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What are you reading 2024 ?
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12-10-2024, 04:30 PM
This is going to hurt, Secret diary of a junior doctor, Adam Kay. Hilarious, scary & really difficult to put down.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/m...kay-review
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
12-10-2024, 06:23 PM
I've just finished reading Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road. Phew... it's huge, densely detailed, wildly entertaining and a moving elegy for the social disaster that London has become.
Has anyone here read it? What did you think? 
12-10-2024, 10:00 PM
Book three of The Red Rising series... Morning Star. Pierce Brown, space opera tinted with the ancient classical world history, songs and poetry, violence and politics, very light of technology and hard science, but rollicking good yarns.
Like George RR Martin, he can make me cry for slaughtered characters. Two books to go, unless he writes another while I wait for the reserves queue to shrink.  (12-10-2024, 04:30 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: This is going to hurt, Secret diary of a junior doctor, Adam Kay. Hilarious, scary & really difficult to put down.I watched the TV series of the same name and based on this real life junior doctor. Pretty scathing portrayal of the problems in the UK NHS.
13-10-2024, 09:45 AM
(13-10-2024, 09:26 AM)harm_less Wrote:(12-10-2024, 04:30 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: This is going to hurt, Secret diary of a junior doctor, Adam Kay. Hilarious, scary & really difficult to put down.I watched the TV series of the same name and based on this real life junior doctor. Pretty scathing portrayal of the problems in the UK NHS. I saw that too so when I saw the book, grabbed it - its funnier than the series. He's written quite a few books so I'll be looking for them now.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
19-10-2024, 09:57 AM
Reading an interesting one at present, Hurdy gurdy,Jenny Ackland. set in Oz in the near future.
“What's not a joke is that you can't take tissue from a corpse unless that person gave permission when they were alive. You can't take organs or eye parts, nothing like that. The people who want to ban abortion at six weeks, they say a non viable foetus has more rights then the person whose body it's in. They're saying that women deserve even fewer rights than dead people. Think about that.” https://www.artshub.com.au/news/reviews/...d-2727265/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
01-11-2024, 02:53 PM
Reading another in a similar vein & also by an Australian author. Similar but different - Queensland removes itself from the states & becomes a country. One with simillarities to both the McBishop & Trump...
https://theresasmithwrites.com/2018/10/1...et-morgan/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
03-12-2024, 03:05 PM
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
03-12-2024, 07:30 PM
I'm reading Owen Marshall's Return to Harikoa Bay, a large collection of his short stories. I'm not usually a fan of short stories, finding them too tight and controlling, but these are all wonderful He is so good.
04-12-2024, 12:38 PM
(03-12-2024, 07:30 PM)Olive Wrote: I'm reading Owen Marshall's Return to Harikoa Bay, a large collection of his short stories. I'm not usually a fan of short stories, finding them too tight and controlling, but these are all wonderful He is so good. Yes, he's brilliant, another I must get around to reading again. 
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
13-01-2025, 11:01 AM
I'm finally reading To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee - one of those books I've always meant to read but never got around to. Easily one of the best books ever.
This should tell all you need to know about it - I'm within about 10-20 pages of the end, but have managed to put it down in order to save some for later...
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
18-01-2025, 10:11 AM
Another excellent book which was also difficult to put down, Prophet Song, Paul Lynch. Set in Ireland it tells the srory of a family & how they cope when their country slips into totalitarianism.
It started by being somewhat scary & swiftly became terrifying. Written with no paragraph breaks it nonetheless became impossible to put down, especially once the main character Eilish is alone with four children & attempting to cope with dangerous situations. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...al-reading
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
18-01-2025, 12:15 PM
Prophet Song is indeed a powerful read. I found it demanding and at times overwhelming.
I'm presently reading Tim Winton's The Turning, which is wonderfully written but so unremittingly grim (and male-focused) that I'm quite looking forward to finishing it and moving on to something less airless.
19-01-2025, 08:53 AM
I finished Emily Perkins 'Lioness' and was struck by how possible it is to have the reality tv Housewives rubbish in book form. I am sure people do live like her main character and her incidental family but I don't know any. I guess that is what makes those reality tv shows so addictive. Watching them is like viewing life on a different planet, without the intelligence.
I was glad to return to the real fictional world of Joe Pickett courtesy of CJ Box, and I remain very grateful to him for his continued production of new opportunities for me to explore small town big mountain Wyoming without the need to wrap up warm.
19-01-2025, 09:20 AM
I liked Lioness. I have known lots of people, including relatives, who lived like that: some extremely wealthy, some struggling but with pretensions, and it all rang true. I used to find Perkins's novels a little distanced and superior but I think she's growing up.
I've never watched any of those alleged reality Housewives shows but have caught bits & pieces occasionally.
They appear to possibly be many things but housewife isn't one of them... Just this morning finished Into the magic shop, Dr James R Doty which is unlike anything I've ever read. I don't really know how to categorise it, except that its non fiction & about the importance of compassion. Definitely worth reading. https://jameskirby.com.au/a-review-into-...es-r-doty/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
19-01-2025, 01:33 PM
She is a very good writer. I couldn't stop reading it, despite my utter gobsmackedness. I do love a bit of houseporn though...
27-01-2025, 02:52 PM
Reading This fragile earth, Susannah Wise. Dystopian fiction, well written & like Prophet song has sticky pages so extremely difficult to put down.
https://vonnibee.com/2021/06/25/this-fra...ookreview/ https://books.beledit.com/this-fragile-earth/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
01-02-2025, 02:32 PM
Too much & never enough, Mary L Trump; about her uncle Donald..
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/j...rump-niece
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
10-02-2025, 09:42 AM
Catherine Chidgey's Remote Sympathy. I've recently come back to her novels and this one is riveting; huge, dense with research and just a small number of complex and thought-provoking characters. She manages to portray the horrors of Buchenwald without being so explicit that I couldn't turn the page, and because the dates and chronology are acknowledged throughout there is no inappropriate "suspense". I recommend this highly.
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