[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

[jakarta]

Adventures on the High Teas - Stuart Maconie. An investigation into 'Middle England' is basically what it is about but as usual Maconie rambles hither and thither.

Some of it is hilarious, some of it isn't, it is all interesting however.

 

[daneferrari]

"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 

[Jello Biafra]

Rodham. Hillary Clinton fictionalised account of her life.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Never Will I Die by Toby Gutteridge

24 year old SBS soldier shot through the neck in Afghanistan and rendered quadriplegic. Inspirational autobiography.

 

[amexer]

Mao. The Unknown Story. . Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. What a man. For what he did to his own people as bad as Hitler

 

[Surf's Up]

I'm revisiting "Our Game" by John Le Carré and also just starting 'The Children of Men", the end of the world novel by, of all people, by PD James!!

 

[Surf's Up]

by by by!

 

[BBassic]

I've just started 'The Curse of the Mistwraith' by Janny Wurts. It's the first in an 11 volume epic fantasy so that'll keep me busy.

 

[Gwylan]

Berlin Exchange - Joseph Kanon. A cold war thriller, he's as good in this genre as Alan Furst is in pre-war and wartime Europe

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Scotland - The Story Of A Nation' by Magnus Magnusson. 700 pages. It's slow going. I've only got as far as page 63 and 1047 A.D. At this rate, I suspect I'll probably be reading it for the rest of my life. So... for some light relief I'm revisiting 'Alan Rough - My Story: The Rough And The Smooth'. It's a story full of thrills and spills. But mainly spills

 

[pearl]

'Scotland - The Story Of A Nation' by Magnus Magnusson. 700 pages. It's slow going. I've only got as far as page 63 and 1047 A.D. At this rate, I suspect I'll probably be reading it for the rest of my life. So... for some light relief I'm revisiting 'Alan Rough - My Story: The Rough And The Smooth'. It's a story full of thrills and spills. But mainly spills

I tried to read a similar book, but about Ireland. Ended up skimming thru' it and not actually retaining anything. Took up too much room on my shelf so it had to go.

 

[Beach Hut]

A Dead Hand - Paul Theroux

 

[Beach Hut]

A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Graham Coxon’s just released ‘Verse, Chorus, Monster!’
A tale of anxiety, loneliness, low self esteem, alcoholism, and a love letter to Blighty, boot fairs, Kent the ‘garden of England’ and vintage Triumph motorbikes.

 

[Don Quixote]

Shogun - James Clavell

 

[Lenny Rider]

Terry Venables The Art of Management.

Clearly in any autobiography there’s going to be a degree of poetic licence, but he’s clearly sailed very close to the wind.

Whoever appointed him to the England job, had clearly been out for lunch that day.

Euro 1996 all well and good, but given his alleged rap sheet and what had already gone on at Spurs surely there were better suited candidates around at the time?

Howard Kendall for starters.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Terry Venables The Art of Management.

Clearly in any autobiography there’s going to be a degree of poetic licence, but he’s clearly sailed very close to the wind.

Whoever appointed him to the England job, had clearly been out for lunch that day.

Euro 1996 all well and good, but given his alleged rap sheet and what had already gone on at Spurs surely there were better suited candidates around at the time?

Howard Kendall for starters.

And yet his England teams played some of the most exciting football I can recall from our national side. Mind you, some of the great players available to him helped a tad!

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

As for the book I’m currently reading, it’s Perfect Circle - The Story Of R.E.M. by Tony Fletcher.

Very insightful, particularly their early years and a band I knew very little about except for some classics in the late 80’s/early 90’s.

Fletcher also wrote a similar weighty tome about The Smiths, which is also a decent read.

 

[Poyningsgull]

We Want Falmer.
About a bunch of lunatics who managed to get a football stadium built in the middle of the South Downs.
What memories and we owe them all a great debt.
Fantastic memories.

 

[Fungus]

Peter Pan. Wendy has just been killed by one of the Lost Boys, aided and abetted by Tinkerbell. Not quite what I was expecting. 🫣