.
Just finished the bartameus trilogy, fecking brilliant stuff, funny and kind and escapist.
What next any ideas? This is not at all my usual fare but I want to keep it up for a year the genre.

 

[BristolEcho]

I’ve been reading young adult fantasy books only, nothing else, since a few weeks into the invasion of Ukraine. And they are fecking great.
Just finished the bartameus trilogy, fecking brilliant stuff, funny and kind and escapist.
What next any ideas? This is not at all my usual fare but I want to keep it up for a year the genre.

Hmm I quite liked Joe Abercrombies attempt. Half a king was the first one I think?

I finished Children of Men. It was alright but ran out of steam.

Currently listening to Order of the Pheonix. About 20 hours in.

Reading Dan Jones - Power and Thrones. First book of his I've attempted to read. It covers European Medieval History from the fall of the Roman Empire so a lot to get through and it's huge, but very readable so far.

 

[rubbershoes]

I’ve been reading young adult fantasy books only, nothing else, since a few weeks into the invasion of Ukraine. And they are fecking great.
Just finished the bartameus trilogy, fecking brilliant stuff, funny and kind and escapist.
What next any ideas? This is not at all my usual fare but I want to keep it up for a year the genre.

Enders Game?

 

[bimble]

Enders Game?

Someone was talking about that yesterday! But as a film. Ok.

 

[rubbershoes]

Someone was talking about that yesterday! But as a film. Ok.

I'm guessing it's based on a book. Don't know for sure

 

[bimble]

There was a deviation, couple of nights ago i read The End We Start From, by megan hunter.
Highly recommend, it's tiny, more a poem than a novel.

 

[RedRedRose]

Dmitri Volkogonov - Autopsy For An Empire, seven biographies of the leaders of the USSR. Some of the key historical events are not covered in detail, but its quite penetrative on the failings of the regime and the leaders. Contains lots of anecdotes, as it's from an ex-military general no less. I found the bits on Andropov and Chernenko particularly useful.

Vladislav Zubok - Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, released this year. Vis a vis Volkogonov, dwells more on the emergence of various nationalisms and the contradictions in Gorbachev's social policy.

 

[sojourner]

Nella Last's War - the diaries of Nella Last. I recently watched Housewife, 49, and was interested in reading the actual diaries.

The editors did a preface though, and at the exact point they are telling the reader how they had to clean up her grammatical errors, there's a fucking typo. A missing word. Fucking absolute knobheads. I hope they burn in shame.

 

[MrCurry]

Nella Last's War - the diaries of Nella Last. I recently watched Housewife, 49, and was interested in reading the actual diaries.

The editors did a preface though, and at the exact point they are telling the reader how they had to clean up her grammatical errors, there's a fucking typo. A missing word. Fucking absolute knobheads. I hope they burn in shame.

Maybe her ghost cleaned up their preface for them. Spitefully.

 

[sojourner]

Maybe her ghost cleaned up their preface for them. Spitefully.

Did make me laugh though.

 

[rubbershoes]

Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass.

It must be 20 years since I've read anything by him) and I'd forgotten his style. It took a while to get back into his meandering way but I liked t after that.

It's autobiographical from childhood to the publication of The Tin Drum. Childhood nazi enthusiasm, his brief war service, and the chaotic post war period.

It's not his best book but it took me back to my Grass days

 

[Nikkormat]

Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel. Worth reading.

 

[seventh bullet]

Communism in India: Events, Processes & Ideologies - Bidyut Chakrabarty

 

[Nikkormat]

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

 

[seventh bullet]

Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics - Evgeny Dobrenko

 

[seventh bullet]

Dmitri Volkogonov - Autopsy For An Empire, seven biographies of the leaders of the USSR. Some of the key historical events are not covered in detail, but its quite penetrative on the failings of the regime and the leaders. Contains lots of anecdotes, as it's from an ex-military general no less. I found the bits on Andropov and Chernenko particularly useful.

Vladislav Zubok - Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, released this year. Vis a vis Volkogonov, dwells more on the emergence of various nationalisms and the contradictions in Gorbachev's social policy.

Have a look at The Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution by Kevin C. O'Connor.

On the CPSU bureaucrats and Russian nationalist intellectual mileu who found common cause in aiming to save an imperilled USSR from Gorbachev's reforms (also intended to save the system from collapse).

 

[RedRedRose]

Have a look at The Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution by Kevin C. O'Connor.

On the CPSU bureaucrats and Russian nationalist intellectual mileu who found common cause in aiming to save an imperilled USSR from Gorbachev's reforms (also intended to save the system from collapse).

Thanks. I managed to find a copy.

As it happens, I finished the Zubok book yesterday; chapters on the coup and the conclusion aside, it was a bit of a slog.

 

[nottsgirl]

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller. Half way through, very good so far.