Safe As Book

[Kris]

The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Richard and Judy think it's great and so do I!

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"fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive."

[gillworm]

Jarhead by Anthony Swofford. recommended by our own che. I was tempted by the dvd in the january sales and he told me that the book was better.

it's a good read, at times blackly funny, also at times touching and illuminating. don't let your son be a marine, people!
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(and gillworm! she's so funny!)

[CiaranMac]

Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Bleak as January
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[gillworm]

ok, onto the next, thanks to our friend Fopp, selling brand new paperbacks for half the cover price...

Interesting Times by Eric Hosbawm.

I've heard his name many times over the years and knew he's a communist, but I'm not sure I've read much that he's written. The cover blurb hooked me: 'Hitler came to power when Eric Hosbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner at home with Mahalia Jackson in Chicago. He saw the body of Stalin, started the modern history of banditry and is (presumably) the only Maxist asked to collaborate with the inventor of the Mars bar...'

how could I resist? very readable style, looks like being an engrossing read altogether.
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(and gillworm! she's so funny!)

[gillworm]

[Bev]

[Bev]

On a non-fiction tip, can I recommend "The End of Oil" by Paul Roberts...

The title is slightly misleading, as it is really about the end of
cheap oil (+gas, coal etc.). It is really fascinating, and puts a lot you see in the news (Middle East, growth of China, global warming) in context. Not too heavy going either, despite the above.
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[gillworm]

I'm revisiting an old favourite, The Boat (Das Boot), written by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, about life on a German U-Boat in the last World War. A bloody good read and totally gripping in its descriptions of the U-boat's attacks on British convoys. The account of the U-boat being bombarded by depth charges from a British destroyer had my stomach in knots!

the author died earlier this year, which is what put it mind that the book should be taken down from the shelf and re-read:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2308390.ece
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[John Mc]

Surviving Justice - true life stories of people who've been wrongfully imprisoned. Harrowing stuff.

Macca isn't a fan of Revolution in the Head:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/42799-interview-sir-paul-mccartney