What are you reading now?

[LMcD]

I'm currently reading 'Housman Country' by Peter Parker, which examines the continuing hold that 'A Shropshire Lad' seems to have on so many of us. (It's never been out of print in 122 years). The book helpfully includes all 63 poems to which one can refer as and when required.

[Beef Oven!]

I'm reading 'Brexit: Why Britain Voted To Leave The European Union" by Whiteley, Clarke and Goodwin.

The most balanced, empirical and even-handed academic account out there, according to all the various reviews. And I agree.

[verismissimo]

Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen.

I missed it at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, which is too uncomfortable for my ageing frame.

[Pianorak]

Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story (Kindle Edition) - by Rachel Clarke

'From the very heart of the NHS comes this brilliant insight into the continuing crisis in the health service. Rachel Clarke writes as the accomplished journalist she once was and as the leading junior doctor she now is - writing with humanity and compassion that at times reduced me to tears.' --Jon Snow Channel 4 News

[teamsaint]

Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story (Kindle Edition) - by Rachel Clarke

'From the very heart of the NHS comes this brilliant insight into the continuing crisis in the health service. Rachel Clarke writes as the accomplished journalist she once was and as the leading junior doctor she now is - writing with humanity and compassion that at times reduced me to tears.' --Jon Snow Channel 4 News

What I DIDN'T read last year was " This is going to hurt" by Adam Kay

I heard him talk at a very significant trade event last year, and it was one of the most unpleasant talks I have ever heard, pointlessly intrusive and unnecessarily explicit. I wandered out.

A pity that the book shops can't find something better to pile high on their tables, when there is so much great stuff published.

[Joseph K]

A few days ago I finished David Harvey's Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason, which I found fairly hard-going through quite a lot of it, very abstract and theoretical, though he does point out how the ideas might be applied to non-revolutionary left-wing policy, i.e. (if I remember correctly) in America how it wouldn't make sense to raise the minimum wage without also taking measures to ensure companies don't then hike prices... As with all of his books I've read, it was a lot to take in on one reading.

Now I've started reading Will Self's Umbrella.

[greenilex]

Farinelli may be a bit high for me.

[vinteuil]

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Jeffrey L Sammons : "Kuno Francke's Edition of The German Classics (1913-1915)"

An extraordinary insight into the world of German studies in the US immediately prior to the Great War, and the attempt to promote German Culture, a prodigious academic / publishing venture of 20 volumes of the Great German Writers - doomed to failure as it coincided with the submarine sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania in May 1915.

The degree of antisemitism rife among the 19th century German writers and 20th century American academics truly chilling.

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[Stanfordian]

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Jeffrey L Sammons : "Kuno Francke's Edition of The German Classics (1913-1915)"

An extraordinary insight into the world of German studies in the US immediately prior to the Great War, and the attempt to promote German Culture, a prodigious academic / publishing venture of 20 volumes of the Great German Writers - doomed to failure as it coincided with the submarine sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania in May 1915.

The degree of antisemitism rife among the 19th century German writers and 20th century American academics truly chilling.

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Nothing's changed then!

[Bryn]

Nothing's changed then!

Indeed, and let's not forget that forced sterilization of those with learning difficulties, and other similar abominations, were introduced to the U.S.A. before any such measures were instituted in Germany. As was medical experimentation of prisoners, especially those of Afro-Amenrican ethnicity.

[Conchis]

In the last 24 hours, I've read Brian Moore's Lies Of Silence. Compulsive storytelling.

[Bergonzi]

I'm actually reading a book by A K Green and recording it for a certain platform (A.com) She is an American writer and the book (Initials Only) was penned in 1911. Forty two chapters of which I've done 16 so far. (It's an early American detective story). Have a deadline of late October or early November so back to reading and editing ... No time for music or forums!

[Stanfordian]

'Anton von Webern' - Malcolm Hayes

[french frank]

Looking forward to the publication of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough.

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them."

John Le Carré

[antongould]

Looking forward to the publication of Moneyland by Oliver Bullough.

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them."

John Le Carré

Few people, of course, fit the job title of International Crook better than David Cornwall’s own father ....