So peeps. What are you reading? I just finished Beevors history of the Russian Revolution. It was a serious book and hard reading for me especially with those Russian names. Can be confusing but an interesting and bloody history. Terrible how it ended up and it was just horrific on both sides. All in all a good description of what happened during the civil war after the 1917 revolution…
For ficiton I’m reading Orwell’s 1984. It’s still topical although I think the new right is probably far more dangerous but finding some of it missed the mark on a re read. Picked up Animal Farm for like $4 so that is next.
Looking for a non ficiton book to start reading and it’s payday tomorrow so any recommendations…probably prefer something historical. Meanwhile after Orwell I think it’s back to Dystoyevsky … need to finish the brothers and finding it interesting looking at that Russian psyche.
I just got done with Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and “Jailbird” by Vonnegut. Just started a couple of Palahniuk’s books, “Doomed” and “Damned” to kind of lighten up things. I also want to read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn this month. I’ve been able to read a lot better since going up on my clozapine a few weeks ago, it’s like my concentration has improved. It’s like my attention span has increased exponentially.
I started this book but never finished it. The authors name is Robert Fisk. He spent some 30 years in the Middle East as a real journalist. I literally only reached seventy pages into the book. It almost reads like a novel from what little I read. I’ve watched a few of his lectures though. It’s a long book. It starts around the British in Afganistán then the Russians where he covered in person. That’s as far as I got. He interviewed bin laden too a couple times in Afganistán in a tent he was taken to. Pretty cool.
I picked up Beevors The Battle of the Bulge on payday for my non fiction book. I bit of military history which I don’t mind. Still looking around for non fiction titles!
