Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Enjoying Jennie Rooney's Red Joan.

 

[SHRIMPERPETER]

Shrimperzone?

 

[johnlattimerssponge]

Life in a Jungle the Bruce Grobbelaar autobiography. Not quite finished it yet but his life experiences are certainly more varied than most player's.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Jaqueline Riding's Peterloo:The Story of the Manchester Massacre.Provides the historical background to Mike Leigh's excellent film.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Sybil Rosen's Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley.A moving, extremely well-written memoir

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Paul Mason's Clear Bright Future.Good analysis on the collapse of neo-liberalism with the 2008 crash. Not quite so strong on the socialist alternative,unfortunately.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Dorian Lynskey's The Ministry of Truth.Looks like a great read for all George Orwell fans.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

About 200 pages into John Bew's Citizen Clem about Attlee. Clem sounds like an absolute legend

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

About 200 pages into John Bew's Citizen Clem about Attlee. Clem sounds like an absolute legend

It's a wonderful ( but long ) book.Always remember Churchill's comment abot Clem;"He's a modest little man who has a lot to be modest about." Churchill couldn't have been more wrong.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

It's a wonderful ( but long ) book.Always remember Churchill's comment abot Clem;"He's a modest little man who has a lot to be modest about." Churchill couldn't have been more wrong.

I've heard that Churchill never said that of him and was angry with it being attributed to him because he bloody loved Attlee but I think it gets repeated in the book

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I've heard that Churchill never said that of him and was angry with it being attributed to him because he bloody loved Attlee but I think it gets repeated in the book

Alternative facts? I believe it does get mentioned in the book, though I read it sometime ago and can't be sure now.I'd certainly heard the remark attributed to Churchill some time beforehand. It certainly sounds in character and I'd be suprised if WC didn't actually say it.Either way,the point is, I suppose, that they worked pefectly well together in wartime with CA a huge force behind the scenes.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Ian Rankin's The Black Book.An early Rebus.Excellent as always.

 

[blues exile]

Alternative facts? I believe it does get mentioned in the book, though I read it sometime ago and can't be sure now.I'd certainly heard the remark attributed to Churchill some time beforehand. It certainly sounds in character and I'd be suprised if WC didn't actually say it.Either way,the point is, I suppose, that they worked pefectly well together in wartime with CA a huge force behind the scenes.

It's not in my old edition of the Oxford Book of Quotations which has a couple of pages on Churchill. This was published back in the day when everything was accurately sourced and long before the internet enabled all sorts of nonsense to masquerade as fact. I had always remembered that 'quote' as it sounds so Churchillian, but it's obviously nigh impossible to separate the man from the myth.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

"He did say, when President Truman said that Attlee seemed a modest man, “he has much to be modest about.” But that was a private remark, which someone on Truman’s staff overheard and repeated."

A brief internet trawl dragged up this.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Started (and finished) Greta Thunberg's "No one is too small to make a difference" after lunch.It's a short but important book.

 

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Halfway through An American Marriage by Tayari Jones.It's a well-writen update of James Baldwin's If only Beale street could Talk for the Black lives matter movement.Should make a good film.

 

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Just started Perfididious Albion by Sam Byers.An amusing , satirical post-Brexit novel.Good luck all-you're going to need it.

 

[blues exile]

"Exterminate all the brutes" by Sven Lindqvist which uses Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' (the title is from that work) as a starting point into the origins of European genocide.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs. Got it as a birthday present and getting it out the way so I can take some pure fun silliness on holiday next week. It's interesting enough though, no worries on that score

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Tom Bower's Dangerous Hero.A well-written hatchet job on Jeremy Corbyn.