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RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 10-02-2025
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-the-great-transition-by-nick-fuller-googins/
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 25-02-2025
Goldilocke, Laura Lam, sci fi.
https://sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2020/12/11/book-review-goldilocks-by-laura-lam/
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Oh_hunnihunni - 25-02-2025
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.
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Olive - 25-02-2025
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.
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 09-04-2025
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/sep/19/oh-miriam-stories-from-an-extraordinary-life-by-miriam-margolyes-review-a-national-trinket-remembers
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 29-05-2025
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.
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 18-06-2025
Currently reading Boy swallows universe, Trent Dalton & really enjoying it. Apparently there's to be a Netflix 7 part adaption.
Its apparently based on his childhood growing up in Brisbane.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/02/extraordinary-and-beautiful-storytelling-boy-swallows-universe-wins-abia-book-of-the-year
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jan/11/boy-swallows-universe-review-netflix-trent-dalton-adaptation
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 01-07-2025
Just finished re reading The Round house, Louise Erdrich; loved it the first time I read it years ago & still love it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/18/round-house-louise-erdrich-review
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 03-07-2025
Just started Vulture capitalism, Grace Blakely. Very interesting, especially the part about Boeing & how they didn't mind if a few of their planes crshed, killing many, as long as they paid their shareholders big bucks. And get away with it.
“Capitalism is, at its core, defined by this divide:the divide between the people who own all the stuff required to produce the commodities, & those who are forced to sell their labour power to the capitalists to buy those comodities. The profit of the capitalist comes through the exploitation of the workers – the interests of the two are diametrically opposed.”
Vulture Capitalism. Grace Blakely
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 09-07-2025
Just finished Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley. A hard read mainly due to the awful things we're capable of inflicting on eacjh othe. But extremely interesting; it doesn't have to be this difficult to exist in this world.
“Capitalism is, at its core, defined by this divide:the divide between the people who own all the stuff required to produce the commodities, & those who are forced to sell their labour power to the capitalists to buy those comodities. The profit of the capitalist comes through the exploitation of the workers – the interests of the two are diametrically opposed.”
“We do not have to live in a society defined by such extreme inequalities of wealth & power. We do not have to spend the rest of our lives dealing with feelings of hopelessness & despair. We do not have to live in a world that is so unfree. We only have to peer through the cracks already emerging within capitalism to catch a glimpse of the real freedom that awaits on the other side."
Vulture capitalism
Grace Blakeley
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 21-07-2025
Re reading Norwegian by night, Derek B Miller & enjoying it just as much second time around. I have his American by day lined up next.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/derek-b-miller/norwegian-by-night/
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 31-08-2025
Reading The girl on green, Derek B Miller. Very tense, sticky pages. He's seriously good. I'm having to ration this so I don't finish it too soon...
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/derek-b-miller/the-girl-in-green/
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Zurdo - 31-08-2025
I recently read the Bookshop Detectives, there is 2 in the series. It's a couple of English exCops who have come to NZ and set up a bookshop in Havelock North, and get involved in mysteries. But - it's them ! The authors are a couple of English exCops who have set up a bookshop in Havelock North...and write detective novels. The names are slightly altered, but she has bright red hair same as in the books. Not outstanding, but good reads.
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Oh_hunnihunni - 31-08-2025
I am rereading Val Mc Dermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jorden series, in random order. It's been long enough so they are like new reads, and such page turners...
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 05-09-2025
Burial Rites, Hannah Kent, really enjoying it. Its about the last woman to be executed in Iceland. Apparently they're going to make a movie from it, with Jennifer Lawrence.
RE: What are you reading 2024 ? - Lilith7 - 08-09-2025
Now reading Girl One, Sarah Flannery Murphy.
Parthenogenesis; women no longer need males to conceive. Nine women conceive & bear children with no fathers; not everyone is delighted by this. So far,so good - definitely interesting.
https://southernreviewofbooks.com/2022/08/19/girl-one-sarah-flannery-murphy-review/