Question What are you reading?

[rigsby]

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

Worse than the 300,000 babies stolen in Spain?

 

[Mad Cyril]

Books by former Shrimpers don't come aroud too often, so I suggest you put this one on your list for Santa.

I can recommend The Unger Games by Lars Unger.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Worse than the 300,000 babies stolen in Spain?

Ha! You don't give up,do you? Yes IMO.

The two cases aren't really comparable but I stand by my opinon.Especially as The Windrush Scandal reflects a contemporary problem (rather than an historical one) which caused the resignation of one Tory Home Secretary and I believe would/should have also led to the hounding from office of a second, if she hadn't been PM at the time and if Brexit hadn't then been such an overriding issue in UK politics

 

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Looking good

Wish I'd see this before I ordered another book this am.In my basket though.

 

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Nearly finished Alison Light's wonderful memoir:A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation. Good Xmas read.

 

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Currently enjoying John Osborne's Look Back in Anger which I picked up second hand along with Piketty's Capital for a bargain 5 euros.

 

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Started (and finished ) yesterday James Balwin:The Last Interview and Other Converstaions.Fascinating read.

 

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Another vote for Derek Spence's From the Troubles to the Tower. (Thanks to The Big Daddy for the heads up).Just read the short chapter on his time with us so far.Lovely tribute to our very own Dave Brabbing (also on SZ).I remember that pitch side presentation well.Loved watching Derek Spence and Keith Mercer play for us.We had a great side in those days.

 

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Currently reading, Colin Grant's Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation.Fascinating oral history.

 

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Just finished J.M.Coetzee's fascinating The Death Of Jesus.

 

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Just finished Roberto Bolaño's disturbing short story collection:Last Evenings on Earth.

 

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Nellie Bly`s (journalistic pseudonym) Ten Days in a Mad-House.An historical account of her experiences in NY's Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum.Doubt if that many things have changed for the better,unfortunately.

 

[Mad Cyril]

The 100 page machine learning book.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

James Baldwin's Collected Essays.Powerful stuff.

 

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Currenty reading ER Braithtwaite's Too Sir ,Wth Love.Loved the film in its day but never got round to reading this excellent the novel before.

 

[MK Shrimper]

I read the first two (short) chapters of A Girl is A Half Formed Thing by Eimar McBride. No idea what I read, it's like Joyce's Ulysses. Completely unintellegable.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Finished Roberto Bolano's Last Interview yesterday.Concluded that I'm not as much a fan as our younger daugther is.

 

[Napster]

Andrew Scull's Madness in Civilisation, a cultural history of insanity
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166155/madness-in-civilization

 

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Currently reading David Yaffe's Reckless Daughter:A Portrait of Joni Mitchell.First rate biography.

 

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Just started Colin Grant's enjoyable Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970's Childhood in Surburbia.In Luton in CG's case though his acount is a Jamaican one, rather than the Asian ubringing portrayed in the recent Blinded by the Light.
How come white working class kids don't get to publish their childhood memoirs anymore?