What are you reading 2024 ?

[Lilith7]

I'm currently reading The great transition, Nick Fuller Googins, dystopian fiction & very difficult to put down. About climate change, its effects & how some humans manage to ignore it, others try to fix it & how a small percentage of people who control most of the wealth try to keep themselves & friends safe while ignoring the plight of others. Which leads to protests & eventually, action.


https://mastersreview.com/book-review-th...r-googins/

[Lilith7]

Goldilocke, Laura Lam, sci fi.

https://sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com...laura-lam/

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Austral by Paul McAuley, bit hard work, lots of wordage, but I have run out of books till tomorrow so I shall persevere. Five new ones waiting plus two dvds, that should help my 2am deserts...

I gave up on Goldilocke, though I quite liked the ones she did with Elizabeth May.

[Olive]

Percival Everett's James.   It's a re-working of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of his slave/friend Jim.   That doesn't sound very enticing, but it is wonderful.   Everett is not well known, but he's a wonderful writer.

[Lilith7]

Oh Miriam, Miriam Margolyes. Very funny & an interesting read, I especially loved the French version of the old saying 'as the actress said to the Bishop'.
And she does not like Netanyahu, or British Tory politicians, especially Boris...



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...-remembers

[Lilith7]

About halfway through Know your place, Golriz Gahraman. Very interesting reading, especially the amount of attacks she had from idiot keyboard warriors; though of course she was far from alone in that. Apparently most of the Green female members copped quite a bit of it,men as well but not to the same extent.

[Lilith7]

Currently reading Boy swallows universe, Trent Dalton & really enjoying it. Apparently there's to be a Netflix 7 part adaption.
Its apparently based on his childhood growing up in Brisbane.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/m...f-the-year


https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...adaptation

[Lilith7]

Just finished re reading The Round house, Louise Erdrich; loved it the first time I read it years ago & still love it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/m...ich-review

[Lilith7]

Just started Vulture capitalism, Grace Blakely. Very interesting, especially the part about Boeing & how they didn't mind if a few of their planes crshed, killing many, as long as they paid their shareholders big bucks. And get away with it.

“Capitalism is, at its core, defined by this divide:the divide between the people who own all the stuff required to produce the commodities, & those who are forced to sell their labour power to the capitalists to buy those comodities. The profit of the capitalist comes through the exploitation of the workers – the interests of the two are diametrically opposed.”
Vulture Capitalism. Grace Blakely

[Lilith7]

Just finished Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley. A hard read mainly due to the awful things we're capable of inflicting on eacjh othe. But extremely interesting; it doesn't have to be this difficult to exist in this world.


“Capitalism is, at its core, defined by this divide:the divide between the people who own all the stuff required to produce the commodities, & those who are forced to sell their labour power to the capitalists to buy those comodities. The profit of the capitalist comes through the exploitation of the workers – the interests of the two are diametrically opposed.”

“We do not have to live in a society defined by such extreme inequalities of wealth & power. We do not have to spend the rest of our lives dealing with feelings of hopelessness & despair. We do not have to live in a world that is so unfree. We only have to peer through the cracks already emerging within capitalism to catch a glimpse of the real freedom that awaits on the other side."

Vulture capitalism
Grace Blakeley

[Lilith7]

Re reading Norwegian by night, Derek B Miller & enjoying it just as much second time around. I have his American by day lined up next.


https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-revie...-by-night/

[Lilith7]

Reading The girl on green, Derek B Miller. Very tense, sticky pages. He's seriously good. I'm having to ration this so I don't finish it too soon...

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-revie...-in-green/

[Zurdo]

I recently read the Bookshop Detectives, there is 2 in the series. It's a couple of English exCops who have come to NZ and set up a bookshop in Havelock North, and get involved in mysteries. But - it's them ! The authors are a couple of English exCops who have set up a bookshop in Havelock North...and write detective novels. The names are slightly altered, but she has bright red hair same as in the books. Not outstanding, but good reads.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I am rereading Val Mc Dermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jorden series, in random order. It's been long enough so they are like new reads, and such page turners...

[Lilith7]

Burial Rites, Hannah Kent, really enjoying it. Its about the last woman to be executed in Iceland. Apparently they're going to make a movie from it, with Jennifer Lawrence.

[Lilith7]

Now reading Girl One, Sarah Flannery Murphy.

Parthenogenesis; women no longer need males to conceive. Nine women conceive & bear children with no fathers; not everyone is delighted by this. So far,so good - definitely interesting.

https://southernreviewofbooks.com/2022/0...hy-review/