A joy of holidays and travelling where you're away from the telly and the computer is reading. Spent a year travelling Australia in a car and a tent with the other half 14 years ago. In that time we read over a hundred books each. There's not a lot else to do in the evenings when its dark by 7 0' clock. Glad there weren't mobile internet devices to waste our time with in those days. I read The Grapes of Wrath on a sun lounger by a swanky hotel swimming pool in Bali. Odd to read about all that poverty and misery in such surroundings. We stayed a few days in an old whaling town in NSW. It was pretty chilly in the evenings so we used to light a fire of Eucalyptus wood in the in the BBQ pit. Read Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes (wonderful book) there by the light of a hurricane lamp. In fact, that's another book I ought to read again.
A year off......I think I could be out of work......for about an hour and I'd go over my overdraft limit! Always had to have a job since I was 16 ( got kicked out by my parents....we never got on!) Although I hope to travel later in life....that'd be nice....
I read voraciously it's one of my greatest pleasures. Everything from military history primarily ww2, through to light fiction. I love Bernard Cornwell and his historic yarns. Just re read vintage stuff and ancestral vices by tom sharpe, not as funny as I remember but I was only 12 when I first read them, about to re do indecent exposure and riotous assembly by him. Currently also reading the psychopath test by Jon ronson and the spanish holocaust about the spanish civil war.
The BEST non-fiction read for many years is Apache by Ed Macy. He recounts his second tour in Afghanistan and the description of some of the sorties is better than a film could portray, makes me think the skill set we use trying to ride a motorcycle fast is nothing compared with what those guys do every time they take off. Buy it, borrow from the library, you won't be disappointed!
who is the author of Chicken Hawk Baldyboy. Just done a libary search using the title , but nothing showing!
Anything by Sebastian Faulks and Iain Banks is worth a read. The Quarry by Iain Banks was the last novel I read; it is about a man in his 50's dying of cancer, his son who doesn't know who his mother is and a group of old university friends visiting his soon to be demolished pile on a hill next to The Quarry. Their lives are examined, measured against expectations and a few home truths are told. A missing old VHS tape, and what it might contain, adds some mystery. Interestingly it was started by Banks before he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was his last book, published shortly before his own death.
its where i do 99% of my reading, so yip need to see if i can get Elt to put a block on between 8.30 and 5, between the Ref and this place and no holiday for years i have been that zonked it wissny true, any excuses to sit and do jack all leaving it to the boys, think my business has suffered, need to get back on it.
