What are you reading tonight?
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I enjoy reading fairy story.
I love FASHION BOOTS MOST.
Fantasy is the destination. Logic is the journey.
Fantasy is the destination. Logic is the journey.
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is that the one with the three bears? and are you suggesting there was a fourth???hisroyalgingerness wrote:Love that book.General Mannerheim wrote:Just read the chapter 'Lunch with Bethany' in American Psycho.
Ouch - poor Bethany!
Am about to finish "From Russia With Love" and will then make a start on the Red Riding Quadrilogy I got for Xmas
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Just before Christmas i finally finished Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, which has lingered on the Shelf of Shame for about ten years.
It is dense, poetic, lyrical, emotionally powerful, sad and, in the end, places its hope -as ever - in the redemptive power of love to overcome the pain, barbartity and cruelty of a lifetime's journey - in this case, for her central character, who is a Polish Jew who, at the age of six, loses, in a Nazi atrocity, his parents and, closest of all, his sister Bella who haunts him throughout a long life.
It is a very tough and very beautiful book, that i kept laying down until i found spaces in my life to give it the concentration it really requires. You have to like 'literary' fiction to stay with this - but I know that I'll read it again - maybe ten years on. But it is now shifted from the shelf of shame!
Next up - Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. But not tonight. Tonight I'm at the Reebok. COYW!!!
It is dense, poetic, lyrical, emotionally powerful, sad and, in the end, places its hope -as ever - in the redemptive power of love to overcome the pain, barbartity and cruelty of a lifetime's journey - in this case, for her central character, who is a Polish Jew who, at the age of six, loses, in a Nazi atrocity, his parents and, closest of all, his sister Bella who haunts him throughout a long life.
It is a very tough and very beautiful book, that i kept laying down until i found spaces in my life to give it the concentration it really requires. You have to like 'literary' fiction to stay with this - but I know that I'll read it again - maybe ten years on. But it is now shifted from the shelf of shame!
Next up - Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. But not tonight. Tonight I'm at the Reebok. COYW!!!
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I only have to watch his football to know that he is a poetry-free zone...thebish wrote:...reading Gary Megson's programme notes? ...dense, poetic, lyrical, emotionally powerful, sad and, in the end, places its hope -as ever - in blind luck!William the White wrote:
Next up - Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. But not tonight. Tonight I'm at the Reebok. COYW!!!
bought the missus "Story of the Scene: The Inside Scoop on Famous Moments in Film" by Roger Clarke - which "takes a famous movie moment - such as the Singin' in the Rain dance sequence, the Alien eruption scene or the 'you talkin' to me?' Taxi Driver sequence - and tells the unique story of the circumstances of its creation."
anyway - browsed it myself...
did you know... the famous motorbike scene at the end of the Great Escape - Steve McQueen was just too good a motorcyclist for the "Germans" even to keep up - so for parts of the scene he was actually the pursuer rather than the pursued...
anyway - browsed it myself...
did you know... the famous motorbike scene at the end of the Great Escape - Steve McQueen was just too good a motorcyclist for the "Germans" even to keep up - so for parts of the scene he was actually the pursuer rather than the pursued...
jimbo wrote:Took some of the Christmas books on holiday with me. Steig Larsson's 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' was fantastic. The other one I took was 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre which turned out to be an interesting piece little light revision for the holidays! Both worth a look!
good stuff -am waiting for the third to appear in paperback
bad science -also a great read!
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Jesus Christ - Bethany had it pretty easy compared to poor Torri & Tiffany!!!hisroyalgingerness wrote:Love that book.General Mannerheim wrote:Just read the chapter 'Lunch with Bethany' in American Psycho.
Ouch - poor Bethany!
Am about to finish "From Russia With Love" and will then make a start on the Red Riding Quadrilogy I got for Xmas
never thought it possible to squirm so much at just words!
\\bought a copy of 'when saturday comes' for my train journey yesterday.
Never read it before, though I'll probably end up getting every copy from now on. Absolutely brilliant read from cover to cover.
Never read it before, though I'll probably end up getting every copy from now on. Absolutely brilliant read from cover to cover.
"Young people, nowadays, imagine money is everything."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
I heard the Larsson trilogy recommended somewhere on the radio so decided to give it a go and am glad I did. I ordered the second one off amazon today along with a couple of text books. I wonder which of those will get read first!?thebish wrote:jimbo wrote:Took some of the Christmas books on holiday with me. Steig Larsson's 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' was fantastic. The other one I took was 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre which turned out to be an interesting piece little light revision for the holidays! Both worth a look!
good stuff -am waiting for the third to appear in paperback
bad science -also a great read!
Also, 'The Road' has been mentioned on here loads and like many I loved it. Noticed the film is out next week. Anyone planning on seeing it? Think I'll wait a while and see what sort of reception it gets............
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I've been a subscriber for quite a long while.Verbal wrote:\\bought a copy of 'when saturday comes' for my train journey yesterday.
Never read it before, though I'll probably end up getting every copy from now on. Absolutely brilliant read from cover to cover.
Several on this forum have written for it... I'm one, others can id if they wish...
Nearest thing we have to a national voice for supporters...
Can anyone write for it? Is it like a comment is free or something? Quite like to have a go at that...William the White wrote:I've been a subscriber for quite a long while.Verbal wrote:\\bought a copy of 'when saturday comes' for my train journey yesterday.
Never read it before, though I'll probably end up getting every copy from now on. Absolutely brilliant read from cover to cover.
Several on this forum have written for it... I'm one, others can id if they wish...
Nearest thing we have to a national voice for supporters...
"Young people, nowadays, imagine money is everything."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
"Yes, and when they grow older they know it."
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In view of Mr Coyle's arrival at the club I thought I'd best do a bit of revision of the language of the Scots. So I've pulled down from my shelves my copy of John Buchan's Witch Wood which is full of wonderful Scot talk. The problem is that the book, being printed of course, gives no real indication of pronunciation and I suspect that I'm wasting my time. I've had a quick shufti to see if there's a Scottish/English dictionary available in my neck of the woods - one with a glossary of terms would be handy - but to no avail.
Perhaps I'd be better typing out stereotypical managerial comments and finding some willing Scot to translate them, phonetically, for me?
Perhaps I'd be better typing out stereotypical managerial comments and finding some willing Scot to translate them, phonetically, for me?
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