BOOKS! Will happily honk on (and on) about the classics, as well as contemporary, LGBTQ+, murder mystery, memoir, biography, and non-fiction genres.
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Last Notes npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy OK, Albert Entwistle, get the heck outta here; you were rottenly written, dreadfully dialogued, and utterly unbelievable. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Recommend to me your favourite books that have THE greatest plot twists! npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy OK, The PowerBook is the last of my unread Jeanette Winterson novels, so I'm going to read it & then I shall have the perfect excuse to buy MORE! Muah ha ha! npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I'm a day late in remembering the writer William Burroughs, b1914, d1997 on 2nd August at 83. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Back to Jeanette Winterson I go. This time it's Written on the Body (1992). According to the blurb on the back cover I am about to be taken "on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms". Which sounds quite nice for a cloudy Monday afternoon. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I'm so glad it appealed to you both! You're ahead of me already, I've yet to start it. Plan on opening it shortly. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy About to begin a most fascinating book: Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains by Helen Thompson. A non-fiction work about how wacky our grey matter can be. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Update on Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, which I'm almost done with (70pp left). npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy It's up, up and away with my new read, Five Weeks In a Balloon by Jules Verne, the first in a seven book box set (I'm reading my way through chronologically). npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Had a sudden yen to read Fanny & Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna. The blurb on the back says it's "The gripping story of the trial that shook Victorian England -- a tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and the invention of camp." Should be fascinating! npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Jules Verne has landed! 🚀 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Throwing myself a curveball, as I'm about to start reading William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin by Spike Milligan. Milligan is a supremely silly writer, and I feel that I need a big dollop of supremely silly right now. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I have an absolute and sudden craving to read everything by Jules Verne. 🌍 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Reading Jeanette Winterson's memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, and it's one of those books that impels you forward, mercilessly, in horror and fascination and empathy, and, I hope, eventually, joy, too. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Ten pages left of Howards End and EVERYTHING is happening, it's all utterly dramatic and I'm having a wonderful time. All it's really lacking is for Margaret Dumont to be fired out of a cannon at the denouement. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Ha! We read Of Mice and Men too. I enjoyed that one, but yes it was bleak. I always thought that school syllabuses should include the Sherlock Holmes stories; kids would adore studying those. That's the way to inspire kids to read more. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I wish we'd been assigned Forster or Woolf at school. We were lumped with Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) and Dickens (Hard Times), and both drove me mad, the latter especially. What a dirge! npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Book haul! I guess I'm on a Jeanette Winterson kick right now. I'll be starting her memoir as soon as I finish Howards End (which I'm halfway through and having a GLORIOUS time with). npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I found a copy of Forster's stories which includes it. The blurb says: "Forster, who deplored science fiction, wrote the story in response to an optimistic depiction of the future by H. G. Wells." Sounds interesting. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Oh I've heard of that, but not read it. I think I did look for it at one time, but couldn't find it in print. I'll have another forage. Thank you! npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy There's something about E.M. Forster's writing that makes me want to read him in the springtime. I read and enjoyed A Room With a View a few weeks ago, and am now about to start on Howards End, the last of the unread Forsters on my bookshelf. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy #CurrentlyReading npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Interesting article from The Guardian on where to start with Virginia Woolf, prompted by the 100th anniversary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway. The article unfortunately omits any mention of Orlando -- my favourite of Woolf's novels! That was where I started, and it blew my mind. npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Just finished reading Virginia Woolf's short story collection, and I stand by my earlier thought that Woolf's endings are too abrupt and anticlimactic. Left with a feeling of HUH? npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy #CurrentlyReading npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy Have been whizzing through books this past week! Now about to dive into The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf. If the stories are anywhere near as good as the font is massive (and it's startlingly massive), I'm in for a treat. 😅 npub1yg2gaflf8szxf07eh96evhvnp0mkjuqh3umpmk3x557u0g9x9fcs9evedv wordybirdy I rather enjoyed Birthday by Meredith Russo, it's a popular one I think, so you may have already read it/heard of it.
