Ben Ryan- sevens heaven about his running Fiji sevens program to the Olympics is one of best sports books around. Ryan narrates himself.
Slow getting up is about a rank and file NFL player. Again he narrates himself.
Beautiful Boy- david sheff.
Bad Blood- story of the theranus fraud
Disrupted- story about a journalist who goes to work at a start up in his 50s hoping to hop onto an IPO. Fish out of water story.
The David Goggins book on mental toughness is decent too. Crazy cunt.
‘the master and margarita’ or ‘things fall apart’. Proper thundering books that people will be reading in a thousand years. Assuming you’ve already read polllans book about the mushrooms.
Master and Margerita is one you have to stick with though.
It’s the book flann o’brien would have written if he’d had a point to make
No mate. I’ll raise the kids first and I expect to spend a large part of my mid 50s dabbling in this stuff. Sure Phil Hogan want to pull the rug out from under the sucklers… So what else will he have for doing? Sow a fee trees and pick a few shrooms.
All We Shall Know sounds like it could be a winner.
Was in a rush the last day in O’Mahoney’s when I picked up the Low and Quiet Sea one, it’s a good while since I’ve put away some time in there. I’ve a hankering to attempt an auld Gaeilge leabhar at some stage and I’m long overdue a read of a Flann O’Brien book - An Béal Bocht would tick both boscaí nicely.
Thank me and trust me. But not in that order.
Must be twenty years since I read it.
Behind her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough is a great Audiobook. Thriller mystery genre.
But you haven’t forgotten
Did you ever read any of the Boris Akunin detective books? Set in Tsarist Russia.
No. We were expecting our first kid at the time.
No. Should I?
I enjoyed them. A bit quirky.
That’ll do. I take it you watched ‘the method’
I haven’t actually. Worth a look?
Definitely
Sure you’d be happy just watching Paulina Andreeva standing round with her hands in her pockets
The Donal Ryan short story collection is excellent. Just read it. I won’t bother doing it a disservice by trying to explain