Last Saturday it was Lou Reed playing Metal Machine Music in Cambridge, now Malmö Högskola Choir at Caroli Kyrka. I am not sure many people will have been able to say they heard and enjoyed both within seven days!
April 2010
Apr 25, 2010
Apr 20, 2010
108 Never had it so good?
Maybe I have just learnt that Harold Macmillan made his "Never had it so good" declaration to mark my arrival in the world, and that Margaret Thatcher's first speech in the Commons was to introduce a Bill extending the rights of the Press at council meetings.
Both made me raise my eyebrows as I read One of Us, but at the same time I have a troubling feeling that I probably knew one or both already, but such nuggets increasingly fall by the wayside....
Apr 19, 2010
Apr 18, 2010
107 Hangover Square: best of British
I am not sure why I bought this but I thoroughly enjoy English fiction from the 30s and 40s. Not clear I had heard of Hamilton - even though he wrote the play on which Hitchcock's Rope was based.
Somehow it is the sort of Englishness that, for me, works as an antidote to One of Us; I am sticking with it.
Apr 17, 2010
Apr 16, 2010
106 days into 2010 and this is all I have read...
It's been a busy couple of months and it's taken its toll on my fiction reading.
Apr 15, 2010
105.1 Dare I read this book?
According to the review slip, this book has been on my in tray since autumn 1991. I have always regarded it in the same way as I do those clips of footballers getting horrible injuries in which their foot ends up facing in the wrong direction... Horrible but slightly compelling.
Except this nightmare story runs to over 600 pages.
Should I commit to reading it before May 6? Perhaps I will track my progress using the ReadMore app I have just downloaded to my iPhone - makes reading sound like an exercise routine, with some scary personal training urging me to 'enter the zone' or some such enticement.
Shall I? Me, who feels nauseous when the train goes through Grantham station....
Oh, go on then.
Apr 14, 2010
104 Oresund Bridge from space!
Beautiful photo by @Astro_Soichi
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