Animo
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That's the one
What are you reading
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That's the one
dicko
Legendary Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis a truly wonderful story I read it at least once a year.
Elybazza61
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Last books were Slash's autobiography(a proper romp!),
The Gospel of The Hold Steady (Thought I'd better finally read it after seeing them at the weekend)
Currently Monty Don's My Garden World(mostly about the wildlife in or near his garden) .
Currently have these to get through;
Pete Townsend-Who I Am
Tracy Thorn- Bedsit Disco Queen
John Robb-Do You Believe In The Power Of Rock & Roll
Mortimer and Whitehouse-Gone Fishing
Albert Jack-The Old Dog and Duck (about where pub names originated)
Frances Pryor-The Fens (think that will be a next winter read)
Plus Ian Dury and Phil Lynott bios.
Will keep me going for a bit which is why I passed on a Black Sabbath bio today in a charity shop.
The Gospel of The Hold Steady (Thought I'd better finally read it after seeing them at the weekend)
Currently Monty Don's My Garden World(mostly about the wildlife in or near his garden) .
Currently have these to get through;
Pete Townsend-Who I Am
Tracy Thorn- Bedsit Disco Queen
John Robb-Do You Believe In The Power Of Rock & Roll
Mortimer and Whitehouse-Gone Fishing
Albert Jack-The Old Dog and Duck (about where pub names originated)
Frances Pryor-The Fens (think that will be a next winter read)
Plus Ian Dury and Phil Lynott bios.
Will keep me going for a bit which is why I passed on a Black Sabbath bio today in a charity shop.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Earth Abides, George R. Stewart.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Saturday 28th
I found this book, on a shelf at work
(will put a donation in, next week, when the tin is accessible)
John Haigh grew up in Outwood (Wakefield)
The house was quite close to where one of my grandfathers lived, but not at the same time
Haigh attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QuEGS) & was a choirboy at Wakefield Cathedral!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Haigh
I found this book, on a shelf at work
(will put a donation in, next week, when the tin is accessible)
John Haigh grew up in Outwood (Wakefield)
The house was quite close to where one of my grandfathers lived, but not at the same time
Haigh attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QuEGS) & was a choirboy at Wakefield Cathedral!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Haigh
dicko
Legendary Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
The 39 Steps, haven’t read this since I was at school in the ‘50s
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
The 39 Steps is an organisation of spies, collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of... aaaagh
Sorry I have to say that every time I hear of the 39 steps.
Is Mr Memory in the book or does he only appear in the film?
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Sunday 29th
This is going back to Pontefract Library tomorrow
It’s one of a simply marvellous series
This volume has almost 850 pages!
The ‘area’ map
This is going back to Pontefract Library tomorrow
It’s one of a simply marvellous series
This volume has almost 850 pages!
The ‘area’ map
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Reynard
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It was one of the books we read at school - think it was the second or third year of senior school. Funnily enough, I picked up a copy at the book exchange in the village so that I could re-visit it.
It's currently on the "to read" stack. But first, need to finish "Lost Fleet" - am currently on book four of six. If anyone likes military sci fi, then I can highly recommend. The books are by John Campbell (J Hemery).
My O Level reading was Diary of a Nobody ~ George and Weedon Grossmith with Romeo and Juliet as the Shakespeare 'Classic'.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Oh yes, we read that one too! IIRC it was set in the Holloway area of North London (near where I grew up) and I can remember that the main character's two friends were called Cummings and Goings.
Read Romeo and Juliet too. As well as Macbeth (I was Macbeth in our year's production of the play), Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream. Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. Mind you, it was a public school, so literature lessons were on the poncy side.
That said, it ignited my love of Shakespeare, and I've read much of his works and seen most of the plays off of my own bat. Titus Andronicus is *really* disturbing, though. I wonder what he was smoking when he wrote that one...
AndyRM
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- North Shields
Oh yes, we read that one too! IIRC it was set in the Holloway area of North London (near where I grew up) and I can remember that the main character's two friends were called Cummings and Goings.
Read Romeo and Juliet too. As well as Macbeth (I was Macbeth in our year's production of the play), Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream. Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. Mind you, it was a public school, so literature lessons were on the poncy side.
That said, it ignited my love of Shakespeare, and I've read much of his works and seen most of the plays off of my own bat. Titus Andronicus is *really* disturbing, though. I wonder what he was smoking when he wrote that one...
An English teacher of mine reckoned he intended it as a parody, which I always thought made a lot of sense.
