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"Moving", by Jenny Eclair. The first part is told from the point of view of a slightly batty old lady who has decided to sell her house in London after 50 years. The second part is told from the point of view of a posh girl from Godalming turned slutty art student in Manchester in the 80s. Not sure where it's going yet but I like the writing style. It reminds me of Capital by John Lanchester or Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig.
You?
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Iris Murdoch. Don’t want to get more specific as don’t want to out myself if caught reading it in public.
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Quiet by Susan Cain
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God that sounds like the shyttest book since Proust finally shut the fck up
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Yeah we are not all fascinated by naval history, Wang.
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Not fascinated by naval history?
Well that doesn’t sound healthy.
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Am am intrigued as to what you think I am currently reading Anna to give rise to that snark. As it goes, it is a crime thriller about a forensic expert by simon beckett.
I do like naval history, as it goes.
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What wang said. Go get some Pratchett or sommat.
I am reading, errm nothing, nothing at all. Which is really pathetic and depressing tbh but things have been a bit mental of late.
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and previously
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As it happens I finished a crime thriller yesterday (which wasn't very good) and before that I read "Unnatural Causes", a non-fiction book about forensic pathology by Dr Richard Shepherd (which was very good).
I have eclectic tastes. I'm enjoying this book so far but will reserve judgement until I've finished it.
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Nice picture of traumatico there, sitting on the beach writing out a list of all the people he hates.
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Invisible Women
it keeps making me angry tho so I have to keep stopping
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that's not me, I've got a lot more muscle
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I am reading the new Stieglitz and also that sex memoir I mentioned last week
#balance
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ps same re invisible women, hoolz! I almost just want to accept it exists and stop reading.
did you see the guy on twitter saying it is "terfy" because it pursues an agenda of women being biologically different?
that guy previously tried to be a feminist to get chicks but it didn't work and I guess now he's mad
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ahem
*stiglitz
I could pretend that was autocorrect but I actually thought there was an E
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I did what a fooking moron. The beauty of them calling every woman who dares to say there is any biological diff between men and women a "terf" is it shows the whole house of cards up for the nonsense it is.
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My fave book in a long while.
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I have just started Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. And I had a GoodReads email yesterday and now want to read:
1. Raised In Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction by Chuck Klosterman
2. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3. The Lightest Object in the Universe: Kimi Eisele
4. This Is How You Lose The Time War: Amal El-Mohtar
And I have a million tons of unread books on my Kindle. Need to start digging into them.
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Everything I Know About Love brought back so much nostalgia for me. Even though I couldn't really decide whether Dolly sounded like the very worst kind of rah girls we used to avoid at uni, or somebody I might be friends with now. Possibly a bit of both. But I love the way she writes about female friendships.
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I am only on the first bit when she's talking about flirting with boys on MSN messenger. It makes me feel old but nostalgic! I will be reading more sur la plage a la week-end.
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I would like to read more about "intelligence" agencies and their criminal ways but they do a great job keeping the info available very light
I very much recommend and have recommended in the past:
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I'm reading the Infiltrator which is the tale of a US customs agent who posed as a drugs money launderer for years and was partly responsible for taking down BCCI after it helped him move cash round the world.
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Nearly finished vol 3 of the John Jakes North & South trilogy - 2,000 pages down, 600 to go
I had Erebus lined up next but I have just downloaded Invisible Women
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Just finished Portrait of a Lady - it was slow and James can be a slog but ultimately very intriguing.
Before that Steinbeck's the Wayward Bus - great fun, like an Altman movie hopping between vivid characters.
who needs modern shit?
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Queenie has reminded me I tried reading a Ford Maddox Ford trilogy but gave up part of the way into the first book because it was so dull.
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I read The Good Soldier a few years ago and that was fooking dull.
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Everyone who hasn't already read station 11 should immediately. Read it over a year ago still think about it
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Invisible women is a typical woman's book: a long whinge. Main whinge is that there is no female Viagra. It was invented so that women could have pleasure!! There's nothing as good as having a good moan.
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HEH @ the idea that viagra was invented with female pleasure in mind.
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tbf there's also the women more likely to die horribly in car crashes
someone on the twitter is saying she doesn't believe the average woman weighs less than 76kg (as stated in the book). She reckons the author probably chose this as she weighs that. The tweeter then goes on to say she weighs over 100kg so lots of other women msut too.
100kg!
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You haven't read the book right hotnow
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sounds like he has read the arthur chu cliffnotes
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And it was probably a man that invented the ribbed condom. And all we get in return is grief.
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I genuinely think I don't experience a lot of problems many women do navigating the built environment because I'm taller and heavier than the average woman.
for years my skinnier shorter female colleagues have moaned they are cold in the office when I am fine for example
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I don't extrapolate that to assume most women are like me tho
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It was invented so that women could have pleasure!!
Actually, it was an accidental discovery during research into heart medication.
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Christ. The 6ft7 rower I dated at uni weighed less than that!
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And the kind of men who need viagra are probably the same kind of men that women wish would finish more quickly.
