Blackhound wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:28 pm Colditz by Ben Mcintire. Really enjoying it, I saw the tv series in the early 70’s and this book shows it in a different light. I had not realised the school you went to was so important and that the officers had a batman to do the duties, and these guys weren’t allowed to escape.

Read it recently. Surprised by the old school tie mentality too. Douglas Bader came across as a right bastard.

Alan63 - Bader did not come across very well. After I finished it I was sorting some books out and found a book from a charity shop I have never read, or even recall buying. It was by and about the 'Prominente' Romilly and Alexander. Working my way through it now, struggling a bit with the style but will finish it.

If you want it when I am done dm me your address and I will put it in the post - along with the elastic bands holding it together!

Since my last update, I've knocked off both of these, which I thought were excellent and inspiring:

• Other Ways to Win by Lee Craigie
• Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham

I then started to read Disaster Capitalism by Antony Loewenstein, but have had to put it down. I'm now knee deep in:

• ADHD an A-Z by Leanne Maskell
• Autism from A to Z by Kathy Carter
• Skills-based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder by Janet Treasure, Grainne Smith and Anna Crane

I wont lie, there have been more than a few tears in the last week.

I also have Jenny Graham’s book on the go on my Kindle. I am enjoying it but I hadn’t realised just how quick she was moving. The first 7,200km in about 23kph moving speed.

Starting on Jenny Tough’s book, Solo

Heard her on the bikes or death podcast (thanks escape goatee for mentioning about this podcast) and thought she was vaguely exciting. Couldn’t wait for that episode could finish so I could start on her book

Linky to podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qtX05 ... WBiBWmJqow

Thought I might rectify the fact that nobody seems to have read anything since April 11th . Spent several hours in the world's best bookshop - Scarthin Books in Cromford. I always pop in when in the area thinking I'll stay for a couple of minutes but time seems to stretch out as if the place was in a different dimension... which come to think of it, a bookshop pretty much is....

Well, since my last post in here...

I've finished reading:

• ADHD an A-Z by Leanne Maskell
• Autism from A to Z by Kathy Carter
• Skills-based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder by Janet Treasure, Grainne Smith and Anna Crane
• Different, Not Less by Chloé Hayden
• What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic by Annie Kotowicz
• The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy by Steph Jones

About to delve into both:

• Supporting Autistic People with Eating Disorders by Kate Tchanturia
• NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman

Pretty much a world expert now Bob . Hope it's bringing some help for you.

That book shop looks fabulous! Was in one of my own local favourites on Monday, Hungerford bookshop, but it's pretty small compared to that

After a couple of intentionally thought-provoking books, now onto Sean Ryder's 'How to be a Rock Star' which is surprisinly thought-provoking too. It's a great book about what a brand or anyone else needs to know about credibility and doing the right thing, echoes of Seth Godin's work all the way through it. But more than all that marketing toss, what a band and what a lifestyle

faustus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 8:21 pm That book shop looks fabulous! Was in one of my own local favourites on Monday, Hungerford bookshop, but it's pretty small compared to that

Highly recommended. On three floors of an old terraced building. The gaps between all the shelves are little more than body width with numerous dead ends and loops. I'm sure at one point I went along one passage in the attic and popped out on the ground floor like a game of Cluedo. Absolute labyrinth. People went in several weeks ago and are still wandering around. New and secondhand stuff. Great cafe too - hidden behind a door that is itself a bookcase! (as per first photo in fact)

This time I left with Steve Coogan's autobiog (new), Ken Dodd's biog (new), and a number of extremely obscure pre-loved mining books (if anyone's got an unwanted copy of Jim Rieuwert's "Lead Mining In Derbyshire: History, Development and Drainage; Volume 4: Wirksworth" I'll send you £50 tomorrow morning. OK, £75 then? No? Right, £100 and that's my final offer! )

jameso wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 9:11 pm After a couple of intentionally thought-provoking books, now onto Sean Ryder's 'How to be a Rock Star' which is surprisinly thought-provoking too. It's a great book about what a brand or anyone else needs to know about credibility and doing the right thing, echoes of Seth Godin's work all the way through it. But more than all that marketing toss, what a band and what a lifestyle

Funnily enough saw that in Scarthin Books today just along the shelf from Coogan's autobiog!! Nearly bought it but went for Ken Dodd instead. We could do a swapsie

We could do a swapsie

Maybe, dunno, not sure where Ken Dodd would rank in my 'limited time on this earth and so many 1000s of great books available' problem tbh
I've done ride outs to meet people for books swaps before though, it's a good thing to do.

jameso wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 12:58 pm

We could do a swapsie

Maybe, dunno, not sure where Ken Dodd would rank in my 'limited time on this earth and so many 1000s of great books available' problem tbh

Not the best I've read but worth a few hours. Always fascinating to find out what makes people tick, or what it's believed makes them tick.

Anyway, offer now withdrawn . Have moved on to the 600-pager about Keith Moon.....

RIP wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 4:04 pm Anyway, offer now withdrawn . Have moved on to the 600-pager about Keith Moon.....

Hope you have a drink to hand....

Was fortunate enough to have seen him do his stuff with The Who a couple of times 'back in the day'. He was certainly a force of power

Currently reading " A Prayer for Owen Meany" - John Irving.
I started my Irving journey with "The Fourth Hand" and Owen Meany comes recommended. It's a bit mired in American religion, of which I care little, to start with but the story is unfolding and it's becoming more interesting.

I have been in Scarthin bookshop a few times, but not recently. Whenever I go up or down the via Gellia and pass nearby I always think of it.

A couple of days ago I finished 'Faster, Louder' by Boff Whalley (Chumbawamba). It is bio of Gary Devine's early life as a punk while also managing to win the British Fell Running Championship in 1990 at just 23 years old. I recall Gary from that time (from a distance and FRA mag) and we must have raced each other once or twice. He would have been at the front, and I wasn't hence my lack of sureness. My last Yorkshire Champs would have been 1992 (Ingleborough) and he was a likely runner that day. I could not stop myself reading at 100mph just like a punk! It seems him and Boff were teammates, I didn't know Boff was a hillrunner until I read this. I really enjoyed it, but then I knew a number of the races and racers mentioned. And did I ever tell you all about the time I pushed Kenny Stuart to a record time in the Snowden Fell Race in a time that still stands almost 40 years later? Another time perhaps, I even have the tee shirt somewhere.

I have since started The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. The book was published ~1925 although written a decade earlier. It is interesting enough but I thik I was tired when I started it and struggling with the grammer a bit. I enjoyed the Parades End trilogy so will continue.

https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/author/tristan-gooley

Just ordered the one, Wild Signs and Star Paths after a recommendation by Abdur Raheem Green on a podcast. It's about how to read the weather and the stars for navigation etc. Who'd have thought that he reads so varied but I guess he is from Shropshire and does love his mtb.

Hope it's worth it

A book that neither of us remember buying: (The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon), that has grabbed me just like Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow didn't, until the final third when it finally got good.

Just finishing Kevin Barry The Heart in Winter after reading a good review and buying it impulsively in Waterstone's (sorry Indy bookstores!). Absolutely cracking read. I've blasted through it quickly for me (slow/deliberate reader, little time to sit and read), and it's raucous, bawdy but very funny, and brilliantly written. It's a western so the story and setting is formulaic, but the treatment of it is excellent.

Finished Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad which was a reasonably entertaining but flawed insight into a Brit living in Japanese society. Started well but then just became a pompous advert for his Youtube channel.

Now on “How they broke Britain” by James O’Brian which is just making me angry so I need to get it read and move on to something more fulfilling

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:53 am Now on “How they broke Britain” by James O’Brian which is just making me angry

Was going to get hold of a copy of it but might not now as don't like being angry. Already got large telly repair bill as a result of throwing heavy objects at it.

RIP wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 12:35 pm

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:53 am Now on “How they broke Britain” by James O’Brian which is just making me angry

Was going to get hold of a copy of it but might not now as don't like being angry. Already got large telly repair bill as a result of throwing heavy objects at it.

You are welcome to have mine when finished.

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 1:08 pm

RIP wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 12:35 pm

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:53 am Now on “How they broke Britain” by James O’Brian which is just making me angry

Was going to get hold of a copy of it but might not now as don't like being angry. Already got large telly repair bill as a result of throwing heavy objects at it.

You are welcome to have mine when finished.

Ah thanks Dave - yep go for it. Will then pass it on to next BBB-er. I suppose I could also throw the book at the telly which would cause less damage.

The Cider House Rules - John Irving
I found A Prayer for Owen Meany a little too religiously nuanced... but the story was pretty clever. Enjoying this more.