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32/52 - They never once live in a castle! False advertising!!! Didn’t wanna stick this one down once I started but had to for sleeping purposes. The only part of the book that annoys me is that no one else seems to suspect the obvious murderer right under their noses
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
32/52 - They never once live in a castle! False advertising!!! Didn’t wanna stick this one down once I started but had to for sleeping purposes. The only part of the book that annoys me is that no one else seems to suspect the obvious murderer right under their noses
31/52 - pirates are fucking cool, man
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
31/52 - pirates are fucking cool, man
30/52 - one of my favourite books, the only reread this year and it only happened because the books I’m currently reading wouldn’t fit into my lil’ hoody pouch. It keeps growing in relevance as we continue this managed decline (in the west) and hypernormalisation becomes more difficult to break
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
30/52 - one of my favourite books, the only reread this year and it only happened because the books I’m currently reading wouldn’t fit into my lil’ hoody pouch. It keeps growing in relevance as we continue this managed decline (in the west) and hypernormalisation becomes more difficult to break
29/52 - I thought the theme I had picked with my last 2 books would be drugs. Turns out it was bleak men loving bleak lives (in very different ways). Excellent portrait of a life even if sometimes unintentionally sexist (his wife is bad and mean to him just because she can be, why? Just cos)
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
29/52 - I thought the theme I had picked with my last 2 books would be drugs. Turns out it was bleak men loving bleak lives (in very different ways). Excellent portrait of a life even if sometimes unintentionally sexist (his wife is bad and mean to him just because she can be, why? Just cos)
28/52 - Probably the bleakest thing I’ve read this year, hella informative about Junk and its effects whilst also being a compelling journey through one man’s addiction, the Oliver Harris intro and his appendixes also add a lot to this book (first one I’ve read in one day this year)
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
28/52 - Probably the bleakest thing I’ve read this year, hella informative about Junk and its effects whilst also being a compelling journey through one man’s addiction, the Oliver Harris intro and his appendixes also add a lot to this book (first one I’ve read in one day this year)
27/52 - a delightful romp hitchhiking through the Galaxy. Just a silly, good time
October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
27/52 - a delightful romp hitchhiking through the Galaxy. Just a silly, good time
26/52 - Milton thinks he’s so smart because he came up with words like “pandemonium” but I already knew that word, so who’s the real smart guy? And now I’ve finished reading your dumb book which took you ages to write and me less than a month to read. 2-0 Milton, you dork
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
26/52 - Milton thinks he’s so smart because he came up with words like “pandemonium” but I already knew that word, so who’s the real smart guy? And now I’ve finished reading your dumb book which took you ages to write and me less than a month to read. 2-0 Milton, you dork
25/52 - the last of the 4 books I bought whilst in the states and probably my favourite of the 4. There’s just something about the relaxed style that Murakami writes in that I just fuck with.
September 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
25/52 - the last of the 4 books I bought whilst in the states and probably my favourite of the 4. There’s just something about the relaxed style that Murakami writes in that I just fuck with.
24/52 - Akira should really know better than to do that given he’d done it once before, real party foul (probably my favourite of the volumes so far, just brilliant throughout and those final 20-ish pages are just perfect)
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
24/52 - Akira should really know better than to do that given he’d done it once before, real party foul (probably my favourite of the volumes so far, just brilliant throughout and those final 20-ish pages are just perfect)
23/52 - This book is pretty good. And so on.
I have now finished this book. So it goes.
I have now finished this book. So it goes.
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
23/52 - This book is pretty good. And so on.
I have now finished this book. So it goes.
I have now finished this book. So it goes.
22/52 - fuck you, me last year, you couldn’t dream of being this many books down at this point in the year! Fascinating history, kinda made me wish that I just found a book about the history of The Black Panthers rather than one about the Shakurs but would probably be good for big 2Pac fans
August 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
22/52 - fuck you, me last year, you couldn’t dream of being this many books down at this point in the year! Fascinating history, kinda made me wish that I just found a book about the history of The Black Panthers rather than one about the Shakurs but would probably be good for big 2Pac fans
21/52- The only real “punishment” is that there wasn’t more of this to enjoy 😊 (jk, it’s a great book but it’s really derailed the hopes of me hitting 52 this year, my fault really, but I am now equal to the number I read last year, so… take that, me)
August 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
21/52- The only real “punishment” is that there wasn’t more of this to enjoy 😊 (jk, it’s a great book but it’s really derailed the hopes of me hitting 52 this year, my fault really, but I am now equal to the number I read last year, so… take that, me)
20/52 - Empireland 2: Electric Boogaloo! Not sure if it has the same bite as the OG but I think it makes the important point of trying to stop the balance sheet narrative (which I think we’ve all been guilty of at some point) as it adds nothing. Look forward to wherever Sathnam comes out with next
June 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
20/52 - Empireland 2: Electric Boogaloo! Not sure if it has the same bite as the OG but I think it makes the important point of trying to stop the balance sheet narrative (which I think we’ve all been guilty of at some point) as it adds nothing. Look forward to wherever Sathnam comes out with next
19/52 - Parts of this book I loved and parts of it I hated. Sometimes authors shouldn’t write an afterword to their book because I went from deciding that the whole of it worked despite some of the sum of its parts, then I read her afterword and it undid it a bit for me. Also hate this cover.
