Books you've read in 2024

So far over Christmas/New Year I’ve read

‘The Gallopers’ by Jon Ransom 2/5
‘In Memoriam’ by Alice Winn 3/5

Just started ‘Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants’ by Paul David Gould.
 
My semi :ken: New Year’s resolution is to make a dent in my existing ’to read’ pile before buying any more books.

Let’s see how that works out…….
 
I started this before Christmas and I'm only just ploughing through it now. It's translated from Bulgarian, and despite a slow start ends up leaning heavily into a very well written parody of Brexit, nostalgia and nostalgia politics.

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jyxz said:
My semi :ken: New Year’s resolution is to make a dent in my existing ’to read’ pile before buying any more books.

Let’s see how that works out…….
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That's a good one. My book addiction is becoming a space problem.
 
This is written from a neutral historian viewpoint, which is nice. I've never considered myself that knowledgeable on the matter so I'm pleased to get of the background.

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I finished this today and yeah I'm sorry for what happened to him but my god it was so badly written and BORING

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This week I finished

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which is gripping and brilliant and much recommended.

I also just finished

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for book club which wasn't so bad once I stopped rolling my eyes.

And I'm half way through

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which is very good.
 
Just started this as recommended by the late and very missed Bev

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Very entertaining!
 
You all read very grown up books compared to me. If mine isn't set in Cornwall, Wales, or the Highlands and doesn't have a colourful cover and a love story I have no interest.
 
I managed to read three books in January (after the initial failure with Prophet Song).

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Thanks @Peekaboo for recommending Left Is not Woke! It’s hard not to agree with the author about the parts considering tribalism vs universalism, and doom vs progress and I guess these are views that I had and went into reading the book to have amplified, but my knowledge of Focault’s theories is superficial at best and this turned out to be a lot of arguing against his and his peers’ theories. I felt like I got to know more about what her idea of what left isn’t than what the woke movement really stands for (but maybe her point was that woke and radical progressive ideas aren’t really applicable in politics as ”left” is?).


If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller was such a huge disappointment. I was looking forward to reading it, first two chapters were like ASMR for reading, dreamy and hypnotic but it quickly became apparent that this is nothing but the author trying to see how long you’d last before you’d throw away this book. Reading it ended up feeling like self harm.


Pereira Maintains is about a publisher in Lisbone in the 1930’s during the military regime and the ongoing Spanish civil war. A short and very rewarding read.
 
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Jark said:
I'm seeing so many Japanese and Korean fiction books right now about book shops and cat cafes. they all seem to be some variation on "eight strangers visit a peaceful book store to find out how many of their nine lives remain". must be an easy bestseller.
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I mentioned this in the meeting. For context, a lot of it is about commercialisation of books and writing to sell. Which seemed ironic. But it was fine.

Currently I've to read Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan by the end of the month, which I'm excited for. On audio I'm listening to The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es. And I've got June by Gerbrand Bakker in my bag. The reviews aren't as great as those for The Twin, but I loved the latter so much that I had to try this.
 
The Cut Out Girl was great.

Just finishing this:

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It's fantastic, and I think I've got The Beekeeper of Aleppo somewhere for afterwards.
 
After a break I've finally started on some Dan Jones (The hottest historian).

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Glorious. I've been meaning to do a deeper dive into the Crusades since I first did a scant overview a year or so ago. Brilliantly detailed and far from a light read, which was exactly what I was looking for.
 
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