I’m reading David Byrn’s book about music, which covers a lot of ground, from the changing environment in which music was performed, to the technology, recording and the business aspect of music. It’s a practical book for an aspiring musician.
Other than that, this year I’ve also read The Dawn Of Everything by David Wengrow and David Graeber, a book on the history of humanity, especially the social history, written by a world class archaeologist and a world class anthropologist. I have the highest praise for the book.
Other than that, I’ve tried to focus on some older , well known titles. I’ve read The Master and Margarita, which is a pretty wicked book. I’ve read Umberto Eco’s The Name Of The Rose, some Dostoyevsky and some Hermann Hesse. Hesse I’ve read as a teenager and I wanted to see how I will like it today. All of these books were worthy of reading in some way, I think that you can’t got wrong with the classics, when it comes to literature.
I just started Irvine Welsh’s latest book - Men In Love. I usually love settling in with these characters. I feel like I’ve grown up with them having first read Trainspotting in 1993 and reading everything that came after (varying quality). I’m really struggling to get into this one though.
If it’s any interest you can pickup their Aphex book new on eBay for under a fiver (instead of £30 everywhere else). Wasn’t planning on buying it really but came across it somehow and thought I might as well.
