Question What are you reading?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Nora Krug's Heimat ( =Homeland).:A German Family Album.An interesting account of a German/American's woman's research into her family history.Apparently her granfather joned Hitler's S,S. in the 30`s.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Pablo Viera's excellent "Society of the Snow".A powerful & moving book as is the film.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

Just started reading Neil Harman's "All my own words".

A nice start, lots of Shrimper stuff in it as that's where he cut his journalistic teeth.

Like his writing style too, a dry wit with no exclamation marks.

Had been waiting for it to come out in paperback but Neil says that won't happen so I splashed out on a discounted hardback on Amazon.

Neil has suffered from poor health recently due to a stroke but is now on the slow road back to recovery. He can't drive at the mo which prevented him coming to the SUEPA Spud event last week.

Anyone else read his book yet? Suggest it's worth a try based on what I've read so far.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Just started reading Neil Harman's "All my own words".

A nice start, lots of Shrimper stuff in it as that's where he cut his journalistic teeth.

Like his writing style too, a dry wit with no exclamation marks.

Had been waiting for it to come out in paperback but Neil says that won't happen so I splashed out on a discounted hardback on Amazon.

Neil has suffered from poor health recently due to a stroke but is now on the slow road back to recovery. He can't drive at the mo which prevented him coming to the SUEPA Spud event last week.

Anyone else read his book yet? Suggest it's worth a try based on what I've read so far.

Thanks for this steer, Andy - I hadn't heard of it before.

 

[B.B.The Legend Lives On.]

Reading books these days is something I rarely do as I am certainly more of a stats man myself, but I was recently loaned a book when purchasing a new custom made binder for my Keegan programme collection.
Try this:- "BLUE WAS THE COLOUR", A Tale of Tarnished Love by Andy Hamilton. Funny, very witty with a sense of sadness thrown in. I feel sure you won't be disappointed.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong .A moving WW!!story;Easy to see why it's never been filmed-too mjany tunnels! Pity, ihere's even a chapter set in SOS.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

No t long finished Clinton Heylin's The Double life of Bob Dylan:A Restless .Hungry Feeling (1941-!966).Would have thought most Dylan fans knew He wasn't exactly a stand up guy-especially in his younger days.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Volume 3 of Michael Posner's superb Leonard Cohen -Untold Stories : That's How the Light Gets In.An oral biography.Think my favourite comment was by one of the interviewees who said that Cohen appealed to her heart and Dylan to her head".He was certainly a great soul.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Vol. 2 of Clinton's Heylin's Th e Double Life of Bob Dylan ":!966-2021 Far Away From Myself"..Rather got the impression from the last chapter that Heylin would have been greaful if his Bobness had passed by now (presumably so he wouldn' have had to write a Vol.·3! As somone who saw Dylan last year on his Rough & Rowdy Ways tour personally I'm glad that he's still around.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Zadie Smith's The Fraud. Much prefer her autobiographical novels like White teeth & NW.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

I'm currently reading a fantastic book which was lent to me called 'Battle for The Valley' which was published some time ago.

Anyway, one bit early on in it made me chuckle, where the author is giving some background to Charlton Athletic's financial woes of the past. In it he quotes from some club minutes which list one of many creditors being the company who supplied the club typewriter at a cost of £23. He then notes that the firm must have had to reclaim the purchase as the next minutes were handwritten!

I'm seeing Tom next week, he might like that story.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Tom Balwin's Keir Starmer :The BIography.Anyone on the left reading this love-in of a book, hoping to pick up some clues as to who to vote for in the next GE will be disappointed.

 

[rshepp]

Just finished Tom Balwin's Keir Starmer :The BIography.Anyone on the left reading this love-in of a book, hoping to pick up some clues as to who to vote for in the next GE will be disappointed.

 

[rshepp]

Finished a great book yesterday.
Anthony Beaver's Stalingrad.
Dreadful situation in terrible conditions. Millions died in the snow. Germany lost their entire 6th army.
Now have a true 1740s war ship. The Wager. Off to war with Spain down to Brazil. There is a tale not yet sorted out.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Finished Salman Rushdie's Knife a couple of days ago.It's a wonderful account of an horrific attack.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Finished Tim Burrow's excellent The Invention Of Essex:The Making of an English County earlier .This was the book that was mentioned in the Grauniad's The Long Read article about SUFC recently.

 

[Rob Noxious]

I finished Southend writer Daryl Easlea's comprehensive tome about Slade today, i.e. 'Whatever Happened To Slade?' - it is very well-researched and a good read for fans of the band. With thanks to Tangled Up In Blue for putting it my way last year.

 

[Ted]

Starting reading The $100 start up.

Turn the grand old age of 30 soon and despite working in a decent job, the more time passes the more I realise I can’t see myself working for somebody else my whole life.

Never read books until a year or so back. Hoping it’s the start of something.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just finished Paul Auster's Oracle Night.Probably the start of magical realism.RIP.

 

[LukeK1989]

Recently finished Atomic Habits by James Clear.