What are we all reading?

Just ordered "I wanna be yours " John Cooper Clarke and "A life in football " John Sitton.
Is Mel Small still on here ? Will there be another Holmes book ?
 
Just ordered "I wanna be yours " John Cooper Clarke and "A life in football " John Sitton.
Is Mel Small still on here ? Will there be another Holmes book ?
I wanna be yours is excellent, quite an eye opener as to how he lived, even when moderately famous/successful.

I'm making my way (slowly) through "The Man with the Golden Arm" by Nelson Algren. Enjoying it but the Chicago street-talk of the 50s was fairly impenetrable at first.
 
About to start the Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
Change of plan as Mrs Flash didn’t bring it back from the Canaríes with us. So ‘Black Gold‘ by Jeremy Paxman. Basically the history of coal, which hasn’t really been documented in a proper way, and how it enabled us to have an industrial empire, which enabled us to make the machines that we could use to make the wars etc.

or as George Orwell said “The machines that keep us alive, and the machines that make machines, are all directly or indirectly dependent upon coal. In the metabolism of the western world the coal miner is second only to the man who ploughs the soil. He is a sort of caryatid upon whose shoulders nearly everything that is not grimy is supported.

The owld feller was a coal miner and I’m excited to read it.
 
Alan Clark Diaries 82 - 90, in power.
I'd forgotten what an odious, misogynistic, homophobic racist he was, and thats on a good day,
Very interesting to see his take on the whole inside the Tory party, and I doubt they will have changed.
He also had one of the largest private collections of nazi memorabilia in the country. In his castle.
 
Just Ignore Him - autobiography from Alan Davies, was recommended to me. Very moving recollection of a 6 year old growing up after his mother's death with a seriously 'unpleasant' father and disjointed siblings. Halfway through so no spoilers please.
 
Having read Max Porter's Lanny, I went back to his first book, Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, which I went through in a couple of days. It's a very short but beautifully written story of a bereaved father of two boys and their journey through the process and out the other side.
 
Thought I'd revive this thread. Am most of the way through Lemn Sissay's 'My Name Is Why'. The horrific story of his childhood/adolescence as an African child in the UK so-called 'care' system. A very accessible read but emotionally quite tough. He's angry, and with plenty of reasons to be so.

What's everyone else reading?
 
I’ve just started this

Karan Tejwani-
Glorious Reinvention: The Rebirth of Ajax Amsterdam

It’s had really good reviews I’m enjoying it so far.

Interesting that in my version Marc overmars is no longer on the front cover in the montage.
 
Change of plan as Mrs Flash didn’t bring it back from the Canaríes with us. So ‘Black Gold‘ by Jeremy Paxman. Basically the history of coal, which hasn’t really been documented in a proper way, and how it enabled us to have an industrial empire, which enabled us to make the machines that we could use to make the wars etc.

or as George Orwell said “The machines that keep us alive, and the machines that make machines, are all directly or indirectly dependent upon coal. In the metabolism of the western world the coal miner is second only to the man who ploughs the soil. He is a sort of caryatid upon whose shoulders nearly everything that is not grimy is supported.

The owld feller was a coal miner and I’m excited to read it.
Bloody Orwell, surely if the coalminer was a he. He'd be a sort of Atlantes, not a caryatid. Fukn amateur. :)

Dislosure: I had to look caryatid up. Orwell was far more professional and clever than I am. The internet allowed me to be a smartarse even though I have nowt to back it up with.
 
Bloody Orwell, surely if the coalminer was a he. He'd be a sort of Atlantes, not a caryatid. Fukn amateur. :)

Dislosure: I had to look caryatid up. Orwell was far more professional and clever than I am. The internet allowed me to be a smartarse even though I have nowt to back it up with.
Since you Googled it and now ’know’ you can now back up your smartarseness though.
 
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