Luke's Reading Lists

Hello hello... Long time no see. Very quietly I have decided to start re-launching the reading lists. The reason why it's going to be a soft launch is simple... I am not yet sure whether I'll be able to commit to it fully, but for the time being at least, I found a bit more spare time on my hands, and I am going to start re-publishing and sharing what I've been reading.  Relative to my history, the ambition of these reading lists is going to be slightly less grand. I am aiming for a mere 3 books per month, for a total of around 1500 pages (so often I was tripped up previously by choosing weighty tomes...) which makes for a quite manageable 50 pages a day. The other big shift is I now have to read at least one of them given I have joined a new Book Club (happy to share details for those interested) which emphasises non-fiction. Anyhow, enough chit-chat... September took me to "Ultra-Processed People" which is a rather scary book on processed food, Stanley Tucci...

 As we cruise into May, I thought it was timely to actually get around to writing the April Reading List. Astute readers will of course notice that the March Reading List appears to be lost in the ether somewhere... this is not actually through a lack of reading on my part, but rather through a lack of writing. Nonetheless, I shall endeavour to get back on track from here, and will try to present the May Reading List in a much more timely fashion.  Anyhow, without further ado... This is possibly the most varied reading list in terms of content I've ever constructed, so I hope you enjoy it. As always, please keep firing the recommendations my way!   

The February Reading List:  I'm pleased to present the February Reading List! This month I've read on Politics, Geopolitics, Art, and Finance. My favourite of the month was definitely the financial thriller Wealth, War and Wisdom, but there's a wide range for all tastes this month.  As always, please do submit your recommendations, comments, and questions - the recommendation list is already quite long, but I promise I will get to them eventually!  Anyhow, let's jump in! 

Hello Reader,  Welcome to what will be the first of the new edition of reading lists. Many of you who find yourself here will remember a prior series I did like this, but I am completely relaunching the focus of the reading lists. The original series was designed to cover the widest range of topics each month possible, which actually seriously limited my ability to take recommendations.  This time, reading lists will be driven much more by your recommendations! Please do send them in by the ream... no pun intended. In the last few months, I've collected, by my account, some 20 recommendations... that ought to keep me going. Otherwise, the format will largely be the same, with the slight exception that because I now have a full-time job, we will be cutting the monthly target down to four books, and giving myself more flexibility over not meeting that target. One of the problems of the original series was it constricted my willingness to start longer books, as it involved more w...