Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.When I saw this in the WE (about 10 years or so ago now) with Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron I thought it was one of the best plays I'd ever seen.Sadly it doesn't work so well on the printed page.Remember thinking then they should film it for posterity.Hope they will (or livestream it at least) when the play's revived before the summer.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Stephen Cowell's historical novel Broome Park.Extremely well-researched and very good on Kitchener's concentration camps in the Boer War and the early Suffragette movement.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Ian Rankin's Hide and Seek .Early Rebus (number 2 I think).Must say I prefer the JR who listens to the Stones & Jackie Leven (rather than the Beatles White album,Jazz and radio 3 as here) but otherwise its the same excellent IR. You really can't beat him for plot or Edinburgh description.

 

[Napster]

Ian Rankin's Hide and Seek .Early Rebus (number 2 I think).Must say I prefer the JR who listens to the Stones & Jackie Leven (rather than the Beatles White album,Jazz and radio 3 as here) but otherwise its the same excellent IR. You really can't beat him for plot or Edinburgh description.

Just got the Dark Remains which was part-written by William McIlvanney before he died and Rankin finished it. Having lived in Edinburgh myself it is very true to the city. Although Irvine Welsh was probably more accurate…

 

[MK Shrimper]

I'm reading Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and enjoying it very very much.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just got the Dark Remains which was part-written by William McIlvanney before he died and Rankin finished it. Having lived in Edinburgh myself it is very true to the city. Although Irvine Welsh was probably more accurate…

Rankin finished it from Mcllaveny's plot outline IRRC.Anyway it's a good read though set in Glasgow like WM 's other novels.Irvine Welsh (who I also like) while certainly writing about the "Athens of the North" is rather different to IR.Seem to remember you saying you'd lived up there.Personally I've just visited a couple of times.Nice place with quite an underside!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm reading Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and enjoying it very very much.

Ha! Seem to remember Rob Noxious reading that some time ago when we were visiting Pamplona.Like Hardy.

 

[LCBB72]

'The Child' , by Max China cant put it down , great read and a great author .

 

[OldBlueLady]

Just downloaded The Thursday Murder Club to read while on my holibobs.

 

[Rob Noxious]

I'm fifty pages into 'Maledictus', the debut novel by Phil Burdett, the Westcliff-based musician and poet. It's unlike anything I've read previously due to Phil's unconventional style. He's able to conjure great imagery and I love the reflections in his musings, e.g. " "& sometimes when drowsily walking through the new town's peripheral woodland a certain mad purpose would grip his heart - a sense that perhaps there is a reason to fix these pretty hours in memory - because one day they will be useful as well as decorative, serving as a temporary balm to an inconsolable misery as yet mysterious & distant - the streets, shops, churches, all whispering of their mortality, of their passive surrender to change"

Only 490 pages to go.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm fifty pages into 'Maledictus', the debut novel by Phil Burdett, the Westcliff-based musician and poet. It's unlike anything I've read previously due to Phil's unconventional style. He's able to conjure great imagery and I love the reflections in his musings, e.g. " "& sometimes when drowsily walking through the new town's peripheral woodland a certain mad purpose would grip his heart - a sense that perhaps there is a reason to fix these pretty hours in memory - because one day they will be useful as well as decorative, serving as a temporary balm to an inconsolable misery as yet mysterious & distant - the streets, shops, churches, all whispering of their mortality, of their passive surrender to change"

Only 490 pages to go.

You can't get this on Amazon.You might want to tell PB so he can sort it.

 

[Rob Noxious]

You can't get this on Amazon.You might want to tell PB so he can sort it.

I'm guessing not everyone goes through them. As you probably know, it's available here: -> https://philburdett.com/campaigns/737448

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I'm guessing not everyone goes through them. As you probably know, it's available here: -> https://philburdett.com/campaigns/737448

Cheers.I'd forgotten about his O/S.

 

[The Big Dady]

Barnet v Southend United​

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

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Barnet v Southend United​

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[Tangled up in Blue]

Julian Barnes :Elizabeth Finch.Quite liked parts 1 & 3 (which could be described as rather conventional JB.Not Part 2 which was religous philosophy.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo.Harrowing but beautifuly written.Every bit as good as his first novel last year's Shuggie Bain.

 

[LCBB72]

Just finished Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo.Harrowing but beautifuly written.Every bit as good as his first novel last year's Shuggie Bain..

Have always liked Mungos 'In The Summer Time .

 

[Napster]

The Thursday Murder Club was a disposable and accessible read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Have always liked Mungos 'In The Summer Time .

Think that was Mungo Jerry. Agree it was a good record though.