June 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
19/52 - Parts of this book I loved and parts of it I hated. Sometimes authors shouldn’t write an afterword to their book because I went from deciding that the whole of it worked despite some of the sum of its parts, then I read her afterword and it undid it a bit for me. Also hate this cover.
18/52 - had 2 people at work when they saw me reading this tell me that “they never mention that they were sold by Africans” which is funny because this book does and also, it isn’t about British involvement in the slave trade. Wonderful bit of journalism, with a view towards reconciliation
May 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
18/52 - had 2 people at work when they saw me reading this tell me that “they never mention that they were sold by Africans” which is funny because this book does and also, it isn’t about British involvement in the slave trade. Wonderful bit of journalism, with a view towards reconciliation
17/52 - A towering work of fiction, not sure there’s anything I can say about this book that hasn’t already been said and I’m a big dumb-dumb who really enjoyed it. (Finished this moments ago, might have more to say when I let it sink in fully, but that’s unlikely)
May 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
17/52 - A towering work of fiction, not sure there’s anything I can say about this book that hasn’t already been said and I’m a big dumb-dumb who really enjoyed it. (Finished this moments ago, might have more to say when I let it sink in fully, but that’s unlikely)
15/52 - This sucked and I hated it. Basically every chapter ended with a “and who’s behind it all? Autocracy Inc.”. A couple of moments gave me real “Pepe Silvia” vibes. Just really smug and centrist. One of the solutions she provides in the book was offered by Corbyn who she hates, obvs.
May 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
15/52 - This sucked and I hated it. Basically every chapter ended with a “and who’s behind it all? Autocracy Inc.”. A couple of moments gave me real “Pepe Silvia” vibes. Just really smug and centrist. One of the solutions she provides in the book was offered by Corbyn who she hates, obvs.
14/52 - bought “Empireworld” and decided that I should read the original before the sequel. An important read for any Brit as it really highlights our refusal to look at our own empirical past and how it still effects us today
May 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
14/52 - bought “Empireworld” and decided that I should read the original before the sequel. An important read for any Brit as it really highlights our refusal to look at our own empirical past and how it still effects us today
13/52 - haven’t updated in a whilst so I’m gonna dump a load today. Very good, really enjoyed all the way through. My first Murakami and will definitely be reading another of his soon
May 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
13/52 - haven’t updated in a whilst so I’m gonna dump a load today. Very good, really enjoyed all the way through. My first Murakami and will definitely be reading another of his soon
12/52 - they got so close, if only they had more explosives then they might have done it, guess that’s just the “Paddy factor” though (finished this days ago but was on holiday in a different country and I don’t owe anybody shit, this is just for me as are all my endeavours)
April 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
12/52 - they got so close, if only they had more explosives then they might have done it, guess that’s just the “Paddy factor” though (finished this days ago but was on holiday in a different country and I don’t owe anybody shit, this is just for me as are all my endeavours)
11/52 - everyone’s favourite book of last year is probably my favourite so far this year! I was hooked from the start and never knew exactly where it was going to take me. Big fan of the ending and hope to take some of that energy into my own life
March 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
11/52 - everyone’s favourite book of last year is probably my favourite so far this year! I was hooked from the start and never knew exactly where it was going to take me. Big fan of the ending and hope to take some of that energy into my own life
10/52 - this book really has thrown off the curve of me just chomping my way through a book, but it was fascinating getting a better understanding of a period of history that I only vaguely remember being taught in primary school - fuck Olly Cromwell. Bastard stopped the English Republic proper
March 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
10/52 - this book really has thrown off the curve of me just chomping my way through a book, but it was fascinating getting a better understanding of a period of history that I only vaguely remember being taught in primary school - fuck Olly Cromwell. Bastard stopped the English Republic proper
9/52 - I imagine the media illiterate would assume that the main character is good and doing good things because she’s the main character and the author endorses her actions, thankfully there’s a dude in this who’s constantly shaking his head and is disappointed by her actions
February 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
9/52 - I imagine the media illiterate would assume that the main character is good and doing good things because she’s the main character and the author endorses her actions, thankfully there’s a dude in this who’s constantly shaking his head and is disappointed by her actions
8/52 - it’s fine, probably the book I’ve enjoyed least so far this year especially after seeing it compared to The Five by Hallie Ruebenhold. Just does way too much moralising about the crimes/criminals and spends too much time going off on cases that are similar to the ones in the chapters
February 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
8/52 - it’s fine, probably the book I’ve enjoyed least so far this year especially after seeing it compared to The Five by Hallie Ruebenhold. Just does way too much moralising about the crimes/criminals and spends too much time going off on cases that are similar to the ones in the chapters