DID WE ALL FORGET TO CARRY ON READING BOOKS?

I can well believe that. Would you recommend his books?

Depends how much you like Jews.

Enjoying this. Charts the journey from relegation from the Premier League in 1999 to promotion in 2022.

Lots of bits I'd forgotten about (or erased from the memory banks) and a decent read if you were in and around it during those 23 years.

I would probably be too traumatized to read it.

Chicago: Trying the Peter Crouch book.

Im aware that some of you are involved in marketing and proper copywriting shit n all that.
Tom is a chum and basically a nerd who can communicate really well and likes space stuff. So doing a collab on a sci fi project with Alastair Reynolds is absolutely fucking elite. www.zurich.co.uk/meet-tomorrow

Yeah but where's the book?

It looks just like a website with invented stuff thrown on it. Unless that is the premise for the book. I have 30 seconds between clients so would be easier to ask you rather than assume it's an optimistic website with future ideas?

Chicago: Currently enjoying True Believer (Terminal List part 2)

The big blue button right in front of your face that say "Meet Tomorrow Short Story" is unsurprisingly........

Currently rereading 1984. If it was relevant when it was first published, it's doubly so today.

Found myself muttering 'sex crime' as I read that. I then had to explain to Mrs Rave exactly why.

I re-read Brave New World recently and the same is true for that. Very different visions, but both eerily relevant now.

Did something this morning that I’ve only ever done a handful of times… decided to give up on a book. This was The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, a dystopian sci-fi thriller, allegedly, only I didn’t find it very thrilling. One dimensional characters, lousy dialogue and a clumsy plot that may work for sci-fi lovers but didn’t do anything for me, given that I’m more interested in character development. Anyway, I’ve given up.

Early in my teaching career, I mentioned I was struggling to get through Neuromancer. It was one of those books I felt I was “supposed” to read. It was quite refreshing to hear one of our teaching gurus with decades of experience ask “why would you bother with a book you’re not enjoying?”
In amongst all the “reading is good” and you’re here to learn we preach to the youth, I think we overlook the fact that you’re allowed not to like stuff.
I just expect a reasonably articulate reason why beyond [actual quote] “Mister, I don’t be reading.”

One of my most read books ever. A work of absolute genius imo.

I think I read it too late (late 2010s). Growing up with a diet of Blade Runner, 2000ad, etc (not to mention the Matrix), it was cool to see where so many ideas came from but it just didn’t really click with me.

Currently reading Project Hail Mary as the film comes out this Friday over here. No chance in finishing it in time for the release but so far pretty interesting. Unfortunately time is not my friend. If I wasn't so busy I could take the time to really hunker down with a glass of bourbon and relax.

Having been buying a shed load of books of late but in typical fashion I haven't the time to enjoy them. I might be mental.

Chicago: Yearning for quieter times.