Books you've read in 2023

Ag said:
Ooh lovely. Cheers. Flights seems to be the one with most acclaim.
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I hope you didn't get this one because the translation renders it unreadable. Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead or Primeval And Other Times are a much better starting point. Both are amazing and are translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones rather than the apparently totally inept Jennifer Croft.
 
Zu 2 said:
I hope you didn't get this one because the translation renders it unreadable. Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead or Primeval And Other Times are a much better starting point. Both are amazing and are translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones rather than the apparently totally inept Jennifer Croft.
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Not yet, she's still on my list, so yeah cheers thanks a lot.
 
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Well I just finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I knew very little about her, aside from her death, so it was a fascinating, if rather grim insight.
 
Just finished ‘I am not Raymond Wallace’ by Sam Kenyon

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Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the 'explosion of overt homosexuality' in the city. On an undercover assignment, a secret world is revealed to Raymond: a world in which he need no longer pretend to be something or someone he cannot be; a world in which he meets Joey. Like so many men of his time and of his kind, Raymond faces a choice between conformity, courage and compartmentalisation. The decision he makes will ricochet destructively through lives and decades until-in another time, another city; in Paris, 2003-Raymond's son Joe finally meets Joey. And the healing begins.
 
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I'm reading the 7 moons of thingummy wotsit or I would be if i could focus my fucking eyes
 
Yeah The Shards was a flop. Thank god it’s finally over!
 
Trying to decide what to read next. Tempted to go for "Rule Britannia", Daphne du Maurier's last novel about the UK leaving the EU before we even joined.
 
now I started reading the triumphant captain of my star - they say it changes people's lives in the right direction. This is about a saint
 
Jocasta Clun said:
I'm reading the 7 moons of thingummy wotsit or I would be if i could focus my fucking eyes
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I'm feeling a bit better now and I am of course referring here to NOTED BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 'THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA'
 
I finished Lonesome Dove last night. This could be recency bias, but its among the best books I've ever read. It's about cowboys in Texas in the 1870s, which isn't a topic I would generally care about, but the characters and their dynamics were so great. There's also a character I'm ready to call a gay icon
 
I started All The Light We Cannot See. Has anyone read it?
 
RJN said:
I started All The Light We Cannot See. Has anyone read it?
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Yes. I thought it was slow but very good.

I'm listening to In Memoriam by Alice Winn and reading One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattachary.

Book club book is The Road by McCarthy, but I've read that already and know my reread will be quick so taking these ones slowly.
 
I’m in a William Burroughs mood for the 2023 season. That being said it’s on pause while I make my way through Jessus Ware’s delightful Omelette on this Easter Sunday
 
has anyone read this?

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at first I was really into it but about 150 pages in I'm equal parts enjoying and frustrated. the characters feel so undercooked, I can't get a sense of who they are. it's all plot plot plot.

and the depictions of a disabled kid (or someone with a fucked up foot) are just pissing me off. like his foot is literally bleeding and has metal pieces coming out of it and nobody insists he goes to the hospital because designing a game is just sooo much more important. please!

still wanna see where it's going though :D
 
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Jark said:
has anyone read this?

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at first I was really into it but about 150 pages in I'm equal parts enjoying and frustrated. the characters feel so undercooked, I can't get a sense of who they are. it's all plot plot plot.

and the depictions of a disabled kid (or someone with a fucked up foot) are just pissing me off. like his foot is literally bleeding and has metal pieces coming out of it and nobody insists he goes to the hospital because designing a game is just sooo much more important. please!

still wanna see where it's going though :D
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It's been on my list for a while but I'm not sure your review is encouraging me now!
 
I finished The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. I think he's becoming one of my all time favorite authors. The book was so bleak but so well written.
 
In book club we've covered The Road by Cormac McCarthy (read already but love) and Nevada by Imogen Binnie (came round to loving this one too) in the last two months. Next book is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sheehan Karunatilaka.

Otherwise I've just finished The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan, and I'm about to finish Close to Home by Michael Magee. Both great - the latter is a debut from a local writer and I'll be very sad to finish it.
 
Rowan Tree 🌳 said:
In book club we've covered The Road by Cormac McCarthy (read already but love) and Nevada by Imogen Binnie (came round to loving this one too) in the last two months. Next book is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sheehan Karunatilaka.

Otherwise I've just finished The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan, and I'm about to finish Close to Home by Michael Magee. Both great - the latter is a debut from a local writer and I'll be very sad to finish it.
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I’ve got the Michael Magee in my ‘to read’ pile.
 
I've been having a very non-fiction/biography 2023 with my book choices.
 
My reading has really come to a halt this year. :(

Currently reading a lovely Greek classic called Three Summers, but it’s been almost a month and I’ve only just got halfway through it. I don’t seem to have the patience for reading right now.
 
Girls I was QUITE THRILLED to find THE SHARDS in the BIBLIOTHEQUE as I've always liked a bit of B.E.E. and so far so GAY SEX
 
I have started reading my third Madame M (Iris Murdoch), Under the Net. Already and yet again enthralled and intrigued by her writing. This is her first novel and I hope it will be as exciting as the others I’ve read.
 
Jocasta Clun said:
Girls I was QUITE THRILLED to find THE SHARDS in the BIBLIOTHEQUE as I've always liked a bit of B.E.E. and so far so GAY SEX
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DARLING the hard back has been on my BEDSIDE for months now. PLEASE DO tell me how you get on as I need some ENCOURAGEMENT.
 
Madame S said:
DARLING the hard back has been on my BEDSIDE for months now. PLEASE DO tell me how you get on as I need some ENCOURAGEMENT.
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I really enjoyed it. In fact I was up until ALL HOURS last night to get to the end as it was getting quite UNPUTDOWNABLE.

NEXT I am reading LESSONS by IAN MCEWAN unless some cunt requests it from the library in which case I'll never get through it as it's another THICK ONE :ken:
 
I have started Mel C's memoirs and I am not getting along fast with it. I shall take it on holiday later this month and persevere. I like her and admire her, but she's just not as interesting as Geru
 
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