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| A good spot for a little literary criticism ... |
Just in case you wondered, the book club is still going strong. We meet regularly - monthly is the ideal, but this can't always be arranged - and discuss a chosen volume. We cover quite a range of subjects, and have graduated from short books to lengthy tomes. Next time's read is 'The Year of the Runaways' by Sunjeev Sahota, a cool 468 pages. Bad pages, apparently. "You are going to hate this one," opined C, who chose it. Well, with my kind of bus journeys I can get that done in a week or less! And I am due to choose the next one - hehehehe!!! I cackle, rubbing hands with glee.
There is an interesting little volume that describes the ordeal of a few heroic bacteria who got lost in a chemistry lab. Or perhaps the delightfully perverted "Unnatural Selection" by Daniel Evan Weiss. It has one review in Amazon by a delighted customer: "I first read this book about 30 years ago. Why is it out of print? It is so politically incorrect that it should be required reading today. Indeed, I imagine bookstores would be picketed if this were sold today."
Then there is The Case of Mr Crump by Ludwig Lewisohn, or Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, or even Tea and Tranquillisers by Diane Harpwood.
I will not sink as low as The Annals of the Indoor Birdwatchers Society, though.
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| Good views |
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| Flowers and things |
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| Pesky pigeon getting free drinks from the fountain |
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| Demonstration abut Armenia on the walk home!?!?! |
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| Apparently this chin-high bench thing is for porters - they can let their rucksacks (or whatever) rest on the bench while they take a little break. Never seen one of those! |
