Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

British Summer Time Begin:The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 by Ysenda Maxatone Graham.Well -written but a bit too much focus on middle class holidays for me (with the honourable exeption Of Dennis Skinner's In Clay Cross).

 

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About halfway through James Gavin's detailed autobiography of Chet Baker.Deep in a Dream:The long night of Chet Baker.

Most junkies tend to end up the same way unless they quit unfortunately.No matter how talented they are.

 

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About a third of the way through Chris Frantz's uninspiring Remain In Love.Hardly a suprise really that David Byrne decided to break up Talking Heads.

 

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Just started Zadie Smith's Intimations.

 

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Currently reading Ali Smith's strange new novel Summer.

 

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Just picked up Woody Allen's wonderful autobiography Apropos of Nothing.

 

[Rob Noxious]

A fantastic 'dipper-inner' this and a charming account of what it's like being a vinyl junkie. Tim Burgess nails the obsessional joy of record-collecting and seeks out the recommendations of his various friends in music, football and showbiz whilst celebrating the vinyl emporia from across the globe that might just have these varied choices deep in their crates. This has a personal interest for me not just as an erstwhile searcher of vinyl from yesteryear but also because my best mate is quoted in it - from Tim's forays into his record shop in Norfolk. He also got Tim to sign my copy which makes it all the more special too. I especially loved Tim's description of his chance meeting with Lou Reed - you can really picture this moment of brilliant Lou droll.

 

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Nearly finished Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley.Great read.

 

[RHB]

About to start Gates of Fire (again x3, it's that good). Fiction written by Steven Pressfield, it tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae through Xeones, a perioikoi (free but non-citizen inhabitant of Sparta) born in Astakos, and one of only three Greek survivors of the battle.

 

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Just started Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life.Interesting.

 

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Just started Selina Todd's Tastes of Honey:The Making of Shelagh Deaney and a Cultural Revolution.

Excellent bioography of SD.

 

[Napster]

Couldnt continue Lee Child's Exit Music, a load of old tosh
Couldnt continue Spalding Gray's Impossible Vacation - pretentious nonsense

So reading Marathon Man - which was later made into a film by its author.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck.

 

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Just finished David Hare's Beat the Devil:A Covid Monologue.Frightening.

 

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Currently reading Nick Hornby's excellent Just like You.Clever twist in the tale about halfway through.

 

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Just started Gabreil Pogrund and Patrick Maguire's Left Out.The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Couldnt continue Lee Child's Exit Music, a load of old tosh
Couldnt continue Spalding Gray's Impossible Vacation - pretentious nonsense

So reading Marathon Man - which was later made into a film by its author.

Didn`t know Lee Child wrote a book called Exit Music - though Ian Rankin has!!!!

 

[blues exile]

Just started Gabreil Pogrund and Patrick Maguire's Left Out.The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn.

Just started reading this as well. Only 50 pages or so but surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of JC so far.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started reading this as well. Only 50 pages or so but surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of JC so far.

yeah my impression too.

 

[Napster]

Didn`t know Lee Child wrote a book called Exit Music - though Ian Rankin has!!!!

Ah yes, Past Tense was its name, terrible book