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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.
ÔÇ£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 ÔÇô the interests of the two are diametrically opposed.ÔÇØ
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.
ÔÇ£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 ÔÇô the interests of the two are diametrically opposed.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£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/