What are you reading tonight?

[William the White]

at the moment I am mostly reading "Schopenhauer's Telescope" by Gerard Donovan.

I would heartily recommend it.

the blurb is as good a description as I could attempt..

In an unnamed European village, in the middle of a civil war, one man digs while another watches over him. Gradually, they begin to talk. Over the course of the afternoon, as the snow falls and truck-loads of villagers are corralled in the next field, we discover why they are there - not just who they are and how specific, sinister events in their country have led them to be separated by a deepening grave, but why the history of civilization is inseparable from the history of mass violence. Beautifully written, with a poet's eye for detail coupled with a chilling narrative drive, Gerard Donovan's first novel has been compared with Franz Kafka and Bernhard Schlink. SCHOPENHAUER'S TELESCOPE is current in the best sense - not merely about Bosnia or Kosovo, but in attempting to make art out of brutal life.

That sounds like one for me - like to swap with Mitchell's 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' when my wife has finished with it? Portuguese reading. Magnificent - eventually. Though, imho, not as good as either 'Cloud Atlas' or 'Ghostwritten'...

I have a policy of passing on books I like to people i think would like them... And, of course, i receive in return from others... You'll like this...

[thebish]

That sounds like one for me - like to swap with Mitchell's 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' when my wife has finished with it? Portuguese reading. Magnificent - eventually. Though, imho, not as good as either 'Cloud Atlas' or 'Ghostwritten'...

I have a policy of passing on books I like to people i think would like them... And, of course, i receive in return from others... You'll like this...

I'd be happy to swap - except this is a library book!

[William the White]

That sounds like one for me - like to swap with Mitchell's 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet' when my wife has finished with it? Portuguese reading. Magnificent - eventually. Though, imho, not as good as either 'Cloud Atlas' or 'Ghostwritten'...

I have a policy of passing on books I like to people i think would like them... And, of course, i receive in return from others... You'll like this...

I'd be happy to swap - except this is a library book!

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

I approve of not swapping in this case...

[Bruce Rioja]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

Your better proposal being?

[William the White]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

Your better proposal being?

You're invited... it's a public meeting... 7.00 pm... see you there...

[thebish]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

Your better proposal being?

You're invited... it's a public meeting... 7.00 pm... see you there...

[Lofthouse Lower]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

Your better proposal being?

You're invited... it's a public meeting... 7.00 pm... see you there...

Nice attitude

[Bruce Rioja]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

Your better proposal being?

You're invited... it's a public meeting... 7.00 pm... see you there...

I might just do that. For Bolton Council to be claiming that the document that they've sent out isn't "biased or misleading" is an insult to the people of the town. However, if we're funding libraries that aren't being used then it's down to Muhammad to haul his arse to the mountain.

Don't you get told off for speaking in Bolton Central Library by the way?

[thebish]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

Your better proposal being?

You're invited... it's a public meeting... 7.00 pm... see you there...

I might just do that. For Bolton Council to be claiming that the document that they've sent out isn't "biased or misleading" is an insult to the people of the town. However, if we're funding libraries that aren't being used then it's down to Muhammad to haul his arse to the mountain.

DAILY MAIL: Bolton council to fund exclusively Islamic jihadist fundamentalist suicide-bombers libraries scandal!

[Lord Kangana]

Prince Phillip implicated.

[thebish]

Prince Phillip implicated.

[thebish]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

so... how did it go?

[Verbal]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

so... how did it go?

They'd closed down the library before he could speak.

[hisroyalgingerness]

We don't need library's, the blue rinse brigade have discovered buying then selling on ebay's cheaper

[thebish]

We don't need library's, the blue rinse brigade have discovered buying then selling on ebay's cheaper

clearly not!!

[Lofthouse Lower]

[William the White]

I'm speaking at a public meeting in Bolton Central Library tomorrow against the council's proposed closure of six local libraries...

so... how did it go?

The meeting was fine. Only a few eccentrics and headbangers, thankfully. Mostly local people affected by the closures and reacting from tearful (a disabled teenage girl for whom the library was a refuge) to incandescent (several people). Next week sees the local councillors in debate in the final event of the 'consultation'. Bolton seems to be the only council in 'Greater Manchester' (yuk) prepared to close libraries. And the libraries they have chosen are from some of the most deprived areas. They've not picked out mine (and Bruce's) local library - too many articulate, middle class people to contend with. They've selected Highfield, Halliwell etc. Disgraceful, really.

[thebish]

The meeting was fine. Only a few eccentrics and headbangers, thankfully. Mostly local people affected by the closures and reacting from tearful (a disabled teenage girl for whom the library was a refuge) to incandescent (several people). Next week sees the local councillors in debate in the final event of the 'consultation'. Bolton seems to be the only council in 'Greater Manchester' (yuk) prepared to close libraries. And the libraries they have chosen are from some of the most deprived areas. They've not picked out mine (and Bruce's) local library - too many articulate, middle class people to contend with. They've selected Highfield, Halliwell etc. Disgraceful, really.

yeah - Bruce forgot about it!

[William the White]

We don't need library's, the blue rinse brigade have discovered buying then selling on ebay's cheaper

What does that mean? What is a 'blue rinse'? Really.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Pensioners.