5 more books for a rainy day
Louis Theroux – Gotta Get Theroux This / Homer – The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles / Stephen King – If It Bleeds / J. R. R. Tolkien – Unfinished Tales / Lee Child – Blue Moon
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Holiday Books 2019
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe’s Waterloo It’s been a long-standing habit of mine to read at least one Bernard Cornwell book
Alone in Berlin and Coin Locker Babies
Based on real events, Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada is an initially slow-moving book about one German man’s resistance
Bandersnatch, Peaky Blinders and books
If I’d watched Black Mirror: Bandersnatch before I wrote Ramble No. 68, then I would’ve put it in the list
2018 Retrospective – top reading
This year I read around 65 books. In this post I pick out a few of the best ones. Every
Seals, Pigs, Ants, Wasp and Dragon
Since my last ramble I’ve been to a work Christmas do involving a self-indulgent DJ who held a minute’s silence
David O’Doherty, Bohemian Rhapsody & Tom Allen
This week has been full of highlights for me, starting with the marvellous Halloween special episode of Inside No. 9. We
Lee Child – Never Go Back
By the time we read about Jack Reacher in Never Go Back his broken nose is pretty much mended and
Lady Bird, Fireflies and a finale
I’ve been spending most of my spare time working on a talk I’m doing with the local Rotary Club on
Holiday Books 2018
Anyone who’s followed this blog for a while will know that I like to read at least one Bernard Cornwell
