O/T Fit You Reading 3

[TheDeeDon]

I can?t remember which way chronologically Brooklyn and Long Island are set, but both are Colm at his very best. I?ve just begun his The Magician, am still working my way through David Hepworth?s A Fabulous Creation, and have dipped a toe into Anthony Quinn?s latest The Mouthless Dead. I had a mini-crisis with the audiobook of Sarah Moss?s The Tidal Zone when my monthly 15 hours of Spotify credit ran out, less than 10 minutes from the end. The IT sorcerer that is former TRF stalwart Basin City somehow found me the last three chapters as an audio file to my delight. I?d recommend anything by Ms Moss.

Now over to Sean for the weekend weather.

Just finished The Magician by Colm Toibin.

Wow, what a book.

I re-read The Master by him too and doesn't come as close to the Magician.

In my opinion The Master doesn't keep you quite as hooked as The Magician and the story doesn't flow as well

I have struggled with finding good stuff to read this past month, but The Magician was just what I needed.

[57vintage]

Currently listening to Sarah Moss's latest "Ripeness". About 85% through it. The ending's going to be interesting.

Reading Louise Welsh's To The Dogs where a well-respected vice-principal at Glasgow University falls in with the bad boys of the criminal fraternity when his loon dabbles too deep in the smack-vending scene (Library Borrow Box e-book)

Reading in actual factual proper mannies' paperback Edwin Muir's Poor Tom. It's in a quadrology of "west of Scotland" novels alongside JF Hendrie's Fernie Brae, Gordon M Williams's From Scenes Like These, and Tom Gallacher's Apprentice.

It was the third-named of the authors who attracted me to it. He wrote the original yarn (The Siege of Trencher's Farm) on which the still-controversial Straw Dogs was based, and the 1970s Hazel cop series co-written with Terry Venables.

[TheDeeDon]

Have the Fire part of the John Boyle books. I honestly can't read the pages quick enough, which isn't great for a book with only 160 pages. No dip in quality from the previous two I have read in the series.
I'm awaiting the final part of this series of books (Air) to enter the Library, but I was able to reserve it, so hopefully not too long.

Finally got the final part at the weekend. Got an email from the Library to say it was ready for collection and had to pick it up by the 7th and didn't return from holiday until the 9th. A begging email was sent to the Library and although not the done thing, they agreed to keep it for me until the Saturday. Public institutions at their finest.

The quality of the final book didn't slip from the previous three books in the series and tied it all up nicely.

Currenty reading a book about the author Nevil Shute, an author whose work I really like. Although not so well known now, he was a very prolific and successful author between 1940 and 1960.

A decent, but uneventful read.

[57vintage]

It?s very unusual for me to abandon a book, but the well-regarded Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, 1932) is something I couldn?t get into at all.

Struggling a bit too with Colm Toibin?s The Magician, an imagined biog of German writer Thomas Mann.

John Patrick McHugh?s Fun and Games (Spotify audiobook) is entertaining though. Irish adolescent, ?fitba? (Irish version with handling the ball poovery) and riding obsessed late **** about to go to college, dealing with issues, not least, with the fact that his ma?s bit on the side has circulated online a photie of her paps which the whole town is discussing.

[TheDeeDon]

It?s very unusual for me to abandon a book, but the well-regarded Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons, 1932) is something I couldn?t get into at all.

Struggling a bit too with Colm Toibin?s The Magician, an imagined biog of German writer Thomas Mann.

If your not enjoying a book I find it's best to leave it. So much good stuff to read and not enough time to read it all.

[57vintage]

My inbox tells me that the four ?elements? yarns by our pal John Boyne is due for publication as a single volume.

I like the tidy, compendium nature of that, but the slow, measured release of the four parts, where the inter-connections were unexpected jolts to the system, won?t be replicated for those who read it as a single narrative. The months of separation as the publisher slow-released them allowed them to be treated as discrete stories until, for example, the feisty Irish woman revealed that she was a trainee pilot and that her dad was a right crunt.

The way Boyne tied it all together, with each volume still able to stand alone, is utter ****ing genius.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FCXJMY...3dbd247&nodl=1

[57vintage]

I binge-listened to Nicholls’s You Are Here during frequent public transport outings recently. I’ve read a good portion of his back catalogue ana. A terrific writer.

This is in today’s Scotsman, but seems to have been franchised from the i paper or website. Great recommendations.

https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/fi...uRYSUjAqVkVytm

[TheDeeDon]

My inbox tells me that the four ?elements? yarns by our pal John Boyne is due for publication as a single volume.

I like the tidy, compendium nature of that, but the slow, measured release of the four parts, where the inter-connections were unexpected jolts to the system, won?t be replicated for those who read it as a single narrative. The months of separation as the publisher slow-released them allowed them to be treated as discrete stories until, for example, the feisty Irish woman revealed that she was a trainee pilot and that her dad was a right crunt.

The way Boyne tied it all together, with each volume still able to stand alone, is utter ****ing genius.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FCXJMY...3dbd247&nodl=1

When I finished Air last week, I closed the book and thought that these four books are going to be released together at some point.

At least in a single volume you won't have a gype like me reading the second part first.
Whilst I don't think it spoiled my enjoyment of it in any way, going 2,1,3 & 4. And which proves they can be enjoyed as individual books, it would be a great book to read all the way through from start to finish.

[TheDeeDon]

I binge-listened to Nicholls?s You Are Here during frequent public transport outings recently. I?ve read a good portion of his back catalogue ana. A terrific writer.

This is in today?s Scotsman, but seems to have been franchised from the i paper or website. Great recommendations.

https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/fi...uRYSUjAqVkVytm

I've read Nicholls works. I think Starter for Ten was his first one and the film version isn't bad either.

I've never read any Shakespeare, maybe I should try him at some point.

I have a copy of Far From The Madding Crowd in my bookshelf, with a bookmark in it around half way through. I can't quite remember why it was left unfinished, as I don't mind Hardy as a writer.

[57vintage]

I typed out a lengthy reply TDD min, and when I tried to post it, Sibo the Ctnu had timed it out.

What a fcuking dick.