[ebooktalk] Fwd: CURRENTLY ON THE GO
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:02:24 +0100
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> From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: CURRENTLY ON THE GO
> Date: 17 April 2013 20:11:16 GMT+01:00
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> Thanks to Dave Russell - we've known each other since before the release of
> the first Led Zep album - for inviting me to join this select list. By way
> of intro, just thought I'd let you know what I'm currently reading in case it
> sets any rabbits off. As usual I've got caught up in more than one book.
>
> First, an antidote to today's overkill, I'm reading tony Benn's diaries 1980
> to 1990. Like many political diarists he's a little too self-important, even
> self-obsessed sometimes, but there's also enough backroom gossip and detail
> to keep it interesting. And it gives a very individual perspective on the
> history of my own lifetime.
>
> On TB I've just finished a rather disappointing crime novel set in the peak
> district the title of which has deserted me remarkably quickly but it's
> about a bunch of people who, as kids were involved in one of their number's
> obsession with Ancient Egypt. My suspicion is that the author, Nina
> Templeton (I think) is American as she used several times the phrase "Fit to
> be tied" which I don't think very often escapes the lips of your average
> Derbyshire copper.
>
> Lastly, and I suspect this will send some of you running for the trees, I
> recently started The 3rd book in George R R Martin's Song Of Ice And fire
> sequence. I was persuaded to give this a go by a former work colleague and
> also my Australian physio. While it can undoubtedly be justly described as a
> load of hooey, once you get into it, if you can, the plot, the characters,
> the invention and the pace of the writing does carry you along.
>
> And if that's not enough, waiting in the wings on the Kindle is Shift, the
> prequel to Hugh Howwie's recent best-seller wool, and a biog of Nina Simone
> on TB.
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