What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Smeagol]

Rise of the West by William McNeill.

[Creoda]

Some books I've enjoyed recently:

HMS Ulysses - Alistair MacLean
Prey - Michael Crichton
Civilization - Niall Ferguson
The Anarchy - William Dalrymple
A War of Empires - Robert Lyman
The Great Anglo-Boer War - Byron Farwell
One Minute to Midnight - Michael Dobbs

[lei.talk]

There is apparently a plan ready if for example riots were to get really out of hands, even more than last time and the army is working on their own without governement approval. It's called the "Opération Ronces" (bramble op) but nobody has any more details about it. It would involve indeed the army and Gendarmerie (Police branch, that is reserve military). Some journalists have revealed the army has already imagined how to deal with some nightmare scenarios, their big concern is if for example riots would coincide with another wave of terrorist attacks, both on civilians and infrastructures, even nuclear and there are a lot of reactors in France (many drone reconnaissances were detected at some point). The source of the leaks seems to be this former journalist under an alias "Laurent Obertone" (Fenêtre d'Overton) he wrote a trilogy of books describing possibly these scenarios in a romanticized style (to what degree is unknown), but they are it seems considering something like that in the army deep state.

[Andullero]

[Incal]

This story intrigued me for a while:

[Your Old Comrade]

Just finished this:



My reading list for this week:

[Rafael Passoni]

[Rogan]

Current Reads:

"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World" by Mark Kurlansky

"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski

A beach read to unwind. It's a bit surreal and mind bending thriller that plays with narrative structure, perfect for those who like a book that's both intriguing and a bit unsettling.

[Batavia]

[Jingle Bell]

Menino de Engenho, José Lins do Rêgo