56. This Way Up - Mark Cooper-Jones & Jay Foreman

 Would have been better as a YouTube channel:

55. Termush - Jeff VanderMeer

To get back into reading fiction, I realised I needed short books and inspired by gary_turk on Instagram I picked this one up from ebay.  Gary listed a number of short books that could be read in a day.

Gary also recommended:

A Short Stay in Hell - Steven L. Peck

I who have never known men - 

All my friends -

The invention of Morel

Foster - Claire Keegan

Orbital -

Train Dreams - 

54. And What Do You Do? - Norman Baker

 

This "fully updated" edition (2000) was published before the death of the Queen but still manages to include all issues that have since been brought up, including Andy.

53. The Great Troll War - Jasper Fforde

 Final book in series (after 2,3, and 4 in this blog.)

52. The Limits to Growth - Donella & Dennis Meadows

 

"If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.  The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population an industrial capacity."  1972

A YouTube explanation I like is by Georg Rockall-Schmidt (parts one, two and three).

51. Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde

 

Great sequel to Shades of Grey

"Oh, brave new world that has such colours in it."

50. Abolish the Monarchy - Graham Smith

 

49. FLAGYL The story of a Pharmaceutical Discovery - J. A. McFadzean

 

Well, this seems a strange book to read but it's oddly personal.  When I announced to my family that I intended to go to university to study pharmacy, they said that there was a pharmacist in the family one Eric Baines who worked at May & Baker.  Apparaently he was the husband of one of my father's cousins - I never did meet him.  Well staring out of the pages - there he was, in charge of New Products Development who thought that the new drug showed promised when marketing were not supporting its development. 

48. Generation Rent - Chloe Timperley

 

47. Nothing but the Truth - The Secret Barrister

 

 I wasn't going to buy this book as I had read the previous books by the Secret Barrister (see 8 Stories of the Law and 38 Fake Law) but I read the first page and a half in the shop and it's the best hook ever!

 

 

 

46. Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O'Brien

 

45. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity - Carlo M. Cipolla

 

44. The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything - Jonn Elledge

 

43. Honourable Misfits - Marie Le Conte

 

 

If anyone is wondering what happened to my attempt at reading 100 books in 2 years, I have to admit that I am a little behind schedule becuase of Covid (obviously).  My gaming group has gone online and I am now immersed in Elder Scroills Online!

42. 9 Lessons in Brexit - Ivan Rogers

A short book, written at the end of 2018, it is essentially his lecture given here.
 

41. The Gran Tour - Ben Aitken

 

A Christams book given to me as I had previously said that going on my wife's choir coach tours was training for Saga holidays!!

Well, I've read only 40 books in the last three years! I blame Brexit!

 

40. My Secret Falklands War - Sidney Edwards

Talked about by Lindybeige here who gives a wider picture of the Falklands war and the involvement of Chile.

39. Brexit without the Bullshit - Gavin Esler

 

Published in June 2019, obviously before the Covid-19 crisis which finally put the madness of Brexit into some sort of perspective.  This book had no new surprises for me.

I expect to be tweeting:  "Well, what did you expect would happen?" for the foreseeable future.

The real question remains:  what is the real goal of those pushing for Brexit?

38. Fake Law - Secret Barrister

 

Another Twitter author.  At this rate I am never going to read any of the classics piling up on my shelves!

37. Anti-Social - Nick Pettigrew

Yet another recommendation from Twitter.

Being managed by case numbers is familiar to me, but the behaviour of residents is another world to me.