Patrick Skinner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Patrick Skinner

“All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was led by an idiot” Bad Actors Mick Herron

Patrick Skinner

@maureenmccoy The Wok Kenji Lopéz-Alt The Korean Vegan by @thekoreanvegan The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters Land of Plenty, & Every Grain of Rice, by Fuchsia Dunlop @fuchsiadunlop A few more. All pictured below https://t.co/3D24Va9Axq

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Reading again A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by one of my favorite authors, George Saunders. This book arose from him teaching short stories by several Russian authors (Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Gogol) over many years 1/2 https://t.co/k3BN63Mkt5

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This was lovely. Hear the pups barking & walk out to see Donald on the sidewalk. He wanted to show me & Theresa some family pics of his brother Paul & the rest of their family from decades ago. He just saw us walking back from the kitties & wanted to share a history. And he did

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Rereading Watership Down by Richard Adams as I frame out some children/adult/everybody books about the Eastside Orangeys, and MeanCat and his gang. This is such a great comment by Adams about how the book became so much more than he intended. It wasn’t a parable; It’s a story. https://t.co/3iYnYBTqt1

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I will read anything Cormac McCarthy writes, because even if it falls short for reviewers, it is life times further than I will ever go. McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is, as Harold Bloom notes, ‘the authentic American apocalyptic novel’ & it is indeed more relevant now than in 1985 https://t.co/fTHfJndlza

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I so enjoy reading a bit of the Slough House series every night when I come in from dreary detective stuff. Such good writing. ‘There were times he could admire his mother’s self-absorption: it was a rare example of her showing total commitment” ‘Joe Country’ Mick Herron

Patrick Skinner

Reading again A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by one of my favorite authors, George Saunders. This book arose from him teaching short stories by several Russian authors (Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Gogol) over many years 1/2 https://t.co/k3BN63Mkt5

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Rereading an old favorite on a topic that never seems to diminish in importance or relevance. ‘A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924’ by Orlando Figes. Monstrously good and important book in my tiny opinion. https://t.co/FfqT4Yos2t

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Reading ‘We Own This City’ by @justin_fenton about corruption and worse in Baltimore PD. Just started it and then see @AoDespair is filming an adaptation of it. It’s an important and uncomfortable and necessary story.