what book are you reading ?

A Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England
Britains DNA
King in the North
I have downloaded the Gutenburgs project of free books. They are mainly out of print but I enjoy them
 
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It's very good. The TL/DR version is that our education system is very inefficient at inculcating real understanding and useful skills, but moderately effective as a 'sorting hat', selecting for a combination of cognitive ability, conscientiousness and conformity. It does this in an exceptionally wasteful way. Caplan is an economics professor at George Mason University but, although plenty of research is referenced, he writes in a concise and amusing style for the lay reader.
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Education was far better in my dads day , hes 79 next week .
The main things that matter in life were better back the food and education.
 
A customer of mine worked with some politician , he was eventually assasinated .

Hes actually wrote a book on him but changing the names . Its on amazon. I checked him out at the time and it all checked out correct , wish i could remember his name.

It all sounded very mafia like , actually now i think it it might of been mongolia .

That’s him :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjaasürengiin_Zorig
 
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I've started to read Sebastian Horsley's memoir 'Dandy In the Underworld' for a second time.

It is the work of a wretched, dissolute reprobate, written with elegance and a flourish. Whether it is a memoir - where the reality ends and fabrication starts - who is to say? It's veracity is absolutely irrelevant.

It is, needless to be said, wonderful.
 
Waroness_Barsi said:
I've started to read Sebastian Horsley's memoir 'Dandy In the Underworld' for a second time.

It is the work of a wretched, dissolute reprobate, written with elegance and a flourish. Whether it is a memoir - where the reality ends and fabrication starts - who is to say? It's veracity is absolutely irrelevant.

It is, needless to be said, wonderful.
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You should give that 'writing' a go Barsi, you have a way with words (y)
 
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Ive finished the Ian Dury book - the bloke was unbelievable - sex mad !.

his lyrics made listening to the record much clearer.

about to open the dust cover of 'the country life collectors pocket book' - G. Bernard Hughes - its a 1963 first edition - found it in a charity shop for £1 - chapters on Ceramics, Silver, Glass, Furniture, stamps and makers marks + a bit more on tin, pewter, maps & coins.
 
You've reminded me to get back into the Granta books of short stories/travel,from different areas,featuring different authors.William Trevor features in the Irish Short Story one. They offer a great smorgasbord of talent which you might otherwise miss.
 
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I’ve just started Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. It’s very like Normal People (her second book which the bbc have filmed and are showing later next month) but I do like the way she uses the interior voice of the characters.
I’m going to give that Ian Dury book a read after this as it sounds fab.
 
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