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Alan Moore - A Small Killing (Illustrated by Oscar Zarate) is EXCELLENT. One of my favorite of Moore's works for sure.

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Been reading Arthur Koestler's Invisible Writing, I'm a huge fan of Koestler hence my username, the book focuses of the period covered by his two previous books, Dialogue with Death and The Scum of the Earth, both of which were written during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, so identities have been redacted in the early novels. The invisible writing covers the same period without any need to conceal facts, for instance when Dialogue with Death was written Koestler was working as an agent for comintern, so certain things were omitted or only alluded to, anyway if you're into the history of the European left you'll love this book.

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Also started reading this on my recent trip to Tasmania, was enjoying it immensely, I love Murakami, stupidly I left it on the damn plane on the way home.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Killers of the Flower Moon. Just started it.

Here’s a description from Amazon.

“In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed—many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.“
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Anyone read this? I found out a couple months after I posted this that they're making it into a movie. Dicaprio starring. Scorsese directing. Highly recommend.
 
I've recently been participating in Ekpe Udoh's Twitter book club. Rather fun. We just finished a Lisa Scottoline book, and the author actually joined our discussions. Ekpe is taking sign-ups for the next book if you are interested #ekpesbookclub

The next book is "Say Nothing" by Brad Parks. I won't be participating in this one since my library doesn't have it, and I'm not planning to buy it.

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mate of mine is clearing out his spare room to turn into a nursery for his first child which is due in a couple of months, so i've picked up a couple of free books, this was the first one i chewed through took me a couple of days.

written by a an ex-newscorp journo it documents how a bunch of Aussie Vietnam vets were screwed by their government and the Army. Not a bad read, real easy to read, its nothing special stylistically, interestingly Walker is brave enough to give the myth of ANZAC a poke and has a small shot at the pollies and establishment for building it up as this sacred cow while ignoring the reality that Australian's have only once ever fought to defend our own country and in every other conflict we have fought as the pawns of one empire or another. Anyway my next book will be this;

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Masters is a journo i have a lot of respect for this could be an interesting book.
 
I finished a reading challenge at the end of August which took 52 books to complete, and with additional books read, I have finished 74 books this year so far. And I haven't been able to pick up a book since completing that challenge. If it wasn't for listening to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on audiobook, I wouldn't have anything to show for last month.

I've discovered the joys of binge-watching on Netflix this past month. I'm sure the two things aren't related.
 
JazzGal said:
I finished a reading challenge at the end of August which took 52 books to complete, and with additional books read, I have finished 74 books this year so far. And I haven't been able to pick up a book since completing that challenge. If it wasn't for listening to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on audiobook, I wouldn't have anything to show for last month.

I've discovered the joys of binge-watching on Netflix this past month. I'm sure the two things aren't related.
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Hyper-intellectualism as a coping mechanism?
 
Rubashov said:
Hyper-intellectualism as a coping mechanism?
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JazzGal said:
I finished a reading challenge at the end of August which took 52 books to complete, and with additional books read, I have finished 74 books this year so far. And I haven't been able to pick up a book since completing that challenge. If it wasn't for listening to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on audiobook, I wouldn't have anything to show for last month.
I've discovered the joys of binge-watching on Netflix this past month. I'm sure the two things aren't related.
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Just happened to see this thread. Guess I never really looked at much here except for basketball news, though in the last year I started to notice lately some political posts by The Babe and others. Wow, Jazzgal, you really are a reader. Even in the days when I poured through classic novels, I never read anywhere near that much. The Internet has been a huge factor in my reading decline.
 
Just finished the first book in the Terra Ignota series. The language is a bit difficult, and it takes some doing to put yourself in that world, but once you do, wow. I was actually planning to take a break and go though some non-fiction science (Well... evolutionary anthropology. Kind of fuzzy stuff, but I love it) when I was done with it, but the last chapter was so gripping I had to pull up the next one and start on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Ignota

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