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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/
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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