Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Went there in Easter and like many English seaside towns, it's hugely in decline.

Very much like SOS, unfortunately.

Edit Kerry Hudson revisted GY earlier this year and she found the town much improved from when she was a teenager there in the 90's.Whether that will continue to be the case in a place that voted 71% for Brexit remains to be seen.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Mararet Atwood's The Testaments:The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.


Powerful stuff.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Michel Houellebcq's Serotonin.The "enfant terrible" of modern French literature doesn't do political correctness but he's still a great writer (even in translation).

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Hole in my Pocket.Mike Wade's excellent biography of Mickey Jupp.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Half way through Zadie Smith's Grand Union.Her first collection of short stories.Well written but not really my sort of thing, as most of the stories are set in NYC where she lives these days.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently engrossed in Dominic Sandbrook's massive Who Dares Wins: Britain,1979-1982.Arguably the beginning of the most controversial period in modern British history.Apart from the current situation ,of course.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

About halfway through Ian McEwan's timely Brexit satire :The Cockroach.Should have finished it by "Die in the Ditch Day" ie 31st October.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

American Tabloid part one of the Underworld USA trilogy by James Ellroy - usual high Ellroy standard so far.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Amelia Gentlemen's The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Enviroment.Easily,the most outrageous political scandal of my adult lifetime.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently enjoying The Man in the Red Coat:Julian Barnes.His take on the Parisan La Belle Epoque.In some ways, it's a pity that such a lifelong francophile hasn't done more to condemn the present Brexit nonsense.His Author's Note certainly makes his opinion clear,however.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Miles:The Autobiography.Should really have caught up with this some time ago.

 

[Napster]

Just started Miles:The Autobiography.Should really have caught up with this some time ago.

only 30 years late.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Just started Miles:The Autobiography.Should really have caught up with this some time ago.

Miles Hunt from The Wonderstuff?

 

[blues exile]

only 30 years late.

I see one of his trumpets fetched $275000 at an auction the other day.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Miles Hunt from The Wonderstuff?

Golden. Green.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

only 30 years late.

Yeah but I did see him live before he passed.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Yanis Varoufakis's :Adults in the Room.Interesting.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

Well Tangled, and maybe the occasional other visitor to this thread, time for a new one. Our very own Player of the Year 1980/81, Derek Spence, has just published his autobiography 'From the Troubles to the Tower'

It's a cracking read - I helped him with it!

Only out on kindle at the moment, we are just waiting for the publisher link with Amazon for the paperback to come on stream and then we'll launch it fully

And I'll get Derek down to Roots Hall in the New Year for a signing session.

Books by former Shrimpers don't come aroud too often, so I suggest you put this one on your list for Santa.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Troubles-T...e+troubles+to+the+tower&qid=1575931890&sr=8-1

 

[The Big Dady]

Looking good

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently enjoying Bill V.Mullen's new biography and critical study of James Baldwin.