Books: What book are you reading right now

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From: Rapparee
Date: 26 May 19 - 06:40 PM

“How chance and stupidity have changed history” by Erik Durshmied.

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 27 May 19 - 05:46 AM

Born to Run by Michael Morpurgo - about a greyhound!!

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 May 19 - 04:43 PM

I have almost finished working my way through Jonathan Kellerman's "Alec Delaware" series and am on with "Private Eyes".

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From: keberoxu
Date: 30 May 19 - 03:02 PM

"Heir to the Shadows" by Anne Bishop,
which has mind-speaking dogs --
a precursor to her talking wolves.
As the title suggests,
the fantasy in this book is dark,
so the sapient dogs are a welcome relief.

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 May 19 - 02:33 PM

Any recommendations for a scifi something short?

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From: Joe_F
Date: 31 May 19 - 06:03 PM

H. L. Mencken's diary.

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From: Jack Campin
Date: 31 May 19 - 06:20 PM

Peter Singer's little book on Hegel.

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From: The Sandman
Date: 01 Jun 19 - 01:18 PM

DeValera by David McCullagh

Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Jun 19 - 07:49 AM

Daphne Du Maurier's "Rule Britannia". Future dystopian novel about Brexit written in 1972 and set a few years later. The UK has pulled out of the EU after a rigged referendum and is under armed occupation by the US and its British collaborators. I'm only a short way into it and so far she's spent time developing her cast of very odd but completely convincing characters than in working out the political issues, but iit's looking good. I don't think it's been reprinted recently, which seems really odd.

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From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Jun 19 - 04:06 AM

I must look that one up, Jack. Sounds very prophetic!

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From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 04:17 AM

I'm reading "Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead. In this book, the "railroad" is an actual underground train. I hesitated to read it because it sounded a bit too weird, like steampunk. But I soon got used to the device and got hooked. It's a fascinating book.
Joe

Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now
From: DMcG
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 07:21 AM

I am reading Invisible Women : Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men"


Here is clip from one review:
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.

If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women's lives.

From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women.

A book like this could easily be a polemical attack on how horrible men are: it is not. It is a calm, thorough account of the scientific basis of many bias issues. So much so that it has recently won the Royal Society science boom prize.

It is one of those books that would make a great textbook for senior school 'personal development' courses.

Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now
From: DMcG
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 07:32 AM

Sorry to go on about it, but an article based on an extract from "Invisible Women" is here

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From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 05:05 PM

"Feathering your Nest"
by an Australian columnist,
about keeping a clean and tidy house

--written while said columnist
was on maternity leave
with her newborn son.

Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 05:10 PM

Another book about "The Real Peaky Blinders".

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From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 08:33 PM

Have just finished (at long last) C J Sansom's 'Tombland, concerning the 1549 Peasants Revolt lead by Robert Kett
this 7 volume 'Richard Shardlake' series has, in my opinion, marked Sansom out as Britain's finest historical novelist - this seems to be the best yet
Sansom has been quite ill, hence the gap - cant wait for the next

Just started Edna O'Brien's 'In the forest' - a depressingly violent fictionalised account of the effects of the equally depressingly violent treatment meted out to an Irish boy left in clerical care in my home County, Clare
Worth reading - so far - if you're in the mood for it
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Nov 19 - 07:55 PM

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action, nonfiction, about a legal proceeding because of pollution from two factories that seeped into wells in Woburn, MA, causing a high rate of leukemia in children who drank the water from those wells. Hard to read, hard to put down.

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 19 - 05:03 PM

Kindle finally got all the Dick Francises so I am rereading them. I'm up to Whip Hand [publication order].

Subject: RE: Books: What book are you reading right now
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Nov 19 - 06:30 PM

H. L. Mencken's (What? Him again? I do read books by other people) _A New [1942] Dictionary of Quotations_. Among quotation books, it is weird. There is no index, so it is useless for looking up a quotation; but it has copious cross references, so for browsing it is supreme.