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"And the kind of men who need viagra are probably the same kind of men that women wish would finish more quickly."
heh!
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I share the temperature thing, Hoolie. Get annoyed when those cardigan women start huffing.
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Fairly sure Viagra was invented as a heart medicine and that its priapic side effect was accidental. Strutter and Cookie told me.
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So what I just said, then....
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Dracula the un-dead by Dacre Stoker. It's shit, but I'm determined to finish it so I can move on to the All Souls trilogy.
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My two non-fictions on the go at the moment are:
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a master class in investigative journalism.
Do Dice Play God, The Mathematics of Uncertainty - what it says on the tin but very well constructed.
And my bedtime fiction is A Game of Thrones (probably the last person in the world yet to read it)
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Dusters... ...you just got mansplained and ignored in one hit.
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Dusty I did not think hotnow would pay heed to a female personage opining on scientific matters...
;o)
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Sails, The Infiltrator sounds like a good complement to ‘Mr Cleaner’ which is an autobiography of Bruce Aiken, one of whose clients was the CIA. He now has a radio programme on Sunday evenings focussed on people from Africa who are in prison in Hong Kong - a small, captive market
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Cold Comfort Farm and Sapiens.
Cold Comfort Farm is odd. I'm not sure I like it but will read to the end to find out where it goes.
I'm not usually a non-fiction person but Sapiens is really interesting.
I've nearly finished CCF so need another fiction read to move on to.
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Fluffy, how does Directorate S compare with Ghost Wars, assuming that you have read it?
Ghost Wars was one of the best non-fiction books I have ever read.
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Dusters... ...you just got mansplained and ignored in one hit.
Ugh, the struggle is real.
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‘Keeping Bees in Horizontal Hives: A Complete Guide to Apiculture’ by Georges de Layens
Yes, I’m getting a buzz from it
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Rof
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A sale and purchase agreement
I may need to get out rather more...
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Sapient is excellent. The sequel Homo Deus less so. But of course predictions about the future (stupid phrase what else can you make predictions about) are bound to be less compelling that explanations of the past and present. But still worth reading
Cold Comfort Farm! Gosh that takes me back
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Supes, yes I have read Ghost Wars, another masterpiece. In Dir S you have Steve Coll's brilliant skills uncovering, in sublimely written detail, how the US involvement in South Asia became a complete clusterf*ck...
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hey super - was ghost wars the book you recommended to me? or did you recommend a movie Re intelligence agencies?
please tell me again now that I have a bit of time
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Probably. I have recommended it a lot to folks who want to know anything about Afghanistan, Pakistan and the lead up to 9/11.
I have a copy of Directorate S but haven't been in the mood to read it yet.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Wars-Secret-History-Afghanistan/dp/0141020806
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ah no, you recommended citizen four, right?
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I think Mein Kampf is more you, DD.
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Badders - you're aware that you're not funny? you don't even try do ya
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Jesus. That's like Charles Manson accusing David Koresh of being a sicko.
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That too, if you are a Snowdon fan it is a must see.
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I was going to post the thing about viagra being a by-product of heart research but then thought hotnow was probably just joking/trying to get a rise out of the fettes and it would be a bit sad to do the dweeb thing when clearly he could not think it was actually invented for the purpose of female pleasure. I can't tell whether I have underestimated how clear it was or overestimated hotnow's sense of humour.
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Surely it is quite difficult to underestimate hotnow's sense of humour.
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Goose - is poes law of the internet in action. Parody is indistinguishable from sincerity- in particular by those who hold bigoted views
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Like "lefties", I assume?
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Some on the left some on the right some non-aligned. If your analysis of bigotry stops at that spectrum u need to go back to uni.
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Nexis I think you'll find there's summat nasty in the woodshed.
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Self-awareness fail right there.
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where the crawdads sing - which isn’t doing a lot for me
a book on the ecology of the chihuahuan desert
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Crawdad... That's a word I'd never heard before.
The book does sound like it could be a little...dry.
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Just finished The 8 Mountains by paolo cognetti which was one of the Daunt subscription picks. Didn’t like the translation.
just started Siri Husvedt’s What I Loved. Liking it so far (also just read the new Charles Cumming which was trashy. Surprisingly so. I have had a bad run of books set in Morocco - that Tangerine which is billed as a cross between Patricia highsmith and Donna Tartt was possibly the worst book of the millennium)
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I am reading The Magus by John Fowles. I read it every few years or so.
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How long does it take you to read it?
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Hehe!
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Thinking Slow and Fast
it's brilliant
though it's taking me fooking ages at about 1.5 pages a night
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What is so brilliant about it?
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it's about how we think
and the difference between conscious and unconscious thought processes
it's enlightening and humbling and should be compulsory reading for every human being
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That sounds right up my alley Heff. Added it to my Kindle.
Have you read Susan Cain's book? I am tempted to say that it too should be required reading for all human beings, especially the more introverted (or parents of introverts).
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Heff, does it cover neuro differences in how people process things? Or does it generalise a bit more.
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