Stephen's Notebook

Finished reading: The Sound of Being Human by Jude Rogers 📚

Dropping everything to read : The Sound of Being Human by Jude Rogers. I’ve had this on order for a while. 📚

Currently reading: The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary 📚

Finished reading: The Looking Glass War by John Le Carré. It took two attempts to read this gloomy installment of John Le Carré’s espionage series but the ending was quietly devastating.

Finished reading: Maskerade by Terry Pratchett 📚

Currently reading: Manhattan transfer by John Dos Passos 📚

Carter, tears of terror mingling with make-up and the rain, squeezed the accordion. There was the long-drawn-out chord that by law must precede all folk music to give bystanders time to get away.

Another Terry Pratchett gem from Lords and Ladies. 💬

I’m already a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to Kindle books so £0.99 for Neil Gaiman’s American Gods quartet was an easy purchase.

When it comes to great big works of fiction it’s Kindle all the way for me.

📚 The Lark Ascending - The Music Of The British Landscape by Richard King. Enjoying this. There’s some good stuff about the “blood and soil” type fascists that tried to organise in Britain between the Wars. I’m always suspicious of those that talk about an idyllic pastoral past.

Currently reading: These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems 1955-1993 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 📚

Someone mentioned the nancy comic strip a while back and I became a big fan. It’s nice to have this new collection of them.