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Sep 29, 2024 - 7:50 AM
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Graham Watt
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I was "out of" (the habit) for a while, but now back with as much totthless vengeance as I can muster. So, over the last month or two -
"The Complete Peter Cook" - Most all of his writings, from "Beyond the Fringe", "Pete n' Dud", "Private Eye" right up to... well, the last thing he wrote. I liked this. It's funny but it's appropriately tragi-comedy.
"The Hidden Ways" by Alastair Moffat - "Scotland's Forgotten Roads" is what it's about. A great read, Moffat walking - or trying to - "all" (some of) the roads in Scotland tramped by Roman armies, pilgrims, drovers... sometimes he just has to guess where the road was. Motorways and housing schemes have made it a challenge.
"Our Fathers" by Andrew O'Hagan - You can take the boy out of Scotland... "I have scarecly read so silvery beautiful a style when it comes to Scots landscape, nor one so tender when it comes to matters of life and death." (Candia McWilliam, Financial Times). "Magnificent nightmare of a novel." (Graham Watt, Film Score Monthly).
"The Last Train to Zona Verde" by Paul Theroux - This is the one where, at the age of 70, he tries to walk it-bus it-train it from Cape Town to Angola. Angola just about defeats him. I love Theroux's books, and this is as bloody brilliant as anything he's done.
Currently halfway through Nabokov's "Lolita". One of the billions of "classics" I never had the time (more likely the inclination) to read. The thing that's surprising me the most is how very funny it is. Not all the time of course.
After that's done, next up is Jimmy Joyce's "Dubliners".
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COVID did a number on my reading, as I mostly read while commuting to and from work, and I worked from home for quite a while. Now that we are going back into the office a couple of days a week, I am back to reading again. I just finished this book, which I was inspired to read when Gary S. posted about it on this very thread. Sadly, Gary hasn't posted here in a long time.
Fun book. A mash-up of steampunk, urban fantasy and a touch of Sherlock Holmes. This is the first of a trilogy, and I enjoyed it enough that I plan to read the later volumes.
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A book about the 1986 assassination of Sweden's prime minister Olof Palme.
Coming up: Autobiographies of backing singer Tessa Niles and musician Robbie Robertson, plus a book about pop artists with a christian faith.
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