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*What book are you reading? (part 2)

What kind of book is this? Just gonna have a look see if i can find it x

it is a collection of letters that the mitford sisters sent to each other during their lives. Edited by charlotte mosley (granddaughter of diana mitford)
very interesting and well worth reading (it's not a small book!)

Pennimania - loving your "mitford wallow" :cool:
 
it is a collection of letters that the mitford sisters sent to each other during their lives. Edited by charlotte mosley (granddaughter of diana mitford)
very interesting and well worth reading (it's not a small book!)

Pennimania - loving your "mitford wallow" :cool:


I literally lost days of my life reading those letters.
Have now skim read Decca's Hons and Rebels - will read it properly later - I nearly always read things like that -often reread a book I like several times.

Have got Love in a Cold Climate to guzzle at too...:D
 
Just finished Revolutionary Road and I loved it was a tad depressing there at the end but I love a bit of misery.
Don't know what to read next. Might read Madame Bovary again actually, I was thinking about it the other day which is as good as any other reason
 
The Story of the Pogues by Carol Clerk

cheers NVP :cool:

It's good, but it's verging on being a hagiography in places tbh.

Finished this yesterday and it turned out a lot better than I first thought

Bit surprising, in that I realised I had seen them 4 times, and not the vague 3 I had in mind - recognised the dates :D Also realised that I did actually buy Hell's Ditch, even after hating over half of Peace and Love and not being particulary enamoured of the other half

Sad though...
 
Glad you enjoyed it. There was a lot of stuff in it I didn't know about (the slpits, mainly).

I only heard Hells Ditch for the first time a few weeks back due to reading that book. It's surprisingly not all that bad, considering. There's maybe three songs on it that are really pretty good, the rest's filler.
 
Glad you enjoyed it. There was a lot of stuff in it I didn't know about (the slpits, mainly).

I only heard Hells Ditch for the first time a few weeks back due to reading that book. It's surprisingly not all that bad, considering. There's maybe three songs on it that are really pretty good, the rest's filler.

Yeh, the Cait thing - at the time, it was like she'd just disappeared. Now we know that she did just actually disappear :D Thought there was an awful lot of animosity towards her though in the book - not sure it was called for.

Agree re Hell's Ditch - but even those few were shite compared to the first 3 albums. I'd completely forgotten about Poguetry in Motion as well, which I have on vinyl.

They didn't mention the big troughs they had on one tour, collecting for the Birmingham Six. A LOT of money was put in those troughs - and no one touched it :cool:

I also remember being under the impression at the time that Joe Strummer was only standing in for Shane on vocals (the last time I saw them, actually), and that Shane would be back. When he didn't come back, I just didn't bother with them anymore.
 
Capt Blood - Sabatini

This isn't quite what I expected, in the sense that (allowing for a few specific markers) it is actually well written, very well paced, and thoroughly entertaining.

:)
 
Got a good haul from the YM shop yesterday, so have pretty much consumed Jane Grigson's Book of Vegetables, which is great. Published in 1978, so she cooks with lard most of the time :cool:, although does say 'but you could use olive oil if you want' :D there's loads of cracking recipes in it though, that I want to try out

Also started The Accidental, by Ali Smith last night. Hmmm...time will tell whether it's a great big heap of pretentious twaddle, or really quite good. I'm leaning towards the former at the moment though.
 
just finished 'money' by martin amis (pretty good...) and just started 'bridge of sighs' by richard russo. both 'empire falls' and 'straight man' were excellent so hopefully this'll be as good.
 
Just finished 'Bad Vibes' by Luke Haines. Really funny book full of collossal bitchiness and massive slaggings-off of almost everybody involved in Britpop. Very enjoyable - his 'everything I did was ace, everything everyone else did was shit' approach is one I admire. :D Particularly as The Auteurs, his band, were pretty dismal as I recall. There's a great three sentence slating of 'Be Here Now' by Oasis that ends with him admitting he's never even heard it. And, yet, he's still right. :D Very funny book.

Just about to start 'Destination Morgue' by James Ellroy.
 
'Love in a Cold Climate' Nancy Mitford.

Absolutely hilarious. If you can get over the fact it's about the upper classes ( ripping the shit out of them) - it's a fantastic read.

The dialogue and gameplaying between 2 young sisters is particularly funny and well observed.
 
Just finished Christy Campbell's Mini: An Intimate Biography which, despite its rubbish title, is actually rather good.

Now reading Geoffrey Elliott, The Mystery of Overend and Gurney, about the financial crash of the mid-1860s which started with the collapse of Overend Gurney & Co. It was the last run on a British bank until Northern Rock. The book is ... well, it's alright.
 
'Love in a Cold Climate' Nancy Mitford.

Absolutely hilarious. If you can get over the fact it's about the upper classes ( ripping the shit out of them) - it's a fantastic read.

The dialogue and gameplaying between 2 young sisters is particularly funny and well observed.

i'll put it on my mitford list! :D
 
Just got back from 2 week holiday, only chance I really get to read a lot of books at the moment.

Colombine - Proper in-depth and fascinating account of the events leading up to, during and after the shootings (or more accurately, failed bombings). Excellent, if a little depressing at times.

Altered Carbon - Bought as a few on here had mentioned it, really enjoyed it and want to read a few more Morgan books now. Which is the next book to read with Kovacs in?

Debt of Honour, Executive Orders and Without Remorse - Bit of a Tom Clancy splurge, all good thrillers (if a little wank-heavy on the military detail), the politics side of things was spot on and the events quite prescient given all 3 were written well before 9/11.

Seven Troop (Andy McNab) - Interesting, particularly his accounts of the PTSD his unit suffered from, but light on anything else of substance.
 
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