hindle xiii Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Perfect Sound Whatever. Breath. James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media, Being the Best You You Can Be And Saving Yourself of Loneliness Volume 1. Hinch Yourself Happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanaBull Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Was fortunate enough to receive Rob Burrow's autobiography for Christmas. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 I just bought this - http://www.reisubok.net - and it is tentatively next on my "to read" list. The blurb: "In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs from North Africa raided Iceland. They attacked settlements on the eastern and southern coasts, and on the Westman Islands off the south coast, taking close to four hundred captives away into slavery. Among those captured on the Westman Islands were the Reverend Ólafur Egilsson, a Lutheran minister in his sixties, and his family. The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson (Reisubók Séra Ólafs Egilssonar) is Reverend Ólafur’s own account of his capture in Iceland, his time as a captive in Algiers, and his subsequent travels across Europe to Denmark to raise ransom money for his wife and children. Along with Reverend Ólafur’s first-hand account, the book also contains a contemporary report on the raid based on eye witness testimony plus a series of letters written by the captives themselves. There are also Appendices presenting background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book’s early modern European context. Reverend Ólafur’s account describes both Christian and Islamic civilization in the first quarter of the seventeenth century and tells a powerful, altogether remarkable story, while the report and the letters bring to life both the harrowing details of the raid itself and the conditions the Icelandic captives endured as slaves" "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 30/12/2022 at 11:59, Phil said: Mrs Phil always gets me a couple of books for Christmas, I’m currently halfway through The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling. it’s the first book of the Strike series and I’m really enjoying it so far Excellent .,.as are the BBC TV productions (mumbling dialogue apart) The TV version is directed by Susan Tully formerly actress in East Enders. “Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlands hobo Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 (edited) Was wandering round Town looking for a book I heard about on the radio called a history of Treason. (still not got it) and found another sci fi: Provenance by Ann Leckie. It's set in the same universe as the imperial Rach trilogy (for those that have heard of ancillary justice,sword and mercy) but is not part of that series. I'm guessing a bit like rouge 1 is to the starwars films. Edited January 1 by Midlands hobo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midlands hobo Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 (edited) 1 minute ago, Midlands hobo said: Edited January 1 by Midlands hobo Fat fingers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanaBull Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 19 hours ago, Futtocks said: I just bought this - http://www.reisubok.net - and it is tentatively next on my "to read" list. The blurb: "In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs from North Africa raided Iceland. They attacked settlements on the eastern and southern coasts, and on the Westman Islands off the south coast, taking close to four hundred captives away into slavery. Among those captured on the Westman Islands were the Reverend Ólafur Egilsson, a Lutheran minister in his sixties, and his family. The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson (Reisubók Séra Ólafs Egilssonar) is Reverend Ólafur’s own account of his capture in Iceland, his time as a captive in Algiers, and his subsequent travels across Europe to Denmark to raise ransom money for his wife and children. Along with Reverend Ólafur’s first-hand account, the book also contains a contemporary report on the raid based on eye witness testimony plus a series of letters written by the captives themselves. There are also Appendices presenting background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book’s early modern European context. Reverend Ólafur’s account describes both Christian and Islamic civilization in the first quarter of the seventeenth century and tells a powerful, altogether remarkable story, while the report and the letters bring to life both the harrowing details of the raid itself and the conditions the Icelandic captives endured as slaves" You know when when you go 'ooooh!' in a rather embarrassingly uncontrolled way? Yeah. Like that. Bought. Thank you so much for this! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 1 hour ago, CanaBull said: You know when when you go 'ooooh!' in a rather embarrassingly uncontrolled way? Yeah. Like that. Bought. Thank you so much for this! Let's hope it's any good, then! 1 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pen-Y-Bont Crusader Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 My father and other working class heroes by Gary Imlach. Interesting read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeF Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 On 30/12/2022 at 11:59, Phil said: Mrs Phil always gets me a couple of books for Christmas, I’m currently halfway through The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling. it’s the first book of the Strike series and I’m really enjoying it so far I’ve got that on my TBR pile of books 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 (edited) Currently into "The Maltese Falcon" Strike has some of Sam Spade about him. Edited January 2 by JohnM “Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanaBull Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 21 hours ago, Futtocks said: Let's hope it's any good, then! Arrives today, will know shortly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Anyone else got their reading planned right through to 2025-26? I'll be reading the Kingsbridge Quartet and Milennium Trilogy series by Ken Follett in 2023. At the end