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Post by don on Jan 21, 2024 19:47:09 GMT
Just started Judges List by John Grisham
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Post by dorsetmike on Jan 21, 2024 22:59:55 GMT
Still going through Anne McCaffery titles on Kindle
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Post by aitch on Jan 27, 2024 16:45:58 GMT
Composing Himself by Harry Shapiro. Authorised biography of Jack Bruce. I'm up to his teenage years. So far, he has lived in Glasgow, emigrated to Canada, moved back and, meanwhile, learned to play the harmonica, cello and a bit of piano.
Oh, and I found my book tokens the other day. So today had a stroll down to Waterstones for a copy of Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes. Looking forward to that - she writes well and is always interesting.
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Post by skyehammer on Jan 27, 2024 18:30:49 GMT
Last book / books I bought were The Passenger and Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
The last book that was bought for me was Paul Lynch's Prophet Song .
Started reading Prophet Song when the electricity went out a few weeks back in a storm - not picked it up since , can't seem to concentrate .
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Post by aitch on Feb 6, 2024 18:47:06 GMT
Latest book purchase arrived today...  Not a book I will read from cover to cover, but one I will, no doubt, dip into too regularly for the good of my waist-line...  |
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Post by Kath on Feb 6, 2024 18:51:13 GMT
Poems. The Road, Slowly by Liz Quirke. Beautiful.
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Post by don on Feb 13, 2024 0:22:54 GMT
Call me Red : a shepherds journey  |
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Post by Kath on Feb 27, 2024 21:26:28 GMT
premonitions-bureau by Kath Polley, on Flickr The Premonitions Bureau. True story. Picked it up in a charity shop because I thought it was a novel. Made for vaguely interesting reading but the review in the Guardian tells you almost everything you need to know and only took two minutes to read. Mind you I'm struggling to remember what the 'doozy of a plot twist' was and I only finished it two nights ago! (I was interested because I've had three premonitions in my life. I dreamed about an aeroplane catching fire, not being able to take off properly and crashing two days before that's what happened to Concorde in France. I had a dream about a massive wall of water the day before the Boxing Day tsunami. And I was terrified flying to America because as I drove away from saying cheerio to my parents I was hit by the knowledge that I wouldln't see my dad again. I thought it was because our plane was going to crash. It ended up being him that died of a heart attack a week later. Most of the dreams I remember are just ridiculous and I have no idea why, when those three things happened, there havent' been more. I had no premonition about the terrorist attacks in Paris when I was right there, or of Putin's activities or anythign else. Makes no sense. I"m pleased not to have them though. Very disturbing.) |
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Post by don on Mar 14, 2024 14:34:56 GMT
I started reading a Wilbur Smith novel but gave up. The last one I read was twenty five years ago and I gave up on that one as well. I know he’s sold millions of copies of his books but I don’t seem to be able to enjoy them.
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Post by aitch on Mar 14, 2024 15:51:21 GMT
Started on Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes. What have I learned so far? Don't take on the Muses - you'll lose and suffer an imaginatively unpleasant fate.
Oh, and Hera had a dodgy childhood.
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Post by spinno on Mar 14, 2024 18:41:36 GMT
Started on Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes. What have I learned so far? Don't take on the Muses - you'll lose and suffer an imaginatively unpleasant fate.
Oh, and Hera had a dodgy childhood.
Was she brung up by Prince Andrew? |
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Post by aitch on Mar 14, 2024 20:06:41 GMT
Started on Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes. What have I learned so far? Don't take on the Muses - you'll lose and suffer an imaginatively unpleasant fate.
Oh, and Hera had a dodgy childhood.
Was she brung up by Prince Andrew? Well she was vomited up by her father Cronos - he had a tendency to eat his children soon after birth. |
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Post by spinno on Mar 14, 2024 20:08:15 GMT
Was she brung up by Prince Andrew? Well she was vomited up by her father Cronos - he had a tendency to eat his children soon after birth. That I remember from listening to Stephen Fry's Mythos |
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Post by Kath on Mar 15, 2024 9:00:14 GMT
Buddha Da, by Anne Donovan. Glaswegian husband/father/painter/decorator goes Buddhist and the inevitable fallout. Written as it would be spoken by someone from Glasgow. Really enjoying it.
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Post by John Farrell on Mar 15, 2024 18:25:02 GMT
Assorted technical articles on the repair of Kiev and Contax cameras.
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