Stuff about Books I've Read

A short story from 1909.

This was the Rieu translation, which apparently initiated the Penguin Classics series. It is in prose rather than attempting to translate into poetry. It was very clear and easy to read.

Jarvis Cocker having a clear out of his loft space talking through some of the things he finds. I didn’t know much about him really, but fancied something quite light to read and it was on offer. I’m glad I picked it, I found his perspective on life and music interesting as a fellow awkward nerd that seems to be in a slower gear than the rest of the world a lot of the time.

The first section details the author’s time in Auschwitz, which of course was hard going and fascinating.

Very short and very silly. I have a real soft spot for Rincewind, and the early Discworld books.

I found the different perspectives on power interesting.

A book detailing how our food has been systematically replaced by food-like products.

This is an easy read that draws a narrative through the whole of human history. Unfortunately, it’s full of opinion written as fact, bending things out of shape to fit in with an idea and I think quite a lot of inaccuracies.

This book feels like a long essay, it’s about how and why an uncompetitive introvert finds meaning in running every day. He ran almost every day for around 25 years at the time of writing, having run a marathon every year.

This is the October pick for the Exeter Dystopian novels book club.

I took this out from Okehampton library on Saturday. They had a feature shelf about sea travel.