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[Minnie the Minx]

Just finished - ‘Death Comes For The Archbishop’ by Willa Cather. What an extraordinary book. Absolutely extraordinary.

Also just finished ‘O Pioneer’ by the same author. Another gem.
You can smell the land she writes about.

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Also just finished ‘O Pioneer’ by the same author. Another gem.
You can smell the land she writes about.

Note to self: Must odor a copy.

[Corporate whore]

Genius.
Its not so much a book, as like being sat in a pub talking to JCC.

Or rather, being talked at by JCC.

So like going to the pub with a scouse version of Brotherlouie.


But funnier, obvs.

[Minnie the Minx]

Genius.
Its not so much a book, as like being sat in a pub talking to JCC.

Or rather, being talked at by JCC.

So like going to the pub with a scouse version of Brotherlouie.


But funnier, obvs.

That’s got to go on my list.

Last night I finished reading Willa Cather’s ‘My Antonia’ and like with all of her other books, was so sad to have finished. What a work of total joy. Some authors drag you into their works, some entice you, Willa skips with you through her stories. You feel like you’re on an adventure with her characters together. One of my favourite discoveries of the year.

[mission]

John Cooper Clarke is a genuine throwback and quite the amalgam of contradictions.

[Deebank]

Scouse!?

Isn’t he from Salford?

[Six String]

Stiff by Mary Roach, the curious lifves of human cadavers. I read Gulp, her book on the alimentary canal years ago and really enjoyed it. She’s a science writer so all of her books are from that angle and she’s very funny and informative.

[Minnie the Minx]

Stiff by Mary Roach, the curious lifves of human cadavers. I read Gulp, her book on the alimentary canal years ago and really enjoyed it. She’s a science writer so all of her books are from that angle and she’s very funny and informative.

On the back of that, I got a couple of her books to read and as presents!

I’m reading ‘Do No Harm’ by neurosurgeon Dr Henry Marsh. It is very well written and moving in places but his self confessed grumpiness is irritating as a reader who can imagine having to work with him. He is rude and stand offish to so many people who are essential to the work of the hospital and he describes it in a way that I think he hopes makes the reader think of him as a churlish but lovable medic but I’d like to slap his legs.

[mentalist (slight return)]

Just whipped through this. It's a wonderfully written story of Nick Cave's life up until early 1980, when The Boys Next Door (soon to become The Birthday Party) boarded a plane to try their chances in London. It's a great evocation of Wangaratta and Melbourne, particularly the music scene that grew out of the Crystal Ballroom in St Kilda, as well as the fascinating relationships between Nick and various band members and girlfriends and family; and the myriad influences that drove him.

[Snarfyguy]

Quite lively and engaging.

[Minnie the Minx]

The New Yorker has been really knocking it out of the park recently. I read a splendid article by Rachel Kushner called ‘The Hard Crowd’ yesterday, detailing her young life in San Francisco. A personal history, it took you up and down the steep streets with some real love and made me long to be back in what to me is the greatest city on earth.

[Tom Waits For No One]

Having a re-read of this



The joy of record shop browsing/idling/buying...a distant memory

[Jimbo]

Sorry for the blow up. But so far this is a pretty good sea yarn. Kind of a who dun it British navy style. The author knows his stuff - or just enough to keep me interested.