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    What are you reading? 📚

    in The Jim Smith Room

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    34 minutes ago, Nuwtfly said:

    The Buried Giant, I think. Though I loved all three of the Cormac McCarthy books.

    The Three-Body Problem was the best bit of sci-fi (much better than the Netflix adaptation)

    I'd also highly recommend The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Setting Sun and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle!

    I assume you've read The Road by McCarthy?

    What are you reading? 📚

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Nuwtfly said:

    I did a 52 book challenge last year. Essentially it was to read a book a week every week. It was an absolutely brilliant way to force yourself to make reading a habit and explore a variety of genres. Here’s the 52:

    War Horse (Michael Morpurgo)

    All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)

    The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)

    Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)

    Cosmos (Carl Sagan)

    Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)

    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)

    Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)

    This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)

    Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)

    The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis)

    Leviathan Wakes (James. S. A. Corey)

    We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 

    The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) 

    Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer) 

    Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)

    The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)

    Mortal Engines (Stanislaw Lem)

    Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (Harold Schechter)

    Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

    The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe) 

    The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)

    The Hustler (Walter Tevis)

    Why I Write (George Orwell)

    The Poppy War (R. F. Kuang) 

    Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)

    A Psalm for the Wild Built (Becky Chambers) 

    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

    Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)

    Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)

    Lapvona (Ottessa Moshfegh)

    The Chrysalids (John Wyndham) 

    The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)

    The Story of Kullervo (J. R. R. Tolkien)

    All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 

    The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)

    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

    South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)

    The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke) 

    The Talented Mr Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)

    Island (Aldous Huxley)

    Tokyo Express (Seicho Matsumoto)

    Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)

    The Centauri Device (M. John Harrison)

    Where the Wild Ladies Are (Matsuda Aoko)

    Stardust (Neil Gaiman)

    The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy)

    Doomsday Clock (Geoff Johns) 

    Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat)

    The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai)

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)

    Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)

    What were your favourites?

    The longest 15 hours ever

    in Derby County Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, CBRammette said:

    OMG its still only Friday - what are your plans? How will you get to sleep? How can we make it go quicker? Or are you savouring it? 
    Couldnt sleep last night but doing an A-Z of Derby players then really helped. Only got to N. 
    Think I'm overly excited as didnt think could go tomorrow then Mr CBR sacrificed himself to accompany Baby CBR to offer holder day. 3 alarms already set. Aaargghhh!!

    Nelson, O'Hare..

    Match Thread: Carlisle United (h)

    in Derby County Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, VulcanRam said:

    With respect I'll be saving all this for when, or if, we ever get promoted to the Premier League. Or win the FA Cup. Something that really signifies over-achievement or something truly special. I don't think this is it.

    Don't get me wrong, I'll be delighted come 5pm when we're out of this lousy league but we're only going back to where we should always have been except with a poorer squad and - from what I've seen this season of the Championship - a higher standard of football generally than when we were last in it.

    We should never have been docked 21 points imo, and never have been relegated. But we were, and massive well done to Paul Warne and the players for getting us out after two seasons. With the squad we have we should be challenging at the top of the table. I went to the end of season awards last night and it was great to have such a positive vibe in the room.

    But, in my humble opinion, it's not worth some of the overly emotive stuff I've read on this forum in the last few days. 

    Who knows who will be around when we reach the prem again or win a cup. These last few years have shown that you have to appreciate these possible moments.

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