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My reading has gone to pot lately, a combination of having a small child around the place (not a complaint, btw!) and general inertia. Picked out a handy easy read in Pete Paphides "Broken Greek" to get back into the swing of things and finished it there a while back. Really enjoyed it.

My summer/early autumn reading: The Library Book - Susan Orbach ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Constellations - Sinéad Gleeson ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography - Limmy ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leonard and Hungry Paul - Ronan Hession ⭐⭐⭐ New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future - James Bridle...

As usual, some great recommendations in here, cheers folks. My latest batch, over the last few months: For The Good Times - David Keenan ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story - Mary-Kay Wilmers ⭐⭐⭐ Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The...

Yeah, I was well impressed by it, think it was either yourself or @jonah who recommended it. I'd only read The Accidental by her years ago, Winter is definitely on the reading list now, cheers!

Recently: Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan (y)(y)(y)(y) A Life of My Own - Claire Tomalin (y)(y)(y) Autumn - Ali Smith (y)(y)(y)(y)(y) The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg - Klaus Geitinger (y)(y)(y) Red Famine: Stalin's War On The Ukraine - Anne Applebaum (y)(y)(y)(y)(y) This thread has give me a right...

Wow. That's some list. And some good recommendations to add to the in-tray!

Recently: Normal People - Sally Rooney (y)(y)(y)(y) Educated - Tara Westover :sleep: Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (y)(y)(y)(y)(y) The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov (y)(y)(y)(y) My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh (y)(y)(y)(y) Currently looking at: Borstal Boy -...

Nice one, have this in the queue at home.

I've no time for that lad at all. I read his post-punk book and cringed through 90% of it.

Speaking of whom, this is definitely on my Christmas list: k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) | Repeater Books | Repeater Books

TMI, mostly from dodgy fuckers

Was looking at this a while back, good to get a recommendation, cheers!

This is very good indeed.

Really enjoyed this. Some interesting characters* in the transhumanist movement! * numpties

Great read that alright.

I picked up Epitaph for a Spy in an Oxfam shop recently based purely on the cover, it was brilliant, I really enjoyed it! Will definitely search out a few more of his. Had never come across him before.

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Reading this at the moment. One for the Ken Loach fans.

Finished this during the week, probably the first 600+ page novel I've read in 10 years or so. I enjoyed it, and laughed out loud a good few times during the reading of it, which is exceedingly rare for me. Apparently it's being made into a telly show at some point in the future. Anyways, I give...

Yeah, Nicholas Lezard had it in his paperback of the week a while back (here) and he's usually a good bet. Didn't click with this one at all though!