2010s


Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Gone Girl
The Fault in Our Stars
Normal People
The Girl on the Train
The Goldfinch
The Song of Achilles
The Martian
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Station Eleven
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
Circe
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
All the Light We Cannot See
Eric J. Hobsbawm
The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one thing, stress much more that for most people in the past 13 years, the period was not one of collapse into chaos but actually one where the situation improved, and particularly in areas such as schools, hospitals and a variety of other cultural achievements—so the idea that somehow or other it all ne ...more
Eric Hobsbawm

Geoffrey Boycott
The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for this one. It's just like the West Indies again; once their great names from the 1970s and 80s retired, the whole thing fell apart. The way things are going, the next Ashes series cannot come too quickly for England. What a shame that we have to wait until 2013 to play this lot again. ...more
Geoffrey Boycott

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