What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:01 pm

I just downloaded "Your Inner Fish" to my Kindle. Will comment when I've read it...
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Post by Animavore » Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:26 pm

Regenesis by George Monbiot.

A book about how modern farming is destroying our environment and how we can change it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Regenesis-Feed ... 024144764X
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Been a long time since I read it and still love it and lots of laughter.
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Post by macdoc » Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:14 pm

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quirky scifi - good segue from Glory Road
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:55 am

Buddy recommended this series by Ragnar Jonasson.
We spent 3 weeks in Iceland in winter including some of the towns featured in these crime novels which are character linked. Might be good timing considering the current weatherin the northern hemisphere..
Apparently there is a TV series as well.
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Post by macdoc » Tue Feb 25, 2025 10:49 pm

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an insight into aboriginal life/history...intriguing.. it's a novel with a storyline - the history is incidental.
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Post by macdoc » Wed Feb 26, 2025 9:38 pm

That was a mesmerizing read ....on to Lawrence ....yeah that Lawrence.

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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:28 pm

Add some Finnish history ....to my cultures tour via detective novels
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Tero » Sat Mar 08, 2025 12:49 am

A few of his books go a bit too far into the creepy and grotesque as far as the crime.

I guess there is also a genre where you dig up an old crime and a new crime happens, that is there too.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Tue Mar 25, 2025 10:43 pm

Well done easy to read very informative ....no fear mongering √ Lots of history I did not know
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:36 am

A long read coming up. Can't afford to buy the BluRay set
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:55 am

Is that a read or a listen? So far I've listened to precisely one audiobook: Mortality by C Hitchens, narrated by Simon Prebble (who did a good job of honouring Hitch's distinctive oration style without it sounding like an impression).
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by JimC » Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:46 pm

I can remember listening to a radio reading of Lord of the Rings, 40 or 50 years ago. No idea of who did it, but from memory it was pretty good...
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by macdoc » Wed Apr 02, 2025 12:06 am

It does say I'm reading :roll:
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