36 books in 2025. The first two Wolf Hall books probably the best, but I liked The Savage Detectives, Into Thin Air, O Caledonia, How To Hide an Empire, and The Anarchy a lot too. Feel free to add me on The Storygraph if you use it!
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Look at this cat
Got my first one of these
I went to Crewe, a town with a significant eastern European population.
Crewe Alexandra are looking to use multiculturalism as a competitive advantage, which I think is really cool
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I have faith in Lee Bell but I genuinely cannot remember the last time I saw us play well at home.
Oh, he talks about these sisters in his memoirs. Sounds like a very Herzogian story.
I wish my cat would wait until 7am to do that
It's a little bit snowy here
Have you ever encountered an Australian cricket fan?
I'm not an American Football fan but FNL was a great story. I find Wilson a bit hit and miss but he's excellent at this kind of biography, and it's definitely one I'd recommend.
Sports books I really enjoyed were The Test - Nathan Leamon, Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson - Gideon Haigh, Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger, No Questions Asked: How Football Joined the Crypto Con - Martin Calladine, Two Brothers - Jonathan Wilson.
At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enríquez
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America - Rick Perlstein
Finger Bone - Hiroki Takahashi
Epitaph for a Spy - Eric Ambler
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
In no particular order, the best books I have read in 2024:
Beastings - Benjamin Myers
Paradaís - Fernanda Melchor
A Helping Hand - Celia Dale
A Flat Place - Noreen Masud
All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami
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What a great cat!
I thought it was Martin Clunes
They're so incredibly thick. I can't tell if they're missing the point on purpose if they're simply the thickest people on the planet.
Just arrived back in Delhi to find the city embalmed in an all-enveloping burial shroud of pollution. I've never seen anything like this in forty years of living here. What a fate for the City of Djinns- still, at its best the most fascinating of cities, but currently a tragic, choking death-trap.
Here's Phoebe
🇲🇦 it's good here
Usually got 4 on the go:
Non fiction book
Fiction book
Something on the kindle
Audiobook
The kindle books and audiobooks take longer as I spend most of my time reading physical books.
Hiya
"I'm Alive" from that album is a song that always properly makes me smile
You too, mate. Nice here, isn't it
Makes sense, I'm sure it's true and this week's influx must be a particularly large one!
£250+ in the kitty for this round of LFS! Deadline is Friday, and we are picking from Saturday's League Two games.
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#CreweAlex
Probably David Diop - At Night All Blood is Black
I'm fairly new to Bluesky. So far, it seems to be mainly people congratulating themselves for being on a platform that is nicer than Twitter. Hope we move past that soon.
