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#ReadFiftyTwo This week I have mostly been reading Shigidi and the brass head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi- definitely a series to watch- and The way through the woods, by Long Litt Woon- fungi, and grieving by a writer with a forensic sense of both.
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading EmpireWorld by Sathnam Sanghera, and the terrific Newborn by @ThatKerryHudson, a viscerally authentic account of pregnancy, early motherhood and serious illness in a foreign city in the time of COVID. A lifetime in a few years.
for my fiction #ReadFiftyTwo book of the year Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead stood out - an author at the very top of her game, cleverly weaving the structure of David Copperfield through the concerns and traumas of contemporary America, especially the opiate crisis…
..into #ReadFiftyTwo before I really felt my reading muscles were back on form, something I am determined not to lose again. During #Read2023 I read 74 non fiction books and 22 fiction- a tendency to non-fiction being something that I have noticed as people get older…
Before #ReadFiftyTwo I had always been a reader, but definitely felt my attention span was declining - blame Twitter or age or simple busyness, I was not sustaining reading in the way I once did, and I wanted to rebuild that ability- I would say it took about six months…
The #ReadFiftyTwo challenge is one of the few #NewYearsResolutions I have managed to honour throughout the entire year- all in all, I read 96 books. You can track my progress through the Sunday posts I did every single week, but here’s a summary of what I did and what I learned…
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have been mostly reading all things Octopus with Many things under a rock by David Scheel.
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading the tour de force that is Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead- astonishing sweep of human nature and an America devastated by opioids by an author at the height of her powers. And a book on Volcanoes, fascinating on Tibesti.
On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming (2019) 301pp
A pint & a book: Engrossing work, Tennyson quoted so aptly:
The drain-cut levels of the marshy lea -
Gray sand banks, and pale sunsets - dreary wind,
Dim shores, dense rains, and heavy-clouded sea.
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#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading the brilliant and witty Black Ops and Beaver Bombing, an account of some of Britain’s most interesting mammals. And an eye popping account of influenza written in 2018 - prescient on the COVID Pandemic in so many ways.
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading Humanly Possible, by Sarah Bakewell, one of the few authors who can make you feel clever just by reading her. An account of humanistic thought from ancient times, it’s my book of the year so far.
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading Extraordinary Women, Compton MacKenzie’s entertaining account of lesbian romance in WW1 Capri, and To Battersea Park: boredom, confinement and repetition in lockdown, leavened by imaginative flights.
Farewell to the Westerns by Geoffrey Kitchenside (1975)
Was it really 52 years since I traipsed around the West Country in search of Western Leviathan only to get Monarch? Halcyon days of railway memorably documented by 70 black & white pages.Superb.
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Craft: an argument by Pete Brown.
More discussion than argument, but very comprehensive. Why the codification/taxonomy of beer takes over from the taste is anyone's guess. If you love beer, read this book.
I'm off to the bar for a pint of bitter.
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#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading Skin Game by Jim Butcher, an American contribution to the surprisingly fertile magical detective genre. And also Hags by Victoria Smith on Kindle.
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading The Golden Mole, by Katherine Rundell, an elegiac series of essays on both weird and wonderful animals in the world, such as the Golden Mole, and the weird and wonderful in mundane animals such as the spider and the crow.
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have still mostly been reading Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The World: a family history (more murder, mayhem and mutilation) on Kindle so no pic, and Monty Don and Derry Moore’s Venetian Gardens for some escape from powerful people being vile.
#ReadFiftyTwo this week I have mostly been reading The World: a family history by Simon Sebag Montefiore (might, massacres, molestation) on kindle so no pic. And the Brexit Tapes by John Bull.
Samuel Beckett ~ A Biography by Deirdre Bair (1978) 624pp
It would be difficult to come upon another writer who has so lived through his art that it has become the substance of his life.
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#ReadFiftyTwo This week I have mostly been reading Bibliomaniac, featuring our very own @sheenbookshop, - at worst a list, at best a fascinating travelogue around the corners of Britain less celebrated but filled with books. And a fascinating essay collection by Helen MacDonald.
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