I read this around then also and would recommend
Listened to Atomic Habits over the last week. Good listen but devalued by the continuous references to Team GB Cycling.
I know I’m late to the party but I finished The Mirror and The Light - the last of Hilary Mantels Thomas Cromwell/Wolf Hall trilogy.
Not easy to get into the writing style across the three but when you do - the depth of these books and the story it tells is completely immersive. A modern day classic.
I’ve mentioned it here before but I found the audiobook a great way to get into it and made the subsequent reading a lot easier.
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I’m reading ‘Once They Moved Like The Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars’
A history of the very last Indian wars in the US which were fought by the Apache peoples… who were tough auld bastards. Geronimo the most famous of em all but he wasn’t a chief… this book tells the story of three great chiefs and the sister of one of the Chiefs - Lozen… who has been described as the Joan of arc of the Apaches. I downloaded it online and put it up on the side group for @Locke and @iron_mike to read but no grunt from either pig.
Here’s Lozen
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I have you muted on the sidegroup.
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Magic
I don’t know has my old man ever praised me much either. I don’t know did he need to. Some things are ok unsaid
You’re from Cark shure, external praise is only a by-the-by
My old man wouldn’t say a whole lot to me but he oft did quote the Shakespeare line to me - How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child
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Brilliant!
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Finished this and it’s a good read but as with most native American books, it’s a road to suffering and loss.
I’m onto another that’s native themed… The Unredeemed Captive… . this time we’re back east looking at the advent of early New England , New France and the alliances they forged with various local native populations.
It’s centred around the true story of the Williams family, prominent puritan types in the newly emerging Connecticut… who were carted off by Mohawks and the daughter goes completely native.
A good story , well written by a historian but i think a bit of creative writing has been employed where some primary source material has been in short supply. Still captures the spirit of the age despite this…
I can email any of these two books on if anyone wants them. But you’ll need an epub reader for them which is easily got via the playstore.
https://www.amazon.com/Unredeemed-Captive-Family-Story-America/dp/0679759611
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Just finished the Green Road by Anne Enright. Found it in the house. Somebody must have left it behind them. Well written but fairly standard Irish family pot boiler with a dominant and needy matriarch.
Did she win the Booker Prize for that one?
She won it fir The Gathering. I thought it was a decent book without being brilliant. The Booker winners are often like that imo.
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Shuggie Bain was different in that regard. That was a brilliant book,
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Yeah. Not for the fainthearted. I read it during lockdown and it didn’t lift the mood much!
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Speaking about Booker -I read the latest winner Orbital last week. Only 100 pages or so and quite an easy read. I enjoyed it and some of the writing and themes are great but light enough for an award as prestigious as the Booker I’d have thought
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I picked up 1996 booker winner Last Orders by Graham Swift in a charity shop over the weekend. I will report back.
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I am reading the Dom Joly book about dark tourism.
Can you shine a light on it for us?
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Reading a book called ‘James’ which is a retelling of parts of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim the slave and I think it may be a great book