of this year and through 2024, I'll be reading the Railway Detective series by Edward Marston and the new Sharpe novel that comes out later this year. In 2025, I'll be reading the Domesday Book series also by Edward Marston and probably start working through a stack of history books I've had sat about for a while which will probably take me into 2026. I read about 20 books a year at the moment or about 8,000 or so pages, hence why this year I'll probably only read about 10 books seen as the Folletts are 1,000 pages each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Christmas present: Setmakers. A History of the radio and television industry. Keith Geddes. “Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Route66 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 On 02/01/2023 at 15:19, The Hallucinating Goose said: Anyone else got their reading planned right through to 2025-26? I'll be reading the Kingsbridge Quartet and Milennium Trilogy series by Ken Follett in 2023. At the end of this year and through 2024, I'll be reading the Railway Detective series by Edward Marston and the new Sharpe novel that comes out later this year. In 2025, I'll be reading the Domesday Book series also by Edward Marston and probably start working through a stack of history books I've had sat about for a while which will probably take me into 2026. I read about 20 books a year at the moment or about 8,000 or so pages, hence why this year I'll probably only read about 10 books seen as the Folletts are 1,000 pages each. Too many books and not enough time Pillars of the earth keeps coming up on my recommendations so once I clear my backlog Ken Follett will be on my radar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 An overdue first read of David Hepworth's Overpaid, oversexed and over here. It's been on the Kindle for a while, waiting for its moment, and it is up there with Hepworth's other work. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 I'm currently reading my NHS prescription. Interesting and challenging but it's longer than Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart and highly technical into the bargain. 1 “Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.” ― Robert M. Pirsig, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxford Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Reading Dickens "Pickwick" something or other, Miriam's right he's hilarious and I think it was having to read him that stopped the enjoyment first time around. 2 warning points Non-Political Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Well there we go, after almost exactly a year of reading, last night I finished the 22 novels of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series. There was not a dull one among them. Excitement and entertainment from page one to page last. I believe in September a 23rd is being released so can't wait for that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 'Born to be Posthumous', a biography of Edward Gorey. If you don't know who Gorey was, here's a couple of examples: http://personal.victoria.ac.nz/richard_joyce/doubtful_guest.pdf http://ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/gashlycrumb-tinies.pdf "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeF Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 On 02/01/2023 at 15:19, The Hallucinating Goose said: Anyone else got their reading planned right through to 2025-26? I'll be reading the Kingsbridge Quartet and Milennium Trilogy series by Ken Follett in 2023. At the end of this year and through 2024, I'll be reading the Railway Detective series by Edward Marston and the new Sharpe novel that comes out later this year. In 2025, I'll be reading the Domesday Book series also by Edward Marston and probably start working through a stack of history books I've had sat about for a while which will probably take me into 2026. I read about 20 books a year at the moment or about 8,000 or so pages, hence why this year I'll probably only read about 10 books seen as the Folletts are 1,000 pages each. The Railway Detective series is a good read. There is also a collection of short stories so don’t forget about them! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 2 hours ago, LeeF said: The Railway Detective series is a good read. There is also a collection of short stories so don’t forget about them! I've already found the short story collection in a charity shop. I've got 6 of the novels still to find but plenty of time to do so. I started the Kingsbridge Quartet tonight with 'The Evening and the Morning'. I read the first two chapters. Wow! It was exciting! I think I may get through the Ken Folletts I'm planning on reading a lot quicker than I initially thought. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Future is League Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 I have just finished reading Where the shadows lie by Michael Ridpath. It was first published in 2010, and i enjoyed reading it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 On 08/01/2023 at 22:15, The Hallucinating Goose said: I started the Kingsbridge Quartet tonight with 'The Evening and the Morning'. I read the first two chapters. Wow! It was exciting! I think I may get through the Ken Folletts I'm planning on reading a lot quicker than I initially thought. I finished 'The Evening and the Morning' tonight. I absolutely loved it! I'm not a quick reader usually and am rather astounded I finished a 900 page book in just over two weeks. This should highlight how much I enjoyed this first volume in the series. Tomorrow I start with 'The Pillars of the Earth' and I can hardly wait! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hallucinating Goose Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 I've just found out there is a 5th book in the Kingsbridge series being released this year. Set at the end of the 18th century it moves the story of Kingsbridge on another 200 years and includes themes to do with the early years of the industrial revolution and the rise of Napoleon. The novel is called, 'The Armour of Light'. Details here: https://ken-follett.com/books/the-armour-of-light/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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