No Shortcuts: Organizing for power in the new gilded age by Jane McAlevey. If you are a leadership type I suggest it. Organizing labor is important given the times we are in.
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Interesting, will check it out. How are you liking it so far?
Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner
It's a memoir by one of the handful of Uboat Captains who survived WWII.
That's an interesting topic. How are you liking the book?
Just finished the latest Jack Reacher novel. Standard Reacher Murder She Wrote with a giant as protagonist plot template. I find the Reacher novels helpful if I’m having a rough week and need a low cognitive load book. Working on Candle & Crowe now, which is the third book in Kevin Hearne’s Ink & Sigil series set in his Iron Druid universe. It’s also good for a bit of cheerful escapism, but not a pulp novel.
I recently started the Jack Reacher series and got the first 3 books (though have only read the first one yet). They are much longer than I expected them to be. Are all books in the series like that?
It didn't get boring so I don't mind the length, just curious about it.
I haven’t considered them to be very long, but maybe I’ve read too many Sanderson novels. They all tend to have the same pacing and plot devices. It’s been long enough since I read the first few that I can’t remember if they get shorter or longer. The more recent ones where Andrew Child co-authors seem shorter to me.
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Hey Dressy!
Hope you are well, bet you can't guess what I've been listening to ;p So as always Deathlands has been on rotation and I am just finishing number 25 and still enjoying it.
Other than those I listened to a couple of Goosebumps books. They were fun, I'm not sure how old your son / daughter (?) is but I would suggest giving one a try if they are interested in reading some light horror. They weren't to graphic but still enough to instill a good, slightly unsettling image in parts that I imagine someone younger would find a little scary but in a good way if they were interested in horror as a genre. I remember enjoying them a lot when I was around the age of 10 and may be a little bit simplistic for say a teenager but it was an engaging story and well written.
I also listened to "The Others" by Jeremy Robinson which is the second book in the Infinite series of books. It was a really good book that I couldn't stop listening to and blazed through really quickly. It reminded me a lot of Dean Koontz stories in the way it was written, it had supernatural elements as well as a group of people vs government type agencies vs a supernatural element sort of interplay similar to the way his stories often go. I'm looking forward to what the rest of the Infinite series holds and enjoyed it a lot more than the first book!
So, after reading this, I finally decided to buy the first Deathlands book right away, it's about time I at least check it out.
Well, it turns out they aren't available anywhere. Not even as ebooks. Only audiobooks are available. Amazon (not my place of choice to buy ebooks) also has only book 48 and 49 available, rest are audiobooks only.
On a positive side, one less series to worry about!
Thanks for the recommendation. He is around 10, and likes horror / spooky stuff. Will get first book or two and see if he likes them.
Infinite series seems pretty interesting. Will check them out in a few months, hopefully they have better availability than Deathlands 😀
Oh, that's a shame to hear about Deathlands, can't win them all I guess!
In terms of Goosebumps the two titles that stand out in my mind from when I was a child (not that I remember the plots now) are Monster Blood and Night Of The Living Dummy. I believe both of them have a few books continuing the stories as they were popular too, so those may be good ones to start with :)
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I'm currently reading "The Coming Insurrection" by "The Invisible Committee"
How are you liking it?
I am loving it. It is written in a very poetic language and really makes you reflect. In my case, it also generates a nihilistic feeling towards society and the possibility of change. It is a call to insurrection; it shows you, in an aesthetic and philosophical way, that there is no other way out but rebellion.
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Just finished The Waiting by Michael Connelly and haven't started the next book yet.
How is the series? I have The Black Echo (first Harry Bosch) book but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
I love it, read all the books. I particularly enjoy the Lincoln lawyer series, but Bosch is great too. I read them in order starting with The Black Echo, and the series is consistently good. It's worth reading in order to have an understanding of Bosch's career and life progression.
I'd say Michael Connelly is my favorite author. The only book I didn't really enjoy was "Chasing the Dime".
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October by China Mieville
Perfect month to read it in!
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow. It's an anthology of four short stories that all share a common theme of dystopian applications of technology. So in other words... Pretty much on brand for the author and it's well done so far.
Kind of like Black Mirror (TV show)?
Nah the stories are a little more hopeful. Like one about toasters that work like a Keurig machine and this refugee community learning how to hack them to work on unauthorized products after the company whose servers that authorize the bread goes bankrupt.
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Just started listening to the audiobook version of Robert Caro's "The Power Broker," about Robert Moses and New York. Will also check out the book from library in case it has pictures or diagrams.
99% Invisible did a 10-part series on the book this year, so will be toggling back and forth to hear the commentary as well.
The audiobook is around 60 hours. Guessing this all will keep me busy for a couple of months.
Just finished "The Message," by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Highly recommended.
I just finished listening to We Are Legion (We Are Bob). It was a fun one to listen to and easy to follow even whilst working which meant I blitzed through it.
Now I’ve gotta wait almost a month for my next credit :( Not sure what I’ll try next though, I don’t usually bother with sci-fi but I’ve been on the lookout for something after finishing The Three-Body Problem trilogy. Nothing is really hitting the mark currently.
Am I the only one irked by the improper grammar on this weekly post going back months? How has it not been corrected yet? In a community full of readers.