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Out of interest (if any one is)
I am presently reading a book written by a man called Kenny Jones, who are the drummer from the Small Faces, psychedelic Rock group from the mid 60s. Kenny Jones also went on to play in the Faces, and after that, the Who as well (after Keith Moon Died).

Quiet interesting as a musician to get an insight and the true stories behind the era that is long gone now.
During the times when cheeky young men could be cheeky and have fun without the Political Correctness Squad jumping all over you.

I also plan to start reading soon a couple of other books. One about Steve Bannon, the man who was the strategist (another word for spin doctor or propagandist?) behind the Donald Trump campaign, who even Trump sacked.
I read because I want to make an informed decision about the person, to examine the facts (if there are any).
As I have heard very scary things about this guy which worry me, and perhaps should worry more of the people out there if what the rumours are true. But as I am fair, I think it is better to examine the evidence.

The other books are a classroom in a book on Adobe Illustrator, as I would love to be able to make decent digital illustrations and a book called Japanese Jiu Jutsu, which is about the traditional Ju Jutsu styles that Judo and Gracie Ju Jutsu came from. The kind of ju jutsu that Jon Wick is supposed to do, in case anyone has seen the film.

cheers

That's a pretty good variety of reading material.

My brother is reading that Kenny Jones book!

February 2013 to February 2014= one year
February 2014 to February 2015= one year
February 2015 to February 2016=one year
February 2016 to February 2017=one year
February 2017 to February 2018= one year
February 2018 to February 2019= one year
Thus,
February 2013 to February 2019= six years

Sylvia is very important to me and though, I may not be the best at math, I am pretty sure that I know how many years I have been studying Sylvia, especially since it correlates very closely to my initial trauma in December of 2012...

Age 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 = 7 years

2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 = 7 times

Unless it takes you a year to read the book each time.

I'm glad you enjoy the book, Sylvia. It's a classic.
Welcome to WP.

"mind hacking" is about how to change your thoughts, in a positive way

I turned sixteen in August of 2012. I read "The Bell Jar" for the first time in February of 2013. I was sixteen and a half when I began reading it. The whole of my sixteen year does not count. I am now 22 and a half. The whole of my twenty-second year does not count. Subtract two halves and you subtract a whole year. It has been six years...

Also, it does not take me a year to read the book... It usually varies between a few days to about a month. More if I am in a depressive episode. This is my sixth time reading the book. In December of this year, I will start reading the book again and I will do this every year after that...

Selected Father Brown stories by GK Chesterton.

Barker, Juliet. The Brontës : A Life in Letters. London: Little, Brown, 2016.

Add this one to my list. It arrived in the post and looks wonderful.

Bullet Proof Witch: Delivery Of The Flesh, by F.W. Blair.

Dark, gritty fantasy set in an old west world where a bounty hunter bringing in demons to human law seeks to avenge a wrong done to her family. The author is a member of my writers group, The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers Of Spokane.

S K Trevayne: The ice twins

so far, so good


rereading the second book of Jeff Povey's trilogy before moving on to the unread third.

Rev's obsession on Johnson and Other-Johnson is driving me up the wall in these books. You're trapped in another dimension, you have much more important stuff to think of, to say nothing of the fact that Johnson seems to be very wishywashy, and Other-Johnson is doing nothing less than mindrape. She should forget about J, and run for the hills when it comes to O-J!

These books could have been so exciting if that nonsense had been downplayed.

it also really annoys me that they keep calling the other versions of themselves aliens. They're just themselves from another dimension, stop with the alien crap.

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.

The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre

very good

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green.

The Professor, Charlotte Brontë (posthumous, 1857)

Du Maurier, Daphne. The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë. London: Virago, 2006.

"As a bold and gifted child, Branwell Brontë's promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult, the precocious flame of genius distorted and burned low. With neither the strength nor the resources to counter rejection, unable to sell his paintings or publish his books, Branwell became a spectre in the Brontë story, in pathetic contrast with the astonishing achievements of his sisters.

Daphne du Maurier concentrates all her biographer's skill on the shadowy figure of Branwell Brontë, and no reader could fail to be intensely moved by Branwell's final retreat into laudanum, alcohol - and death."