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Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
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the music lesson, a spiritual search for growth through music
It gets a bit more involving, don't think it ever really becomes a page turner, but still very enjoyable. For me it's really one of the books that demonstrates page-turning-ness isn't a requirement to being enjoyable. Dead Souls (Gogol) is another.
Wallander on the other hand, a while since I read one, but have occasionally ended up reading until 5am to get them finished. Running low on remaining books too.
Last one I read:
Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time To Keep Silence. One of his shortest, about two separate stays in monasteries. Exudes a quiet peacefulness, together with dashes of his knowledge of history.
Currently:
A North Light - John Hewitt's memoir. Ulster's most famous poet before Seamus Heaney, he was also deputy director of the Ulster Museum, and it's an interesting insight into artistic and cultural life in NI during the middle of the 20th C.
Next:
Probably another PLF, The Broken Road. But I've also started the first few pages of Laurie Lee's A Rose For Winter.
I was left in two minds about that one; on one hand it's a compelling account of how the HA came to be and how their creed developed, on the other hand it's quite self-glorifying and very 'American' (his conviction that every American should own a pump-action shotgun 'for home defense'). Apparently Barger's mellowed a bit since, but the book as a whole does leave me slightly uneasy.
Anyway, I've just finished GoT up to book 5, daren't start the sixth one whilst I've got work piled up so picked away at a couple of histories of WW2 (one called 'The Storm of War' which is the size of a breezeblock, the other 'A Short History' by Norman Stone, which does what it says on the tin).
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
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Also just read the Joseph Wambaugh Hollowood series.
Donald Fagen's Elegant Hipsters - dipping into now and again
Now halfway through Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series - #1 The Black Echo
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Lee Child ( that the right way round?) was on Radio 2 this week, he is an Aston Villa fan and apparently uses Villa player's names for characters in his book. He has also written in fan's names. That seemed quite cool. Slightly tempted to try one of the books.