Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Edward White's The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock:An Anatomy pf The Master of Suspense.Enjoyable. Hitch was a lot funnier than he's usually given credit for.

 

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Finished Sinéad O' Connor`s Rememberings yesterday.She's good on her music, otherwise this is depressing and sometimes weird, rather like the author herself I suppose.

 

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Nearly finished Gillian Tett's excellent Anthro Vision:How Anthropology can Explain Business and Life.Long been a fan of GT's FT journalism.She correctly predicted the 2008 crash and Trump's election.Not Brexit.Still 2/3 's not bad.

 

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Currently reading Robin Bunce's and Samara Linton's Authorised biography of Dianne Abbott.

 

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Currently reading Ever Fallen in Love.the lost Buzzcock Tapes by Pete Shelley with Louie Shelley.Interesting.

 

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Nearly finished Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour.Kes it's not but the stuff on his birthfather Heathcote Williams is excellent.Not quite so interested in the magpie bit of the story myself.

 

[Rob Noxious]

An amusing exercise in jolly-japery via this collection of letters during last year’s lockdown to various UK punk rock groups and/or their songwriters – and some inspired replies too. You probably need to know the bands/records referenced to really enjoy all of it but it’s still quite fun even if you don’t.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 by Juliet Barker.

Quite fun seeing where I grew up and all the places I know from round home getting a mention

 

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Just started FM 247 Radios in Motion:A pop Novel by Rob Spooner.

Full disclosure :-As the Hollies used to sing "He aint heavy.He's my brother."

 

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Just started Peter Mandler's The Crisis of the Meritocracy:Britain's transittion to Mass Education since the Second World War.

Rather hard going for what should be a fascinating subject.

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

I'm very religious...and my religion is football...so, I am currently reading Shrimperzone. Soon, i'll be visting my temple (Roots Hall) and will be praying we have a better season this time around.

 

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Just finished Anne Theroux's The Year of the End:A Memoir of Marriage,Truth and Fiction.Interesting read.

 

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Just finished Quentin Tarantino's first novel:Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.Hugely enjoyable.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I am making my way though the Joe Pickett series of books by A J Cox.
Central character is Wyoming Fish and Game Warden, a type of american nature cop. Some interesting storylines around federal corruption, energy and green issues, animals and GUNS.
Recommended to you all.

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

I am making my way though the Joe Pickett series of books by A J Cox.
Central character is Wyoming Fish and Game Warden, a type of american nature cop. Some interesting storylines around federal corruption, energy and green issues, animals and GUNS.
Recommended to you all.

Joe Piggott ?

 

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Just Finished Huw Benyon's and Ray Hudson's The Shadow Of The Mine:Coal and the End Of industrial Britain,An excellent account of the closure of Britain's coalfields and the failure to provide industrial regeneration in the areas of South Wales and Durham in particular by both Thatcher's and Blair's governments..

 

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Just finished Ian Rankin's A Question of Blood.The Rebus novels are really out there on their own in modern detective fiction.

 

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Nearly finished Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother.Not a patch on The Curious Incident....,unfortunately. Rather maudlin in fact.

 

[Rob Noxious]

An enjoyable debut novel and 'coming of age' story. One that's likely to evoke memories of adolescent uncertainties - I couldn't help but think that 'The Barman' narrator's own uncertainties with women might revolve around his estranged relationship with his mother as two of the three women who he admires in this tale become ersatz mother figures to him. Some great dialogue and cracking one-liners amidst the interactions between the habitues of 'The King George'. It's impressive that this novel sustains interest throughout as the setting of a dinghy pub in Sutton Coldfield might not seem like one guaranteed to captivate the reader's attention over 350 or so pages but it does. I just wish there'd been a different ending but I won't elaborate on that as no-one likes a spoiler.

 

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Just started Chris Thomas KIng's excellent The Blues :The Authentic Narrative of My Music.

Saw CTK live a few years ago here.He's probably best known to most people for his appearance in the Cohen Brothers' O Brother.

(Not suprising perhaps since he was born/grew up in Baton Rouge, CTK takes the line that the Blues originated in New Orleans in the 1890's and not In nearby Mississippi some 20 years later).