What are you reading?

[Del191229]

Can't recommend this highly enough.

 

[goalieboy82]

a book i hope

 

[Heaps of fun]

Just finished Submission by Michel Houellebecq and started Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger a couple of days ago.

 

[andana]

The Offing Ben Myers

 

[Sopwiths North]

Currently reading Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson. Just finished Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Both are very good. Next on the pile is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Will Kimmerer.

 

[Snake_Baker]

(PDF) Clock Reactions

PDF | Clock behaviours, resulting from transitions between different dynamical states, are observed in many different chemical systems. Some examples... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

www.researchgate.net

 

[Mordecai]

Recently finished A History of Wolves. She's excellent at capturing what's going on in another person. Very strange story and hard to believe. By the end though you can see how it came to be. Some people are just on autopilot almost - they don't know they want something so badly. What is it? Rumsfeld's known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns.... this girl is clearly in the unstated category. Unknown knowns. She is driven by a known that is imperceptible to her - a deep need for connection.

Currently reading clock without hands.

 

[D23D]

Reading Sons of Guns by Matt Watson about father and sons in the AFL.

Has some North flavour with both McDonalds interviewed and the Shaw’s too.
Good read so far.

 

[Mordecai]

Just finished Submission by Michel Houellebecq and started Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger a couple of days ago.

Read the possibility of island and atomised by houellebecq. Left a mark on me. Just a brilliant mind.

 

[KillaKanga]

About to finish 'IF IT BLEEDS' by Stephen King.

Then I'll spend the summer chewing thought:

Matthew Reilly - The Two Lost Mountains

Jane Harper - The Survivors

Jess Townsend - Wundersmith

&

Marc Lindsay (my bro) - Gods of Perigord

 

[rickety]

Recently the Billy Connolly book, then more recently reread Bravo Two Zero. Got a few in a queue including a George Gregan autobiography, Journeys with Gelignite Jack which I have read before and is just f#ckin funny and Ade Edmondson's The Gobbler.

 

[big_e]

A history of the car industry - The Life of the Automobile. I'm not much of a car person (the Nissan Micra is a giveaway) but it's pretty good.

And Alive! The story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes. Some will remember the movie from the mid 90s. Cracking read.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Been going on a bit of a spending spree on Amazon. I got a nice little range for the Xmas break.

- Antony Beevor’s ‘Berlin: The Downfall 1945’
- Mike Duncan’s ‘The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic’
- Tom Holland’s ‘Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West’
- Toby Wilkinson’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt’
- Ian Toll’s ‘The Conquering Tide – War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944’
- Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s ‘Cynical Theories’. Just for something different.

 

[andana]

The Mountains Sing by Phan Que Mai Nguyen.
The author is a famous poet. This is her first book. Has a wonderful flow.

 

[big_e]

Picked up Peter Lalor's Barassi biography and Paul Kelly's How to Make Gravy this afternoon from the Salvos - three dollarbucks each.

 

[Grogg]

Just finished The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neal Gaiman. Fantastic storyteller.

Now onto A Man by Keiichiro Hirano.

 

[Grogg]

Can't recommend this highly enough.

I'll put that on the list

 

[Del191229]

Been going on a bit of a spending spree on Amazon. I got a nice little range for the Xmas break.

- Antony Beevor’s ‘Berlin: The Downfall 1945’
- Mike Duncan’s ‘The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic’
- Tom Holland’s ‘Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West’
- Toby Wilkinson’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt’
- Ian Toll’s ‘The Conquering Tide – War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944’
- Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s ‘Cynical Theories’. Just for something different.

Persian Fire is great.

Read The Exile too.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Persian Fire is great.

Read The Exile too.

The Exile?

Do tell.

My Persian interest was renewed with Dan Carlin’s podcast series. I have already read Herodotus. A fascinating and truly exceptional people the Persians.

 

[Del191229]

The Exile?

Do tell.

My Persian interest was renewed with Dan Carlin’s podcast series. I have already read Herodotus. A fascinating and truly exceptional people the Persians.

The Exile: The Flight of Osama bin Laden review – an insider’s account of al-Qaida after 9/11

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy’s gripping history of the terrorist network, from 2001 to the present, reveals a dark web of familial and political machinations

www.theguardian.com

 

[KillaKanga]

Been going on a bit of a spending spree on Amazon. I got a nice little range for the Xmas break.

- Antony Beevor’s ‘Berlin: The Downfall 1945’
- Mike Duncan’s ‘The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic’
- Tom Holland’s ‘Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West’
- Toby Wilkinson’s ‘The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt’
- Ian Toll’s ‘The Conquering Tide – War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944’
- Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s ‘Cynical Theories’. Just for something different.

A couple of mine are on sale for 99c atm

Different James Lindsay though.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Marc-Lindsay/e/B00ZBRULQA/ (I'm James, Marc is my brother btw)

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

The Exile: The Flight of Osama bin Laden review – an insider’s account of al-Qaida after 9/11

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy’s gripping history of the terrorist network, from 2001 to the present, reveals a dark web of familial and political machinations

www.theguardian.com

Just ordered it from Amazon.

 

[andana]

How Much of These Hills is Gold
C. Pam Zhang

Possible Companion for the Cormac McCarthy Trilogy

 

[Heaps of fun]

Just finished Serotonin by Houellebecq. The plot was pretty convoluted compared to Submission which was a 99% fat free book. Interesting characters, situations and ideas in it though.

 

[Del191229]

Just ordered it from Amazon.

How's it going?