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Great, thanks.
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Big Footy Book Club
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Yes, I read that earlier this year.
Have you read Desert Star? I think he has another one out in November.
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The last book I read was "Travelling with Ghosts' a memoir about an American woman who lost her Australian fiance while on holiday in Thailand. One minute they were swimming the ocean, next minute he was collapsing + dying on the shore from a jellyfish sting. It flicks back and forth between three stages in time, her relationship with her fiance, her experience straight after his death, then 6 months afterwards and her travelling overseas on her own.
Even though the story was so sad and I was in tears several times throughout the book, I could not put this down. Was really well written.
Next up is "All that I forgot"
A gripping memoir that reads like a psychological thriller... What if you woke up in hospital one day thinking you were a girl aged nine, when instead you were a grown woman with a child? What if you could not remember giving birth to your daughter, did not know who your husband was or even remember how to read and write?
And I got "Woke up this morning: The definitive oral history of The Sopranos" on order at the library.
Even though the story was so sad and I was in tears several times throughout the book, I could not put this down. Was really well written.
Next up is "All that I forgot"
A gripping memoir that reads like a psychological thriller... What if you woke up in hospital one day thinking you were a girl aged nine, when instead you were a grown woman with a child? What if you could not remember giving birth to your daughter, did not know who your husband was or even remember how to read and write?
And I got "Woke up this morning: The definitive oral history of The Sopranos" on order at the library.
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Just about to start it.
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It's very good.
Dark Sacred Night had me gripped. The whole dentist thing was nuts and when they got to that facility I could not put it down.
Feraligatr
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Books I've read this year:
Killer show - about the Station nightclub fire
Fifty-Six: The story of the Bradford fire. About the Bradford FC stadium fire
The only plane in the sky - people recounting their experiences on 11th September. Very sad and harrowing book
Now reading 1986.
Killer show - about the Station nightclub fire
Fifty-Six: The story of the Bradford fire. About the Bradford FC stadium fire
The only plane in the sky - people recounting their experiences on 11th September. Very sad and harrowing book
Now reading 1986.
Feraligatr
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Yeah
I like stuff about disasters. I think it comes from when I used to be in Emergency Services, i've got a morbid curiousity about it. I like the seconds to disaster style of the lead up, the incident and the fall out.
I also like reading people's accounts of things and stuff like that. My next book I want to read is about Hillsborough.
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Looked this up at my library they have it- but then checked my loan history. I read this book three years ago, I thought it sounded familiar.
Ok this is just spooky now, I then looked up this subject. They have a couple of books on Hillsborough, which I'm going to request in the near future.
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I've just started "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11"
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*and did not finish it.
Just started Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly
Just started Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly
Dogs_R_Us
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I've gone back to the start of the Bosch series, up to Book 6. I think I've read a few of the later ones.
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Finished We Own This City (HBO series of the same name is excellent).
Found the book to be a slog to be honest. Very informative, but super wordy and despite being only 282 pages it feels a lot longer. A book I was glad to have finished. Based on the corrupt cops in the Baltimore PD who stole, blackmailed and robbed people and were eventually caught.
The Witness is another one I just finished too. Good but not great. Got pretty repetitive at times, and there are parts of this books that are some the most uncomfortable things I have read - and I have read more than my fair share of true crime.
Currently reading Cry Baby by Mark Billingham. Enjoying it so far.
Found the book to be a slog to be honest. Very informative, but super wordy and despite being only 282 pages it feels a lot longer. A book I was glad to have finished. Based on the corrupt cops in the Baltimore PD who stole, blackmailed and robbed people and were eventually caught.
The Witness is another one I just finished too. Good but not great. Got pretty repetitive at times, and there are parts of this books that are some the most uncomfortable things I have read - and I have read more than my fair share of true crime.
Currently reading Cry Baby by Mark Billingham. Enjoying it so far.
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Finished it now, was absolutely brilliant. Learnt a lot of things from that era I previously did not know, particularly JFK's life before being president. The description of the actual assassination is chilling, it goes into a lot of detail.
9/10
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Just finished this. An amazing life no doubt, but about 3/4 of the way through I just felt sorry for this bloke, his life seemed incredibly lonely (most of it anyway- and started off that way as a kid being quarantined for 5 years with polio)- and all the money in the world cannot counteract that. At least i dont think it can.
Great book tho, I could not put it down. 9/10
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Picked this up last week.
A ripping little read that I highly recommend. Several likable characters, a great story, an incredibly easy - and enjoyable - read.
A ripping little read that I highly recommend. Several likable characters, a great story, an incredibly easy - and enjoyable - read.
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It's not that at all. But OK.
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These are my books for the beach.
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Finished this on NYE
Good little suburban thriller. Exciting, a page turner. I will say though its drawback is there are not many likable characters at all.
Good little suburban thriller. Exciting, a page turner. I will say though its drawback is there are not many likable characters at all.
Hadn't bought any books for some time since I grabbed SPQR by Mary Beard so on a whim picked up the first book in the Silo series (loved the TV series) and been a big fan of the Metro game series, Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. Will try and fit these in whilst slowly working my way through 'Breaker Morant' by Peter FitzSimons which I am finding an interesting read.
