Annoyingly I’ve now read all of Connolly’s books. But there’s a new Bosch thriller due out next week.
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I’m only on book 5 of The Bosch’s (Trunk Music) so got loads to get through. Got the first 10 ready.
Because I’ve mashed my hand I can’t play Zelda so as long as I put my phone in another room I dont get too distracted.
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I envy you having all those great books still to read
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Currently on a good book streak.
Whalebone Theatre
River east river west
Bought Pritch’s cookbooks as Missus is vegan and I eat that way regular. They look really good actually.
I bought them too! They are still looking ‘really good’ since they haven’t moved from the shelf since I got them 
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I was just going to do all the Bosch ones but got to one which was a sequel to something else so I’ve been doing all his books in the published order now instead.
Finished this just now
I couldn’t breathe for the last 100 pages.
The man can write a fucking thriller.
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I read that book a couple of weeks ago. SO good!
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Last minute stocking-filler for a loved one idea:
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Almost unreadable, but stuck with it to the bitter end for some reason.
Why use 1 word when 20 unpronounceable ones will do?
3/10. Stick to to the telly.
Pretty bloody good this. Tough to follow the intricacies and motivations of people towards the end (might just be me though). Horrible stuff in places.
I just looked up the author because I didn’t know anything about him. Blimey.
There’s a pretty good film too.
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Got this on order to turn up today (weans having a halloween party, i’m banished to the spare room) - been recommended and seems fitting for the impending darkness of winter, a fascination with hauntology and an addiction to Boards of Canada
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Mark Fisher (RIP) is required reading!
Been reading for the last hour or so, got to say while I agree with his points about lost futures, it might not be for me, I can already feel myself being drawn to nihilism
I enjoy a bit of Ellroy, the Underworld trilogy is great.
Best to break him up with other stuff as he can be pretty full on to binge read…
Coming back to this because I finally finished LA Confidential last night. Took me about a month I think.
I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything that comes close to being as intricate.
Apparently there’s 14 different main plot lines in all, all of which are interconnected(!).
You have to try and follow all that when it’s written in a nearly indecipherable 50’s jazzcat language. I can’t begin to comprehend how he wrote it.
So done The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere and now this.
One more to go for the LA quartet books but my brain needs a break from it for a bit!
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Ellroy definitely needs break periods. Way too intense to stay in for too long.
But then you do really need to follow LA quartet with the Underworld USA trilogy.
Pretty close but they edge it for me just by having Big Pete Bondurant as a major character…
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For sure. I’ve read too many bad things happening to people’s eyes recently.
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I’ve tried Ellroy and it’s not for me. Thr movie was pretty dense too if I remember.
I read a lot and I used to punish myself to finish some books but nowadays if the book can’t grab me after a couple chapters I let it go.
I read The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng which was excellent so hit up The house of doors which was also good. The garden of mists though stalled for me. I don’t want to not finish it but it’s currently back on the shelf until further notice.
Currently re-reading Dracula and I forgot how there are a few pages of waffle interspersed throughout. It could probably lose 50 and be better.