O/T Fit You Reading 3

[57vintage]

I'm reading a hoor of a lot since I kicked capitalism in the erse, and I'll be looking at this when the reading Himalaya sinks a bit:

https://booksfromscotland.com/2020/0...in-the-making/ Soul and jazz soundtrack frpm the boy too.

I recently picked up on Anthony Cartwright, and his Iron Towns is a fitba novel set in the post-Thatcher West Midlands Rust Belt, with flashbacks to the 1964 European Cup final, THAT Panenka penalty v West Germany in 76, Zizou's tribute to it in 2006, and Pirlo doing likewise I'm nae sure when. I got it on eBay for next to nothing.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30127626-iron-towns

[The Red Max]

I'm reading the How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? by recently deceased (RIP) Aberdonian Marxist historian Neil Davidson. A great read from a great man and along with Bob Cooney belying the perception that we're all inbred, cap doffing reactionaries up here.

[57vintage]

With bookshops ‘non-essential retail’, a non-Amazon fix is possible here. Good discounts, which is very handy on new titles, and Hive gives support to independent local bookshops.

http://newsletters.hive.co.uk/q/13YrTciGQPDYcy2nGBoMh/wv

Currently reading the sublime The Duchess Of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff’s follow-up to 84 Charing Cross Road, the best collection of letters I’ve read in a long long time (Proper Mannies’ paperback), and Mike Brearley On Cricket (e-book).

[The Red Max]

I'm reading Eric Hobsbawm's essays on Latin America 'Viva la Revolucion', Julian Cope's Head On / Repossessed, The Groucho Marx Letters and Volker Kutscher's 'Marlow'.

[57vintage]

From Brearley's chapter on commentators:

"In October 2007, nominated by Doug Insole to succeed him, I became President of the MCC for a year. One of the pleasant duties of the role is to invite speakers to monthly dinners for members during the winter. My first two speakers were Matthew Engel and Vic Marks. I should have liked to take credit for this being a statement of political intent (to start with Marx and Engels), or if not intent, ironical provocation, but if so the credit is to my unconscious only."

Proper Mannies' writin.

[Aldo1983]

The Terror by Dan Simmons. Highly recommended. Check it out book bugs.

[mondo_notion]

The Terror by Dan Simmons. Highly recommended. Check it out book bugs.

Is it one of them with a few pages of pictures in the middle? I don't read anything with no pictures.

[Mason89]

The Terror by Dan Simmons. Highly recommended. Check it out book bugs.

What’s it about?

[Aldo1983]

What’s it about?

Cheese rolling.

[Donanddusted]

The Poor Had No Lawyers was very enlightening for me.

[Aldo1983]

The Poor Had No Lawyers was very enlightening for me.

If I wait till it's made into a high quality tv drama in several years time; will you cast it up that I didn't read it?

[Mason89]

The Poor Had No Lawyers was very enlightening for me.

Any cheese in it?

[Donanddusted]

If I wait till it's made into a high quality tv drama in several years time; will you cast it up that I didn't read it?

Only if you're dyslexic.

[Donanddusted]

Any cheese in it?

No but quite a few crackers.

[Aldo1983]

Only if you're dyslexic.

So you'd let it go if I couldn't be arsed but would cast it up if I had some condition? Sick ****.