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* Caligula, by Albert Camus
* Ulysses, by James Joyce
I just want to say that it’s fun and even more fun as an audiobook with a good voice actor.
* On Palestine, by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Frank Barat (Editor)
Discussions focused mainly on framing, activist tactics, including parallels to ending South African apartheid, and reality inside Palestine, as Israel is getting closer to full colonization of the Greater Israel.
There’s also a compilation of articles about the 2014 iteration of Israel “mowing the lawn”; those are a bit repetitive but a reminder that history rhymes.
I’ll be picking up The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein next; it’s currently one of the free e-books at Verso and has been on my list for a while, the surveillance/military tech sector is well within my area of interest.
* The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
I came across an edition that compares all 3-4 versions of the text, so that’s nice, as an obsessive completionist.
* Sága o Lundirovi, by Jan Kozák
Tolkienesque fantasy. I don’t just mean that there are elves. Yes, there are elves. But more importantly, the author is very open about taking Tolkien’s methods for worldbuilding in interviews … and when I got my hands on the book, I thought the maps’ visual style was outright plagiarized from Tolkien. Half the book are appendices in encyclopaedic format.
The similarities are quite superficial upon closer inspection though. The author is an academic in religious studies, specializing in Northern European mythology, and this is his side project, writing faux history, in this case a saga, and experimenting with lore—it’s a playground for various eccentric religious and linguistic concepts.
Finished:
**The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson**
A classic for a reason. I enjoyed it a lot more than Treasure Island.
**A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines**
A proper piece of northern working class literature. A gem of a book – still need to watch the film.
**I Am Legend, by Robert Matheson**
Somehow never seen the Will Smith adaption. Really enjoyed and loved the ending.
Started:
**Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!, by Kurt Vonnegut**
Finished:
Clash of Kings (George RR Martin). Great read that certainly delves into the darker aspects of humanity, especially with the chapters at Harrenhal.
Unruly (David Mitchell). Audiobook. Great listen that looks at the history of the Royal Family from William the Conquerer to Elizabeth 1. Mitchell’s witty and somewhat wry sense of humour definitely adds to the overall sense that he is never speaking down to you.
Lone Survivor (Marcus Luttrell). It was okay. The chapters about the fighting and his evasion from capture and Gulab’s willingness to protect him are definitely highlights of the book.
Started:
Nazi Hunters (Damian Lewis). Just over halfway through the book. Interesting read about a group of SAS troopers who hunted down the Nazis after WW2 who were responsible for a massacre of civilians and SAS troopers in the Vosges region.
I started listening to the audio version of The Four Winds by Kristin Hanna a couple days. I’m about halfway through it and like it so far. I actually have a physical copy of the book, but decided to listen to the audio version while getting tasks done around the house.