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I've only read one Ian McEwan book, On Chesil Beach, donkey's years ago, and I'm afraid I didn't see what all the fuss was about, but the premise of this one looks interesting, and it's short at least. @bookstodon

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I saw this dreadful neologism in Oxfam Islington. @bookstodon

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@glc @bookstodon Why not call it 'fance'?

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@whybird @bookstodon 😳

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Just finished that Hendrix book. Intriguing how people who die unexpectedly sometimes do have death on their mind immediately before. Is it coincidence? There's no indication his death was anything other than misadventure, but do people perhaps get more, wrong word but still, careless in such moments? His career was at a crossroads, similar but also differently to say, Ian Curtis. What would he have become? His music was possibly heading out of fashion. Glam and producer-led teeny pop was around the corner. Bowie was the new superstar. How would he have adapted? Some of his later writings namechecked Wagner and Strauss. The possibilities are tantalising. The waste of talent is what remains, though. @bookstodon

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@keefeglise @bookstodon There's a sentence where he says he wants to get his head down and study music theory and composition. He clearly had big visions. Whether he could've achieved them though...

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Just finished another short novel that Benjamin Zephaniah wrote for teenagers. Read two so far. They give an insight into young people's lives for an old sod like me, but more than that, they're just really well constructed, and sensitively and subtlely written. It's not a genre that attracts due credit, but the man excelled in it, clearly. 📖 @bookstodon

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Finally finished The Great Game, which was superb. Moving onto something lighter. This writer is more my older brothers' age than me, so I may not know about the earlier stuff directly, but will have heard about it from them no doubt. 📖 @bookstodon

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@bookstodon Book is OK so far, if a bit '70s cliché bingo', and it helps he was a boyhood Evertonian. 📖

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Still reading The Great Game, and a meeting between Younghusband and Gromchevsky, mortal enemies getting slashed and talking world politics on a mountain in the middle of nowhere, thinking this should be a two-handed play. Absolutely electrifying. @bookstodon 📖

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This paragraph though. 😳📖 @bookstodon

Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby of the Royal Horse Guards was no ordinary officer. For a start he was a man of prodigious strength and stature. Standing six-foot-four in his stockinged feet, weighing fifteen stone, and possessing a forty-seven-inch chest, he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army. Indeed, it was even said that he could carry a small pony under his arm. Another Herculean feat of Burnaby's was to grasp the tip of a billiard cue between his middle and index fingers, and hold it out horizontally, his arm fully extended and the butt end steady.
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    Just went to The Bookshop on the Heath, which was a location not once but twice for separate episodes of Spooks. Bought this, seeing it's all the rage... 😏📚📖 @bookstodon

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    Book review for 2024 is Steve Silberman's Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. A helpful and informative book on the unfolding journey of and...battles with/for, regarding people who interact with their world differently. I found this book to be helpful in understanding the rise of what we today call neurodiversity. ☕☕☕☕1/2 review. @stevesilberman @books @bookstodon @bookstodon #

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    @jimkane57 @stevesilberman @books @bookstodon @bookstodon I really enjoyed this one, and learned a lot too.

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