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To the Baltic with Bob - Griff Rhys Jones
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[Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?
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Beach Hut
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Itchy Feet - Gary Mobsby
- Oct 12, 2022
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English Pastoral - James Rebanks
Our terrible choice between treating our land responsibly and respectfully and worsening our food security by a significant factor, or carrying on down a road that destroys biodiversity, and leaves us entirely reliant on US agri-chemical suppliers to keep pumping more into the soil to keep it fertile, with the predictable effect on our rivers and wildlife. The lad’s a farmer, so this isn’t a hippy take on the issue, it is however a human heart and mind compressed into a couple of hundred pages.
I recommend wholeheartedly and without reservation.
Our terrible choice between treating our land responsibly and respectfully and worsening our food security by a significant factor, or carrying on down a road that destroys biodiversity, and leaves us entirely reliant on US agri-chemical suppliers to keep pumping more into the soil to keep it fertile, with the predictable effect on our rivers and wildlife. The lad’s a farmer, so this isn’t a hippy take on the issue, it is however a human heart and mind compressed into a couple of hundred pages.
I recommend wholeheartedly and without reservation.
Colonel Mustard
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- Jun 18, 2023
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Ultra-Processed People, recommended by someone on NSC a few days ago. It's interesting, if a bit sciencey for me.
North of Robertsbridge
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La Rosa de Fuego - El Obrerismo Barcelonés de 1899 a 1909, Joaquín Romero-Maura (Alianza Universidad, 1974)
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Walking the Himalayas - Levison Wood
About to tuck into Heat 2
Sequel to Heat. Well, prequel and sequel. Spans before and after the events of the 90’s film, Heat.
Having just finished Driven. The sequel to Drive. I’m into extended stories at the moment.
Sequel to Heat. Well, prequel and sequel. Spans before and after the events of the 90’s film, Heat.
Having just finished Driven. The sequel to Drive. I’m into extended stories at the moment.
Just finished House of Silk (Anthony Horowitz). This is an attempt to add to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon.
I enjoyed it greatly. The rhythm of the originals is there. The language is slightly less prissy/pedantic than ACD's style, and I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. Holmes seems a bit less enigmatic and more kindly, which is also something I'm not quite sure about. I'm sufficiently naive to not realize what the Great Theme was till it was revealed; or maybe I did but was happy to suspend my disbelief.
I have his 'Moriarty'up next. Will enjoy the sun on my patio and make a start, I think.
I also bought his three James Bond books. I have read a couple of 'other author' Bond books, including one in which he'd given up the fags and the womanizing (License renewed, 1981 - just looked it up - don't bother!). I hope Horowitz has had the good sense to stick with the facts. Based on 'House of Silk' I suspect he has. In which case I may be in for a treat.....
I enjoyed it greatly. The rhythm of the originals is there. The language is slightly less prissy/pedantic than ACD's style, and I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. Holmes seems a bit less enigmatic and more kindly, which is also something I'm not quite sure about. I'm sufficiently naive to not realize what the Great Theme was till it was revealed; or maybe I did but was happy to suspend my disbelief.
I have his 'Moriarty'up next. Will enjoy the sun on my patio and make a start, I think.
I also bought his three James Bond books. I have read a couple of 'other author' Bond books, including one in which he'd given up the fags and the womanizing (License renewed, 1981 - just looked it up - don't bother!). I hope Horowitz has had the good sense to stick with the facts. Based on 'House of Silk' I suspect he has. In which case I may be in for a treat.....
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
The 18th edition wiring regulations boring as shite and wouldn’t recommend.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Through the Embers of Chaos (Balkan Journeys) - Dervla Murphy
rebel51
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Power of now. Eckhart tolle
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Two Degrees West - Nicolas Crane
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
The Matarese Countdown by Robert Ludlum.
This sequel to the brilliant Matarese Circle is, I accept, rather dated, but Ludlum was a brilliant writer of this sort of book
This sequel to the brilliant Matarese Circle is, I accept, rather dated, but Ludlum was a brilliant writer of this sort of book