What are you reading in 2025?

[garyclark]

Thanks!

I also listened at 1.5x speed for what it's worth.

[govmentchedda]

Thanks!

I also listened at 1.5x speed for what it's worth.

That's my regular speed. Too much stuff I want to listen to each week to go any slower.

[Rush2112]

[govmentchedda]

Rob Delaney's memoir about his toddler son dying of a brain tumor, titled A Heart That Works. Really good.

[garyclark]

I started reading this last year, wasn't that into it, and put it down after a chapter or two. Picked it up again recently, and enjoyed it. Not sure what changed. If you are a producer of content or a creator or artist, I think you might find it to be an affirmative reminder of your value.

[rass]

What if you just love provocative book covers?

[garyclark]

What if you just love provocative book covers?

It is titular.

[rass]

Aw yeah. Reading is FUNdamental

[sancarlos]

What if you just love provocative book covers?

It is titular.

Golf clap.

[garyclark]

This was filled with a lot of great history and detailed personal narratives if you are interested in organized crime, Jewish-American history, New York City history, and the first quarter of the 20th century.

[The Sybian]

I’m a full fledged member of the GC book club. This sounds great, looking for it now. Listed to Three Assassins, which was a poetically written Tarantino plot line. Such a unique interesting story. Currently finishing The Club (was that a GC rec?), and a great look into the business side of the EPL. Lots of familiar names in the former owners and GMs from when I started watching, and very interesting learning about them, how they got there and their strategies.

[garyclark]

I’m a full fledged member of the GC book club. This sounds great, looking for it now. Listed to Three Assassins, which was a poetically written Tarantino plot line. Such a unique interesting story. Currently finishing The Club (was that a GC rec?), and a great look into the business side of the EPL. Lots of familiar names in the former owners and GMs from when I started watching, and very interesting learning about them, how they got there and their strategies.

Nice!

Yes. I recommended The Club. So fun for those of who have been following the sport for some time.

[Rush2112]

I recommended The Club.

GC, I recommend checking out the Turf Wars series. They get a little tedious unless you want a deep dive into clubs in a particular region. Still, the Lancashire and London books go into the forming of the Football League, it looks like the West Midlands goes into the league earlier in UK football history (I haven't been able to grab it yet.) You can skip around and follow a particular club if you so desire. The Rough Guide to English Football is great for getting short histories of clubs, it's a little dated (early 2000s, IIRC,) but a great little coffee table book.

[Giff]

This was a great read:

[garyclark]

I recommended The Club.

GC, I recommend checking out the Turf Wars series. They get a little tedious unless you want a deep dive into clubs in a particular region. Still, the Lancashire and London books go into the forming of the Football League, it looks like the West Midlands goes into the league earlier in UK football history (I haven't been able to grab it yet.) You can skip around and follow a particular club if you so desire. The Rough Guide to English Football is great for getting short histories of clubs, it's a little dated (early 2000s, IIRC,) but a great little coffee table book.

Thanks for these! Do any of them cover Newcastle?

[Rush2112]

Yorkshire Turf Wars: A Football History I'd suspect. Haven't read that one yet. Even though Newcastle isn't Yorkshire proper, it's close enough? Unless he's writing a Northumerland one..

[garyclark]

Yorkshire Turf Wars: A Football History I'd suspect. Haven't read that one yet. Even though Newcastle isn't Yorkshire proper, it's close enough? Unless he's writing a Northumerland one..

That's what I thought as well. But I didn't see that on a quick glance.

Maybe Newcastle just such a big club, they require their own book (with footnotes about how crap Sunderland is).

[bfj]

I have no memory of putting this into my Libby queue, but I’m enjoying it.

[garyclark]

I have no memory of putting this into my Libby queue, but I’m enjoying it.

Let me know how you like it when done. I like Fry, but have found him dense when i tried to dig into other works of his.

[Rush2112]

I like that series (and I am a huge Frye/QI guy)

I also read/watched his Frye In America series awhile back and amazing how much Frye hated Trump even when he wasn't shite TV star.

[bfj]

I have no memory of putting this into my Libby queue, but I’m enjoying it.

Let me know how you like it when done. I like Fry, but have found him dense when i tried to dig into other works of his.

Will do. I am a book listener, not a reader. Also at 1.5x.
Greek mythology treated almost as a soap opera with all of the "facts", but the stories are well told as Fry plays different characters.
I think it makes what could be way more dense material somewhat entertaining.

