Finished reading: Harlan Coben - Win by Harlan Coben 📚
His books are so much smarter and snarkier than his TV series.
Finished reading: We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets 📚
Douglas Coupland lite, hyped because of the social media moral panic.
Finished reading: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra 📚
I read it fast, which is a good sign. One of those ‘does what it says on the can really well’ books.
Roses are read Violets are blue The ASCII for ‘space’ Is Code 32
Snowy, innit.
Finished reading: Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks 📚
Really interesting stuff about early psychiatric/neurology research, but not enough plot and too much about building cable cars.
How the fuck does anyone ever break through Substack if they don’t bring followers with them?
Finished reading: Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 📚
The chapters on his death and the subsequent manoeuvring, with some of the players and their relatives hanging on into the Gorbachev era are actually the best bits. Makes me want to rewatch Ianucci’s Death of Stalin.
Currently reading: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 📚
Wish me luck. It’s a long climb.
Currently reading: Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 📚
There’s a lot of juicy gossip in here, but you have to wade through a lot of tedium too.