I’ve finished “One False Move” by Robert Goddard. A young man is a prodigy at playing Go and makes a local businessman a lot of money using his skills to trade shares. A computer games company wants to recruit him to improve their products, and attempts to buy him out of his contract with unexpected results involving various shady government departments. A decent story, I usually enjoy stuff by this author though I did find the early parts of the book quite slow going, and had to keep going back to recap.
I’ve just read “Kill a Stranger” by Simon Kernick. A couple come back to the UK to have their child when the girl is kidnapped and her partner is told that he must kill a man and recover a flash driver if he ever wants to see her again. He tries to do this, various things go wrong and the plot untangles. A good story, I was a bit irritated at the start as it jumps about between past and present story lines, but it came good in the end.
h wow, Ocean by Alessandro Baricco sounds like quite the ride! I totally get the ‘elaborate dream’ vibe—some books just feel like stepping into someone else’s subconscious. Glad you enjoyed it, though! And hey, not every book is for everyone—your boyfriend’s loss, I guess! 
What was the most mind-bending part for you
I’ve just finished “Recursion” by Blake Crouch. I really enjoyed it
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I’ve just read “The Year of the Locust” by Terry Hayes. A CIA agent is involved in hunting down a terrorist, is captured by the terrorist but manages to escape, then gets involved in hunting him down again, with a brief interlude where he’s testing stealth technology in a submarine which goes a little wrong.
A good read, I very much enjoyed his previous book “I am Pilgrim” as well. There’s a short section of the book that could easily be a totally different book, and could ruin it (I have read some bad reviews because of it) but it doesn’t dominate it, for me.
Allan Dib - Lean Marketing
Basically it’s a refresher and guide to the modern marketing landscape, especially the practical side of online marketing.
I took notes from beginning to end and I hope to reference these often.
Watership Down. If you haven’t read it yet, please do read. I include this because it explains much of the world we live in, albeit through the eyes of rabbits.
I’ve just read “The Hanged Man” by Simon Kernick. Police are hunting a gang of organised criminals who they believe are responsible for kidnapping, torturing and killing a series of young women, but DI Ray Mason takes it too far. A good story, I get the impression it’s part of a sequence and it might have been better for me to read them in order.
I’ve just read “After the Crash” by Michel Bussi. A plane crashes in 1980 and the only survivor is a baby, but there were two babies on the flight and no-one knows whether it’s the baby from the rich unpleasant family, or the poor hard-working family. After a court awards the child to the latter, the former employ a private detective to find out the truth. The book is told from the time when the child becomes eighteen and flashbacks from the notes of the detective. It’s a decent enough book, I don’t usually like flashback stuff but this was good.
I am in the middle of second “Duna” book thread. First one went better. Just need special mood for it.
I’ve recently finished “The Noise” by James Patterson and JD Barker. Two children from an off-grid community are out in the woods when they hear a loud noise, they’re grabbed and pushed down into a storm cellar, and when they come out, there’s no-one around and the settlement has been flattened. A team of scientists is despatched to find out what happened and whether it’s going to happen anywhere else.
I normally like James Patterson’s stuff, even though some look down on them as being disposable, but this wasn’t for me. I couldn’t tell you now what the noise was, only that it resulted in a load of people forming into a horde and racing towards towns and cities gathering other people and forming into to an uncontrollable mob. There’s a lot goes on, but not my kind of story.
I recently read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. It’s a well-written look at his life and career.
Hello all, been gone for a long time! Last book I read was The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.
Def recommend, especially if you’re an horror fan like me.
the dreamy and personal vibe of Riding the Waves of Baricco’s Ocean: A Dreamlike Journey Worth Taking
I’ve just finished “Mission Critical” by Mark Greaney. Part of the “Gray Man” series, Gentry has to track down a believed-dead former Russian General when the CIA learns of a plot to release a bioweapon at an intelligence heads meeting. A decent enough story, I’ve had a few featuring this assassin and enjoyed them all.
For me, it is HellBound Heart!
Hellbound Heart is more than just a dark romance; it’s a journey into a world where every decision is life-changing, and every relationship is a game of power. The book’s addictive nature ensures that readers will find themselves hooked from the very first chapter, making it impossible to put the book down.
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Just finished Mickey 7 and started to read 1984 from George Orwell
surrounded by idiots -" The Four Types of Human Behavior - by thomas erikson
Interesting read. Got it from Amazon. It’s part of the 7 book series.
I’ve just read “Oblivion” by Arnaldur Indridason. A man’s body is found close to an American air base in Iceland, and the local police try to discover whether he was killed on the base, and whether a shady airline that might be a CIA cover had anything to do with it. At the same time one of the detectives is looking into the disappearance of a young girl thirty years before. A good story, I’d read another by this author.
I am currently reading Captain James Cook by Rob Mundle for the second time. It always amazes me the story of those guys who boarded a boat without knowing where they were going to go, what they might find, or when they would be coming back.