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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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
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe’s Waterloo It’s been a long-standing habit of mine to read at least one Bernard Cornwell book
Based on real events, Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada is an initially slow-moving book about one German man’s resistance
If I’d watched Black Mirror: Bandersnatch before I wrote Ramble No. 68, then I would’ve put it in the list
This year I read around 65 books. In this post I pick out a few of the best ones. Every
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By the time we read about Jack Reacher in Never Go Back his broken nose is pretty much mended and
I’ve been spending most of my spare time working on a talk I’m doing with the local Rotary Club on
Anyone who’s followed this blog for a while will know that I like to read at least one Bernard Cornwell