Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Nick Lloyd's excellent Forgotten Places,Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War.

Anyone planning a trip to Barna and interested in this period,should sign up for one of Nick's (via Facebook) highly informative walking tours of the city center.

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Just started Nick Lloyd'd excellent Forgotten Places,Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War.

Anyone planning a trip to Barna and interested in this period,should sign up for one of Nick's (via Facebook) highly informative walking tours of the city center.

See if he knows where my grandparents are buried.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

See if he knows where my grandparents are buried.

He organises trips to Monjuic,where a lot of people were shot and buried where they fell.FB him with your grandparents names.He's a nice guy and will help if he can.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

i'm reading Das Reboot by Rafa Honigstein which is about how Germany got good at football again and won the world cup.

it's pretty interesting and really relevant as i'd love us to win an international trophy some day but it doesn't half jump around a lot, i'm fairly lost with what he's going on about as one minute he's talking about Germany preparing some a World Cup 2014 match then he's talking about some bloke who was a player in the 70s and their contribution to regional youth football.

but overall it's interesting

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The Noise of Time.Julian Barnes.

Just started this.Doesn't look as good as The Sense of an Ending.Shorter though.:smile:

 

[Swiss Tony]

Just started Nick Lloyd'd excellent Forgotten Places,Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War.

Anyone planning a trip to Barna and interested in this period,should sign up for one of Nick's (via Facebook) highly informative walking tours of the city center.

Keep your hands in your pockets though, it's the pick pocket capital of Europe.:thumbdown:

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

The Noise of Time.Julian Barnes.

Just started this.Doesn't look as good as The Sense of an Ending.Shorter though.:smile:

i got that for my birthday. really enjoying it.
i have to keep reminding myself that it's fiction though, don't know how much is based on truth but it's really good at doing those little bits that seem like they are real.
up there with 1984 as a tale of living under totalitarianism, horrible

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

i got that for my birthday. really enjoying it.
i have to keep reminding myself that it's fiction though, don't know how much is based on truth but it's really good at doing those little bits that seem like they are real.
up there with 1984 as a tale of living under totalitarianism, horrible

It's certainly very good about life in the Soviet Union under Stalin.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Keep your hands in your pockets though, it's the pick pocket capital of Europe.:thumbdown:

Dpending where and when you go and if you're clued up or not.

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

It's certainly very good about life in the Soviet Union under Stalin.

certainly seems it, i wonder how accurate it is. seems bloody horrible either way

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Rosa Prince's biography Comrade Corbyn.

Given that RP is an ex-lobby correspondent for the Torygraph it's not quite the hatchet job that it could have been.Clearly the author is not much of a fan of JC though.

The book, perhaps not suprisingly, is much better on the events of the last year or so rather than on deep background.

 

[Uncle Leo]

The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene

Blimey.Nothing like keeping up with new British fiction.:winking:

 

[Uncle Leo]

Blimey.Nothing like keeping up with new British fiction.:winking:

Sorry, I'd been busy catching up on your mate Nick Lloyd'd.

 

[Napster]

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. Lagging a bit but interesting.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Sorry, I'd been busy catching up on your mate Nick Lloyd'd.

Now corrected.Thanks for the heads up.:raspberry:

 

[Ricey]

Just finished reading Clarke Carlisle's book, not your usual footballers self absorbed biography. Look at me and how great I am/was ******** that normally comes with one. Talks a lot about his drinking problems and then his issues with depression a really interesting read from what comes across as a genuinely nice bloke.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Aside from having the temerity to read a book published 60 years ago, I'm also dipping in and out of the first volume of Simon Schama's History of Britain.

We've just had the Peasants' Revolt (not really instigated by peasants at all, but lots of Essex towns get a mention) and now Richard II is getting a bit big for his boots. This won't end well for him.

 

[Napster]

This won't end well for him.

No spoilers!

 

[Chalky]

Just finished reading Clarke Carlisle's book, not your usual footballers self absorbed biography. Look at me and how great I am/was ******** that normally comes with one. Talks a lot about his drinking problems and then his issues with depression a really interesting read from what comes across as a genuinely nice bloke.

Absolutely detest the man. Attempted suicide by jumping in front of a lorry. And last year the driver who was driving the lorry ended up killing himself. Due to, which I believe, was some sort of PTSD and guilt. He also had a wife and kids. Clarkes selfish actions resulted in a young family growing up without a father.

And now he sells stories to the paper about is "experiences" :whistling: in my eyes he is responsible for the death of a young man.