Books
Finished Reading: Mike Joyce - The Drums by Mike Joyce. A nice little memoir of Joyce’s time in The Smiths. He doesn’t dwell on court cases or royalty disputes or anything like that. Just the sheer joy of being in one of the greatest bands.📚
Read: In Another World - The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk by Graeme Thomson. A fantastic book that makes you listen to and hear the Talk Talk albums in a different light. The best kind of music book.📚
Read: All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook. I felt like taking a shower after reading this before immediately reading it again. It’s a horribly good read. 📚
Started to read: NONESUCH. by Francis Spufford. This is my fourth or fifth book by this author and every one has been written in a totally different genre. 📚
Finished reading: The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin 📚
Read: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. This book was so good I want to read it again. 📚
Read: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner 📚
Read: The Short End of the Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig. Loved this one. Another great recommendation from the Backlisted/Locklisted podcast. 📚
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“The Gentrification of Vimes”.
This is so good. Contains spoilers for the City Watch books by Terry Pratchett but I imagine anyone interested will have already read those. Sam Vimes has always been my favourite Pratchett character.
Started to read: The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. by Peter Ames Carlin. I’ve been looking forward to getting this. I ended up buying the ebook for my Kobo as it hasn’t been easy to find a hard copy in the UK. 📚
Two more to add to the pile…
Started to read: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford 📚