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By (user no longer on site) OP 48 weeks ago
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Calling all bookworms! What new books did you get for Christmas? I got :-
How minds change by David McRaney
Ask a Historian by Greg Jenner
Hello World (How to be human in the age of the Machine) by Hannah Fry |
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By (user no longer on site) 48 weeks ago
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"Poor Things by Alisdair Gray, I should really read it before I go and see the movie.
I've heard so many good things about this book and author but never read them. I'll have to put that right."
Start with Lanark.  |
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"A collection by Rupi Kaur.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
Yellowface - Rebecca F Kaung.
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Somehow I've never read The Secret History despite hearing about it for years. That's one for 2024. Yellowface is getting a lot of buzz so I might well give it a go - let me know what you think of it. |
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"Poor Things by Alisdair Gray, I should really read it before I go and see the movie.
I've heard so many good things about this book and author but never read them. I'll have to put that right.
Start with Lanark. "
Yes, I've heard that's his big one. It's now on the 2024 list  |
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By (user no longer on site) 48 weeks ago
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Two books, lucky me.
One is Carmen Abroad - Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage. An edited volume full of highbrow stuff.
The other book is called David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas royle. Yet to start that.
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By (user no longer on site) OP 48 weeks ago
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"Currently reading Strangeways: A Prison Officers Story, by Neil Samworth.
Only started it earlier today and im already half way through it lol"
Must be a good’un |
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By (user no longer on site) 48 weeks ago
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None..but one that would of been a Christmas prezzy to myself was "How they broke Britain" by James O'Brien
.. I've decided to wait for the paperback edition. |
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By *eliWoman 48 weeks ago
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The Fraud - Zadie Smith
She was on the Rest is History podcast last week and it sounds a really interesting read. "
Ah nice! I'm leaning towards starting with that but a part of me really wants to enjoy the dark academia vibes of Secret History; it's rather fitting for this weather! |
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What amazing good taste you all have:
Rupi Kaur...Alistair Grey...Donna Tartt...Zadie Smith...all in my favourites too.
My book presents this year were a compilation of photographic work in the north of England in the 60's and 70's (because I'm old enough to remember it) and an anthology of poetry by Liz Lochhead
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"Currently reading Strangeways: A Prison Officers Story, by Neil Samworth.
Only started it earlier today and im already half way through it lol
Must be a good’un"
It is. Ive had to step away from it, cos I dont wanna finish it in a day haha |
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