[sancarlos]

By the author of The Thursday Murder Club series. Reads very similarly, albeit with different characters - very light, quick page-turner.

[garyclark]

By the author of The Thursday Murder Club series. Reads very similarly, albeit with different characters - very light, quick page-turner.

He has a unique writing style. I'm not sure what I think of it. I really liked it when some people were talking. And I did not when others were.

[garyclark]

A series of somewhat interrelated short stories of expats in different cities around the world. Well-written prose. Sometimes borders on the metaphysical. Not my typical fare. But I really enjoyed the lyrical descriptions of the various locations from rural Brazilian villages to the alleys of Prague.

Picked it up because it was written by the partner of a good friend of mine.

[garyclark]

Just finished this. I think it's far from perfect but well worth the read. Definitely changing the way I think about food, specifically sugar. Discussion in the Get Fit thread.

[DaveInSeattle]

Finished this last night:

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Interesting, well written story about a "fixer/PR flack" in Hollywood, but it gets pretty dark.

[Giff]

I really like him. He's a good follow on social media too.

[A_B]

Just finished this. I think it's far from perfect but well worth the read. Definitely changing the way I think about food, specifically sugar. Discussion in the Get Fit thread.

Mid life crisis, gc?

[garyclark]

Just finished this. I think it's far from perfect but well worth the read. Definitely changing the way I think about food, specifically sugar. Discussion in the Get Fit thread.

Mid life crisis, gc?

Ha. No crisis.

Just trying to make 50 a literally midlife thing.

Although now that I'm thinking about this, the title of this book should be Outhealth. Because it's about not just living longer, it's about living longer better.

[garyclark]

Finished this last night:



Interesting, well written story about a "fixer/PR flack" in Hollywood, but it gets pretty dark.

What's the first one?

[DaveInSeattle]

Finished this last night:



Interesting, well written story about a "fixer/PR flack" in Hollywood, but it gets pretty dark.

What's the first one?

A posting snafu! My bad!

[DaveInSeattle]

I really like him. He's a good follow on social media too.

That's how I heard about the book...comedian Ian Karmel mentioned him on bluesky, and the author responded.

[Giff]

I really like him. He's a good follow on social media too.

That's how I heard about the book...comedian Ian Karmel mentioned him on bluesky, and the author responded.

She Rides Shotgun is awesome too.

[P.D.X.]

Have we talked about Peter Heller before? Really solid wilderness thrillers. Currently on The Guide, which is the follow-up to The River. Highly recommended and they're also pretty straight-forward linear narratives so good for listening.

[garyclark]

Have we talked about Peter Heller before? Really solid wilderness thrillers. Currently on The Guide, which is the follow-up to The River. Highly recommended and they're also pretty straight-forward linear narratives so good for listening.

Oooh. I hadn't heard of him.

Where would you recommend I start if I wanted to read him?

[P.D.X.]

I've only read The River and currently in the middle of The Guide...which are sequential. Gonna jump into Dog Stars next as I understand the screen writer for The Revenant is adapting it for film.

[garyclark]

I've only read The River and currently in the middle of The Guide...which are sequential. Gonna jump into Dog Stars next as I understand the screen writer for The Revenant is adapting it for film.

Just picked up The River.

Dog Stars sounds intense, but lovely. Want to build up to it.

[P.D.X.]

Nice, just finished The Guide. Coincidentally my travels took me to Crested Butte last summer (area where the book takes place) and was picturing a lodge that I passed a couple times as the novel's setting, and I'm 99% sure that was the exact one the author used from the geographic clues. Didn't really figure that out until near the end. (Taylor Canyon for those who've been to the area)

[Shirley]

I finished listening to "None of This is True" a few days ago. That was a pretty good book and maybe the best audiobook I've listened to. Great use of different voice actors and a little bit of sound production to tell the story (which involves a podcast).

[DaveInSeattle]

Just finished this:



Pretty middling spy/thriller novel. Really good set-up..starts out with a guy living under an assumed identity...then goes back 5 years, telling how he was a finance guy in New York, where he meets a Russian woman, dates her, and then finds out that her father is a Roman Abramovich-style Oligarch Billionaire. Enjoyed it, but it got pretty ridiculous towards the end.