Question What are you reading?

[Ricey]

Just finished reading:

Chris Kamara - Mr Unbelieveable, very funny book and very honest. Forgot about his managing days and brings back some memories of players who have since disappeared.

Rio Ferdinand - #2sides, again another good read. I was disappointed at the lack of talk about his drugs test miss. Mentions it briefly but doesn't explain anything about it.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Recently finished Colm Tóibin's Nora Webster.Not as good as its predecessor Brooklyn (coming to a cinema screen near you soon) but still very enjoyable.

Very good on small town life in rural Ireland in the 60's and national politics too.

Here's to widows struggling to bring up young sons everywhere.:thumbsup:

 

[OldBlueLady]

Anyone read Go Set a Watchman yet? :unsure:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Anyone read Go Set a Watchman yet? :unsure:

I'm about half-way through it atm.

Enjoying it but it's not a patch on Mockingbird.How could it be?

Have you finished it yet,Kay?

(The publisher's reader who read Watchman and suggested that Harper Lee go away and write a novel based on her childhood did the world a huge favour,IMO).

 

[OldBlueLady]

No, I haven't got it yet, bit undecided whether to get it on the Kindle or to get the book! Waiting to hear some opinions before doing so.

 

[manor15]

Hack by Graham Johnson
Wasn't expecting much as it only cost me £1 from The Works and is by an ex-News of the World journalist, but as I'm interested in that as a career path thought it might be interesting. Felt as though it was all building up to a moment of realisation at the end which never really appeared, and while the insight and some of the stories are shocking and interesting at the same time, and makes it so clear how phone hacking came about, it did almost turn into 300-odd pages of self-glorification and arrogance. Could have done with an extra proof-read too.

Solo by William Boyd
A nice attempt at carrying on from where Ian Fleming left it, and started excellently and wouldn't have looked out of place. The later on it got the more crazy and unrealistic it seemed but maintained the thrill factor and was definitely worth reading. Many unexpected twists and turns as you'd expect.

Happyslapped by a Jellyfish by Karl Pilkington
If you're a fan of Idiot Abroad or anything else with Karl Pilkington then you'll love this. Tales of his travels as a child, teenager and early adulthood, full of his usual reflections on life in a lighthearted way, including a chapter on his trip to hospital with kidney stones, as "being in hospital is kind of like a holiday".

 

[BoyWonder2]

Journeyman by Ben Smith - Ben Smith's (Ex-Shrimper) book is well worth a read. Its all about his spell in lower league football, with the odd mention on games against Southend, plus a brief chapter on his spell here.

The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin - A really interesting insight into the world of football scouts. Lots of Southend United mentions (Jack Butland's game for Cheltenham on Freddy Eastwood's return is mentioned a lot). Really fascinating read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Journeyman by Ben Smith - Ben Smith's (Ex-Shrimper) book is well worth a read. Its all about his spell in lower league football, with the odd mention on games against Southend, plus a brief chapter on his spell here.

The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin - A really interesting insight into the world of football scouts. Lots of Southend United mentions (Jack Butland's game for Cheltenham on Freddy Eastwood's return is mentioned a lot). Really fascinating read.

Both good football books.:thumbsup:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman.

The good news is that it's well worth reading.The bad news is that it's no Mockingbird-but then how could it be?

Basically, HL updates the Mockingbird story by 20 years or so.Some interesting issues raised about racism in the South.

Apparently,there's a third unpublished manuscript in possesion of HL's lawyer.Hope it comes out some day soon.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Southend United. A Season to Remember.2014/2015.By Chris Phillips.

Found this in the letterbox after we'd come back from lunch.Read it this afternoon.A timely reminder of a great season.:thumbsup:

Now where's that DVD?:whistling:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Colin Thurbron's Journey Into Cyprus.Supposed to be the modern classic on Cyprus but not a patch on Lawrence Durrell's 50's memoir Bitter Lemons (IMO).

 

[manor15]

The Nowhere Men by Michael Calvin, I know a few have mentioned it on here before and it is a great read and very interesting so far.

 

[Napster]

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

It's about a girl in a dystopian future in which most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection.

Quite cool but overwrought at times;

 

[Jam_Man]

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

It's about a girl in a dystopian future in which most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection.

Quite cool but overwrought at times;

Is that really a book or just one of your Saturday nights?

 

[Napster]

Is that really a book or just one of your Saturday nights?

It's infinitely more enjoyable than a thread involving kev29

:winking:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently enjoying Hanif Kureishi's superb collection of Stories and Essays:Love +Hate.

Famously, the offspring of a mixed marriage, HK writes movingly about immigrants in his essay These Mysterious Strangers and about Powell in We are the Wide-Eyed Piccaninnies.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Nearly finished Elijah Wood's Dylan Goes Electric (Newport,Seeger,Dylan and the NightThat Split the Sixties).

Excellent account of Dylan's Newport 65 concert and the folk years that preceeded it.

 

[Jam_Man]

Nearly finished Elijah Wood's Dylan Goes Electric (Newport,Seeger,Dylan and the NightThat Split the Sixties).

Excellent account of Dlyan's Newport 65 concert and the folk years that preceeded it.

Somehow I think you may be confusing a music historian with a Hobbit.

 

[banjo saviola]

Just finished Money by Martin Amis this morning.

 

[SonicShrimper]

Demon Road by Derek Landy.

Demons and cannibalism by chapter seven. I don't know how he keeps getting published, I just hope he doesn't stop.