What are you reading? 📚

[Nuwtfly]

3 hours ago, B4’s Sister said:

Well done! I did the 52 book challenge a couple of years ago. I’m glad I did it but I found I wasn’t enjoying read as much as usual by trying to fit so much reading in. I usually read 35-40 books a year. On book 15 for this year at the moment. Thanks for sharing your list

Yes I certainly found I was reading some books just to read them, rather than for pleasure. But it was a great way to try new things!

I'm currently reading A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara) and absolutely loathing it!

[B4’s Sister]

1 hour ago, Nuwtfly said:

Yes I certainly found I was reading some books just to read them, rather than for pleasure. But it was a great way to try new things!

I'm currently reading A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara) and absolutely loathing it!

There were odd bits I liked about it but some parts were draining 

[Leeds Ram]

currently reading liberalism as a way of life by Alexandre Lefebvre 🙂 it's very compelling yet easy to read. Interviewing him tomorrow about it which should be fun.

[BaaLocks]

Technofeudalism: Who Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

Pretty disruptive view of what the future holds, as good a book on the subject as you will read this year (or many others).

[angieram]

On 30/04/2024 at 20:26, 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)

That's some effort.

I'm in a book group and read one book for that every month, and another for pleasure, so around 24 in the year. 

Very few books on your list that I have read, but we did Klara and the Sun recently and I loved it. 

[Crewton]

43 minutes ago, angieram said:

That's some effort.

I'm in a book group and read one book for that every month, and another for pleasure, so around 24 in the year. 

Very few books on your list that I have read, but we did Klara and the Sun recently and I loved it. 

Klara and the Sun is a wonderful book.

[Nuwtfly]

1 hour ago, angieram said:

That's some effort.

I'm in a book group and read one book for that every month, and another for pleasure, so around 24 in the year. 

Very few books on your list that I have read, but we did Klara and the Sun recently and I loved it. 

I really enjoyed it, too. I’m yet to read an Ishiguro book I haven’t liked!

[B4’s Sister]

Just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. It was a light read but felt quite refreshing. I read it mostly before bed over the last week and it was nice to just have something to help me switch off easily. One of the main characters is an octopus, which I really enjoyed. 

[Nuwtfly]

Just started Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel). Only about 50 pages in but really enjoying it so far.

Would recommend if you like things like The Last of Us, Walking Dead, general dystopian novels...

[admira]

Big Sam by Sam Allardyce. It’s ok but he’s a bit full of himself. 

[CrapSince99]

Angles with dirty faces by Jonathan Wilson. Chronicles Argentinean football from its beginnings to present day. Very dense but exceptionally researched and written. 

[AndyinLiverpool]

12 minutes ago, CrapSince99 said:

Angles with dirty faces by Jonathan Wilson. Chronicles Argentinean football from its beginnings to present day. Very dense but exceptionally researched and written. 

Perhaps I'm being obtuse but this sounds acutely interesting.

[Crewton]

14 minutes ago, AndyinLiverpool said:

Perhaps I'm being obtuse but this sounds acutely interesting.

I'm still waiting for the Brazilians to produce a player called Isosceles.