What are you reading right now?

[Siderite]

To distract from the more heavy Israel-Palestine threads (though I may be wrong if people are going to reply with JI’s book suggestions! Haha), what books are people reading at the moment?

I have been on a Pratchett spree, so have decided to break it up with this interesting non-fiction book into black Britain and how anti-racist activism doesn’t accurately represent black British experiences and why, speaking of an American lens distorts things.

https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/this-is-not-america/

Only read the introduction so far, but I am enjoying the premise.

[Deereyme66]

Just finished Bob Mortimer’s autobiography, Spook Street by Mick Herron and about to start this…

[Deereyme66]

Oh, and January Fishing News from the Environment Agency. And the previous half dozen newsletters….

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Just Iron

[Just Iron]

Nowt wrong with a bit of fishing info.

[Iron Age]

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye.

Fifth of the Millennium series which started with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Deereyme66

[Deereyme66]

Just Iron wrote:

Nowt wrong with a bit of fishing info.

Quite interesting fact from the Jan issue; out of the near half million fish that have been restocked in the rivers and lakes this year from rod licence fees, the Barbel was the most (125k). Bream, Roach amd Chubb around 50k each.

[billpuntonsghost]

Just read ,The Boniface Option by Andrew Isker, take a look at the reviews,some on here may find it interesting.

[Siderite]

Just Iron wrote:

Nowt wrong with a bit of fishing info.

I am sure bpg would appreciate the tips on bait.

[Siderite]

I have been reading this whistle stop tour through world history after some more Pratchett. I have read his previous novels and biography of Stalin, and this doesn’t disappoint with his engaging writing style. It’s a long tome, with over 1300 pages, spanning from the start of homo sapiens to the Ukraine war.

[Gurnelista]

Is it as good as the reviews say? I might take a look.

Current bed-side reading is John Savage’s ‘Time Travel’, a sort of Tardis trip back to the music scene of 1976-96. He’s a committed, serious witness but communicates the evidence in a passionate way. You can get it for under a fiver online.

A football equivalent might be Eduardo Galeano’s ‘Football in Sun and Shadow’. He’s a great writer and comes out with truths like “Football is a pleasure that hurts”, and elsewhere “No matter how hard you try to silence it, human history refuses to shut up” a line which almost brings a tear!

OK that’s enough of ‘pseud’s corner’. But it’s useful to have these comments – go to any modern bookshop and it overwhelms, with thousands of titles demanding attention, but how many actually live up to the blurb and hype?

[Siderite]

It’s written well, enjoyable and informative. It includes more focus away from just Europe or Asia, like some previous world history books, but if you want an in detail focus on each event it isn’t for you. It is a synopsis of the rule of previous civilisations (e.g. Greeks, Assyrians, Egyptians, Hittites, Persians, Qin dynasty etc), not an in depth civilisational study. However, like I say, it’s global, so it’s not just the progress of Europe. Later chapters focus on the Inca, kingdom of Benin, the Khmer Empire etc.

[Deereyme66]

Some interesting choices above that I might investigate. Particularly like the sound of the Galeano and Savage books.

[Deereyme66]

Wonder if Rene ever read that on Notts drug gangs and organised crime? I got a copy but haven’t read it yet though a little surprisingly, when I mentioned it to a relative who isn’t interested in the Iron at all, turned out he had read it already and rated it.

[Gurnelista]

What’s the title?
As for organised crime, there should be a chapter on the use of social media for political subterfuge, where screen handles double as balaclavas to disguise all kinds of grifters, from a few on here to Michael Green / Corinne Stockwith.

[Deereyme66]

Hoods by Carl Felstrom

[Gurnelista]

I read the extract – pretty gruesome stuff, but Fellstrom puts it down well.
There’s a lot of stories about bloody, violent crime about at present, both fiction and realism, particularly in the freeview channels from Britain and America. Why is this?

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