Here's a roundup of some of the highlights from last week's thread.
SharonE6 says:
Reading War of the Worlds by HG Wells, I'm struck by how different an experience an alien invasion would be now. It would be all over Twitter, Facebook and YouTube within minutes. The whole world would know about it more or less instantly.
I just finished Leonardo Padura's novel, "The Man Who Loved Dogs." The work investigates the "perversion of the great utopia of the 20th century": socialism. He asserts that this utopia was wrecked by the same people who "invested their hopes" in it... Great book, excellent narration.
A series of reviews/interviews with writers who started their first books as seniors after other careers would be interesting too and very inspiring.
tenuousfives creates lists around events, authors, twitching noses, anything really. Here's this week's list, but to discover the tenuous connection between the subject and the book, you'll need to click the link:
I'm going to see Jerry Seinfeld do stand-up next week and so in honour this experience, I am going to start reading a "Seinfeld Tenuous Five".
1. The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides
2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
3. The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
4. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
5. The Trial by Franz Kafka
I would like to repeat my request for an "add book" function on the reviews section. I will spend the end of this week immersed in Kate Tempest's Everything Speaks in its Own Way, the debut collection of one of the finest poets to emerge in many many years. The book, which I will be getting my hands on tomorrow, looks like a thing of utter beauty but because it is direct sold only I can't review it here.
You do make a very good point Dan, but I'm sure we can find a solution. You also mentioned that you'd sent in a blog. I'm sorry that we don't seem to have received it, but please do use this thread to review any title we don't have a book page for on the site.
I'd like to thank everyone who pointed out the mistakes in my last blog. I'm sorry for my poor proof reading but this week I've triple checked the blog and hopefully everything should be in order. So, with that said and fingers crossed, here's this week's review list.
Non-fiction
• All in a Don's Day by Mary Beard
• Introduction to Antiphilosophy by Boris Groys
• Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son by Charlie and Roger Mortimer
• Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain by Dominic Sandbrook
• Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
• Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs by Marc Lewis
Fiction
• The Red House by Mark Haddon
• In One Person by John Irving
• Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay
• Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer
• Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears
