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This is the only one I've ever read and I love it, one of the best novellas I've ever read. He manages to squeeze so much empathy and emotion into effectively a parable and it'll take you no more than a couple of hours to get through,

March 2024 I realised half way through the month that I'd posted February's reads over in the other book thread so here's a link to that for anyone following here but not there. Book 16: Paul Auster - Moon Palace Third in my Auster chronological readthrough. Gotta say, I struggled with this...

February 2024 Despite the shorter month, I managed to get quite a few in due to a few sleepless nights and several of the books being quite concise. Book 8: Michael Chabon - Kavalier & Clay I enjoyed this one although probably not as much as I expected to given both the critical and general...

Looks beautiful, Grae. As much as I love my Kindle, there's nothing quite beats a bookcase full of books. I was looking at the Vitra Eames chairs recently and in a nice leather they set you back nearly 10k. I'll have to get the kids through school before I even start a conversation with Mrs...

If you ever find yourself in Yorkshire, UK - check out the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It has hundreds of great sculptures from global artists but one of them is an amazing circle of zodiac heads by Ai Weiwei in bronze, all mounted on tall posts. They’re beautiful to take in in person...

Whoop! Whoop! Ya Boi made a thou consecutive days reading!

Perfect!

Decided to take @Lee Newman’s advice and I’m taking my mother-in-law along to see them perform this in full tonight!

The send to kindle option is pretty good too and they seem to have started favouring epub over mobi or whatever it was.

I'm gutted for next Friday. Ruby Rushton are playing a full run through of Two For Joy out here in Woolwich. I can walk there in half hour but my mother-in-law is arriving that day for a long weekend visit. There are some commitments (I'm told) I can't get out of.

Shabaka tix secured. Good start to the day!

The Circling Sun - Spirits (Soundway, SNDWLP169, UK, 2023)

January 2024 Book 1: Patricia Highsmith - The Boy Who Followed Ripley So-so addition to the Ripley series. Tom befriends a 16 year old boy with a murderous past in this fourth instalment, gets into European mischief and intrigue before a tragic end awaits them in America. It dragged a little...

Asher Gamedze w/ Xristian Espinoza and Alan Bishop (Astral Spirits, AS179, 2022)

Tricky - Knowle West Boy (Domino, WIGLP195, UK, 2008)

New Ill Considered up for pre-order. Sample track is good.

I still see it when I continue through to make the purchase:

Just saw this had a movie release. I hope they do it justice, it definitely has potential to be a compelling feature.

Listening to this and it’s really good. CD or streaming only unfortunately.

2023 in Review Solid year, not too many duds and a whole lot of belters. Real stand-outs: Booth, The Agony and the Ecstasy and The Mirror & The Light were all superb examples of historical fiction detailing fascinating people. Luster, The Shards and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow were my...