The Book Thread 2023

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First fifty here.

51. Pearl by Siân Hughes
52. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
53. A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
54. All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
55. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
56. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
57. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
58. The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
59. Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
60. The Fall of Boris Johnson by Sebastian Payne
61. North Woods by Daniel Mason
62. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
63. The Dust that Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernières
64. So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
65. The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernières
66. A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières
67. The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
68. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
69. Life Class by Pat Barker
70. Toby's Room by Pat Barker
71. Noonday by Pat Barker
72. We The Animals by Justin Torres
73. Something Like Happy by John Burnside
74. The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa
75. Sins of Silence by Sadie Gordon Richmond
76. The Trackers by Charles Frazier
77. Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
78. The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova
79. The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
80. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Twenty-four hours in the International Space Station. I loved this: beautifully written and thought provoking.

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First fifty here.

51. Pearl by Siân Hughes
52. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
53. A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
54. All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
55. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
56. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
57. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
58. The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
59. Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
60. The Fall of Boris Johnson by Sebastian Payne
61. North Woods by Daniel Mason
62. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
63. The Dust that Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernières
64. So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
65. The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernières
66. A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières
67. The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
68. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
69. Life Class by Pat Barker
70. Toby's Room by Pat Barker
71. Noonday by Pat Barker
72. We The Animals by Justin Torres
73. Something Like Happy by John Burnside
74. The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa
75. Sins of Silence by Sadie Gordon Richmond
76. The Trackers by Charles Frazier
77. Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
78. The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova
79. The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
80. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
81. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Quite a gripping thriller featuring a guerrilla gardening collective, an unethical billionaire and a would-be journalist.

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First fifty here.

51. Pearl by Siân Hughes
52. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
53. A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
54. All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
55. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
56. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
57. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
58. The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
59. Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
60. The Fall of Boris Johnson by Sebastian Payne
61. North Woods by Daniel Mason
62. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
63. The Dust that Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernières
64. So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
65. The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernières
66. A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières
67. The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
68. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
69. Life Class by Pat Barker
70. Toby's Room by Pat Barker
71. Noonday by Pat Barker
72. We The Animals by Justin Torres
73. Something Like Happy by John Burnside
74. The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa
75. Sins of Silence by Sadie Gordon Richmond
76. The Trackers by Charles Frazier
77. Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
78. The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova
79. The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
80. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
81. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
82. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Bear Grylls meets postcolonialism in this tale of a servant girl fleeing captivity and the plague in 17th century America. I enjoyed it, although some of the depicted cruelty was hard to read.

[romansh]

Well, I have read more than one in 2023, but just finished The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray. A sobering book even if only a fraction is accurate.

[SpeedOfSound]

You guys read all the good stuff.
I'm currently doing Gazzaniga ,Ivry , Mangun- Cognitive Neuroscience The Biology of the Mind(2019). I'm back in the philosophy of mind stream on my youtube channel.
Damned Dualists and worse, everywhere. I see them in my sleep!