Need to get back to 'through it all I've always laughed' count arthur strong, had me in stiches!
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Need to get back to 'through it all I've always laughed' count arthur strong, had me in stiches!
Just ordered a copy of 'No Country For Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy. Having previously enjoyed the film very much a couple of times, I thought I'd check the book out.
its a good film, but not read the book; in fact I didnt even know there was one.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. It's the first time I'm reading one of his books. I'm liking it so far.
'Noriko Smiling', by Adam Mars-Jones, which is an extended essay on Ozu's Late Spring [1949], published by Notting Hill Editions in 2011. Appallingly written - the author must have been/is a journalist.
Have just finished re-reading 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins (a cracking good read) and Volume 4 of the Diaries of Virginia Woolf. Am about to start 'The Oval Window' by J H Prynne.
Just pre-ordered Tomblands, the latest Matthew Shardlake novel by C J Sansom. It's not out until October but I enjoyed the previous books so much I don't mind the wait. Very detailed and historically accurate murder mysteries set in Tudor England.
Not been reading of late. Not enough time when your doing nowt
Running a Hotel on the Roof of the World by Alec Le Sueur (ISBN 1 84024 106 3)
"Le Sueur provides us with the means of improving our knowledge of a far away country about which we know little. Fawlty Towers goes to Tibet"
A very funny read about managing the Holiday Inn hotel in Lhasa, Tibet in the late '80s. Interestingly enough, I stayed there around the time written about in the book.
Now
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (ISBN 978 1 84354 7471)
If you are a fan of 'The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series (which I am) you will like this. Again simple, gentle, amusing and perceptive observations of the customers of the cakemaker and of society in general in Kigali, Rwanda.