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Post 8421

Emily...overly fond of the ellipsis...and top ten lists...submit yours @ A87824361...

Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod

...this is after reading (in the time it took to have a bath) Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon.

...my creativity must be hiding somewhere!


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Post 8422

Mol - on the new tablet

Ended up re-reading Jane Austen (not Patrick O'Brian) on holiday. Didn't have nearly as much reading time as I expected so only managed Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and the first half of Emma.

But a good way to get myself used to a Kindle.

Mol


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Post 8423

Sho - employed again!

so, will you be getting one for yourself? (which model Kindle were you using?)

Reading the Camomile Lawn. It is not as full of debauched sex as my mum led me to believe.


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Post 8424

Mol - on the new tablet

No, I'm happy with DH's outgrown Kindle. Good way of taking books to work for my lunchtime read or when travelling. But won't stop me buying actual paper Pratchett or Girls Gone By, which are the only new books I buy.

I read The Camomile Lawn years ago. Is it worth picking up again?

Mol


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Post 8425

Sho - employed again!

not really... it's not a bad story I suppose (I'm half-way through it). It's that particular type of story that seems to blend with other similar ones. I can't put my finger on it right now.


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Post 8426

Mol - on the new tablet

Actually I might just have watched it on TV smiley - blush But I that was over 20 years ago and thought I read it too, possibly on the back of the TV version.

Mol


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Post 8427

Bagpuss

The Brentford Triangle by Robert Rankin. This is the second in the Brentford Trilogy (currently there are nine in the trilogy, outdoing HHGTTG) after The Antipope which I read and enjoyed.


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Post 8428

Pastey

Finally back on track reading The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. Currently on The Wolves of Calla.

I wasn't sure about this one when I first read it, but am enjoying it more this time.


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Post 8429

Bagpuss

The Naked God by Peter F Hamilton.

I'm sure Leeds libraries have a policy of storing the separate volumes in trilogies in far apart places so as to rake in the reservation fees. The second book had to be retrieved from Armley nick for me.


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Post 8430

Cheerful Dragon

Started World Without End by Ken Follett. At over 1200 pages, I'm not sure I'll finish it before we go on holiday. smiley - erm


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Post 8431

Cheerful Dragon

Well, I've finished World Without End and I've got a week to go till the holiday. The TV adaptation was OK, but the book was far more satisfying in a lot of ways. (Books usually are, but not always.)

I'm reading The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens van der Post.


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Post 8432

Sho - employed again!

smiley - book train reading: The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz

smiley - book bedtime reading: Happy Family by David Saffir (don't be put off by the title, it's a humorous German novel about a family who are turned into a Frankenstein's monster thing, a vampire, a mummy and a warewolf by Baba Yaga.)

smiley - book betweentimes reading: Introducing Marx. Rius. A graphic guide.


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Post 8433

pedro

I f***kin' HATE that Marx book, it's flipping RUBBISH! 'Marx' by Andrew Collier is much better.

Much, much better.


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Post 8434

pedro

And exhale...


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Post 8435

Sho - employed again!

I think it's cute. smiley - tongueout


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Post 8436

egon

"I Am Zlatan" by the Swedish footballer Zlatan ibrahimović. An utterly scintillating memoir of an outsider finding his way in European football


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Post 8437

Sho - employed again!

is that something you can recommend? it sounds interesting - but sounding interesting and being a good read are often two different hings


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Post 8438

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

Never a big fan of mysteries in the past I have just discovered the
Spanish writer Manuel Vazquez Montalban (translated by Ed Emery).
"The Angst Ridden Executive" (1977) is one of a series starring an
American style hardboiled detective, Pepe Calvalho. The reviews say
"..he does for Barcelona what Chandler did for Los Angeles".

A bit quirky, Pepe uses books as kindling, not as a fascist book-burner
but as a sort of spiritualistic/philosophical ritual. He is also inclined to
roast a duck in the middle of the night when he can't sleep and the text
conveniently includes a full description of his recipes. His knowledge
of wines is also quite impressive in a James Bond kinda way.

Montalban died in 2003 but he captured the 1970s in a way that will
please the Boomers and prove a delight to future cultural historians.
The sex is chauvinistic and the anti-social attitudes are spot on.

smiley - cheers
~jwf~


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Post 8439

Pastey

I've almost finished Dark Tower now, and, er, want to read it from the beginning again. smiley - erm


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Post 8440

Cheerful Dragon

I'm back from my hols (actually, I got back last Tuesday, but it's taken me till now to get back to 'normal'smiley - erm). I did a fair bit of reading, more than I expected to do given only a few days at sea doing nothing. I spent so much time reading my Kindle that I'm giving it a rest and concentrating on tree-books. Well, that and my OU course books.

Currently reading Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox. Jane was Anne and Mary's sister-in-law, and the book's secondary title describes her as 'The Infamous Lady Rochford'. I'm looking forward to finding out why. My bedtime/bathroom book is The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian.


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