Anything like the "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" series?
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He couldn't write for shinola which is why he went into the religion business...i think somebody said to him if its money you want you'd be better off founding your own religion
I picked up a couple of these on a one Euro deal. Just finished the first one (#6 in the series) but found it difficult to get into (translation problems?) and didn't really like the characters. But then I'm not particularly a Jo Nesbo fan either, so take that with a pinch of salt.
Without mentioning spoilers, it was obviously harking back to some major event involving the team, so it might be better to read the series from the beginning.
Just typed his name in my ebook app - 5 hits, 4 available, 1 on hold...book 1
A friend and colleague of mine just wrote this popular science book. Looks like it will be interesting. He's been studying physiology from an evolutionary perspective across humans and nonhuman primates for decades. He's wicked smart, funny, and a great explainer. This isn't meant to be a "shill" post, rather it might genuinely interest folks here. It's out in March:
The blurb from the back cover:
We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we'll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, Herman Pontzer reveals for the first time how human metabolism really works so that we can finally manage our weight and improve our health.
Pontzer's groundbreaking studies with hunter-gatherer tribes show how exercise doesn't increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. This was a brilliant evolutionary strategy to survive in times of famine. Now it seems to doom us to obesity. The good news is we can lose weight, but we need to cut calories. Refuting such weight-loss hype as paleo, keto, anti-gluten, anti-grain, and even vegan, Pontzer discusses how all diets succeed or fail: For shedding pounds, a calorie is a calorie.
At the same time, we must exercise to keep our body systems and signals functioning optimally, even if it won't make us thinner. Hunter-gatherers like the Hadza move about five hours a day and remain remarkably healthy into old age. But elite athletes can push the body too far, burning calories faster than their bodies can take them in. It may be that the most spectacular athletic feats are the result not just of great training, but of an astonishingly efficient digestive system.
The blurb from the back cover:
We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we'll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, Herman Pontzer reveals for the first time how human metabolism really works so that we can finally manage our weight and improve our health.
Pontzer's groundbreaking studies with hunter-gatherer tribes show how exercise doesn't increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. This was a brilliant evolutionary strategy to survive in times of famine. Now it seems to doom us to obesity. The good news is we can lose weight, but we need to cut calories. Refuting such weight-loss hype as paleo, keto, anti-gluten, anti-grain, and even vegan, Pontzer discusses how all diets succeed or fail: For shedding pounds, a calorie is a calorie.
At the same time, we must exercise to keep our body systems and signals functioning optimally, even if it won't make us thinner. Hunter-gatherers like the Hadza move about five hours a day and remain remarkably healthy into old age. But elite athletes can push the body too far, burning calories faster than their bodies can take them in. It may be that the most spectacular athletic feats are the result not just of great training, but of an astonishingly efficient digestive system.
Keeping on the Human Body theme of the Bill Bryson book I'm still reading through, I've picked this up in audio book format for the work commute:
"The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever. In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875."
Eye wateringly interesting and fascinatingly gruesome in equal measures. Right up my street!
"The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever. In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875."
Eye wateringly interesting and fascinatingly gruesome in equal measures. Right up my street!
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I'm mainly into psychology books. Last one I read was By Elliot Aronson and Carol Travis called 'Mistake were made(but not by me)'
Shook my head a few times reading it. Probably one of the most interesting book I've read in a while.
Shook my head a few times reading it. Probably one of the most interesting book I've read in a while.
Winters Bone by Daniel Woodrell.
American Noir. Take of a young Hillbilly girl desperately trying to stop the family house being seized by bail bondsmen.
Relentlessly bleak, which I normally enjoy, but it’s written in “ Hillbilly Speak “ which made it quite hard to read at times.
The book won all kinds of awards, but I enjoyed the excellent adaptation of the film, with a very young Jennifer Lawrence in the lead more tbh.
And will sell about a dozen copies and the author will be working in Macdonalds next year.
Maybe it's just pretentious crap
It`s the literary version of the Mercury Prize, in other words, a load of high brow, Guardian reading critics wanking off to something that the general public will never read or listen to.
Like when Badly Drawn Boy won the Mercury Prize lol
Those of you who like historical crime might appreciate the Damian Seeker series, written by S.G MacLean and set in the English Civil War period. Picked a couple of them up on a Kindle deal and they are well worth a read.
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Just finished Lorna Sage’s autobiography, Bad Blood. Very good.
Next up I have, An Evil Cradling, by Brian Keenan.
Next up I have, An Evil Cradling, by Brian Keenan.
Yet again my ebook supplier has book 2 but not book 1Those of you who like historical crime might appreciate the Damian Seeker series, written by S.G MacLean and set in the English Civil War period. Picked a couple of them up on a Kindle deal and they are well worth a read.