Question What are you reading?

[rigsby]

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?

I'm told Enemy of the State by Tommy Robinson is a very good read......Let us know if its any good.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm told Enemy of the State by Tommy Robinson is a very good read......Let us know if its any good.

Fanks but no thanks.

 

[blues exile]

Fanks but no thanks.

When an English translation is available I might be interested out of curiosity.

 

[rigsby]

Fanks but no thanks.

How about Cassie Pike and her account of growing up in Halifax. Ticks lots of boxes that would be right up your street....Abandoned by the government, dismissed by the media and the police used against her when she was just trying to fight for her basic human rights.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

How about Cassie Pike and her account of growing up in Halifax. Ticks lots of boxes that would be right up your street....Abandoned by the government, dismissed by the media and the police used against her when she was just trying to fight for her basic human rights.

I'll fink about it but got quite a lot to read atm.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Jack Fairweather's The Volunteer : the true story of the resistance hero who infilitrated Auschwitz.Well written and intensly moving.Another nail in thecoffin for those who think war is a zero-sum game.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Enjoying Chris Atkins's A Bit Of A Stretch.The Diaries OF A Prisoner.Wandworth in his case.Entertaining read but conditions there seem to have declined drastically since I was a visitor,in the late 70's.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Dominic Sandbrook's excellent Never Had It So good:A History Of Britain From Suez To The Beatles.

 

[Blueronron]

Anyone else read Simon Scarrow books about the Roman army, great reads and lose your self story lines

Would recommend you start with the first book, on how the legion became one,then you can mix and match as they march and fight around the world

Some facts thrown in,but generally a good read /yarn

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Anyone else read Simon Scarrow books about the Roman army, great reads and lose your self story lines

Would recommend you start with the first book, on how the legion became one,then you can mix and match as they march and fight around the world

Some facts thrown in,but generally a good read /yarn

Excuse me but what are you doing on Barna`s thread

 

[Napster]

I was reading Lars Keplers Stalker but it was terrible. Now starting some Korean crime caper

 

[Blueronron]

Excuse me but what are you doing on Barna`s thread

He’s choices are too high brow for me, I like to have crayons with the ones I read

 

[RHB]

Anyone else read Simon Scarrow books about the Roman army, great reads and lose your self story lines

Would recommend you start with the first book, on how the legion became one,then you can mix and match as they march and fight around the world

Some facts thrown in,but generally a good read /yarn

Macro and Cato time! As you say cracking reads.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

He’s choices are too high brow for me, I like to have crayons with the ones I read

Don't normally recommend any of our grandson's books (though I've had quite a bit of practise reading them) but he's not really much of a crayons fan,when it comes to a bedtime read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently enjoying Graham Swift's brillant Here We Are.

 

[cerbera45]

Cheerful Sacrifice (1917 Battle of Arras) by Jonathan Nicholls

 

[Napster]

The Shining Girls - brilliant horror.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Dracula.

Hard work.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Dracula.

Hard work.

Really? Great entertainment IMO.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Richard Bradford's Orwell:A Man OF Our Time.Controversial but very much a bookk for our time too.