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@boscobel19751
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This is the greatest author photo of all time. Yes?
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Salman Rushdie: “He used to say that what he wanted to do was leave behind a shelf of books—to be able to say, “From here to here, it’s me.” His voice is silent now. His friends will miss him terribly. But we have the shelf.”
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Brilliant, cold, righteous anger. Michael Rosen letter to the Guardian this morning. One to cut out and stick on the fridge.
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@boscobel19751
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The greatest comedy sketch of the last five years. Saw it live and almost died laughing. 30 years ago he’d have been on a hit list. One for the Irish kids. ☘️
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@DrJamesJBailey @RolandBates12 Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want.
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This is the greatest rock music book - funny, embarrassingly honest and so well written.
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I had been making my rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped.
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Nothing like a good hook to reel in the reader! A Thread of the 50 Best Opening Lines in Classic Literature. 🧵 👇
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Bloody “No Parlez” again!
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“Is it the Weatherall remix. ?”
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This, exactly! “Champagne socialist!” “Yeah, and? Your point is?” This has always driven me wild. My Dad worked on building sites. Went down the pit in Sligo aged 14. Did the Guardian crossword and read Dickens on constant rotation. Nothing is too good for us, son, what he said.
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Here's one way to keep the working class down: Tell them that every little thing they do which might broaden their horizons is a betrayal of their roots. This works equally well for important things like going to university and utterly meaningless things like eating feta cheese.
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@MarburyBirds It’s a cockchafer. Sometimes called May Bug - we normally get them late May and a June when it warms up. Still Arctic here at the moment. Quite alarming when they fly in through an evening window like a giant mechanical clockwork missile - bouncing off heads and lamps. Harmless.
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@boscobel19751
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There are many good records. This is the greatest. It is endlessly satisfying. Never sounds old. Impossible to date. Sui generis. And utterly wonderful in a dew- soaked, fresh, spring -time, early-morning, bloody hell this is a beautiful world kind of way.
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@boscobel19751
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This is FANTASTIC.
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This one.
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@BradfemlyWalsh
Shambooooo 🎃👻🦇🕷️🐈‍⬛🖤 *Mother of Nothingness*
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Let's have a happy thread! What's the funniest book or books you've ever read? For me it has to be all Molesworth and Youth In Revolt by C.D. Payne. Also possibly He Died With A Falafel In His Hand, but it's probably not aged well (Yes, the Youth In Revolt film is just terrible)
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@boscobel19751
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I’m going in. ⁦ @BacklistedPod ⁩ hasn’t let me down yet.
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Utterly gorgeous. To think this is a real person who lived and breathed in 1964. Time machine photo.
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Name an album with predominantly blue cover.
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Name an album with predominantly blue cover: Potishead Dummy.
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@Andr6wMale What a beautiful, joyous picture Andrew. The grace & humanity with which you shared your experience of grief over the last year - which must seem like a century - is truly a wonderful thing. You will have helped so many people. You’ve certainly helped me. Thinking of you & Nico.
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@boscobel19751
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@bawdynan How was the Gestapo able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrine, especially "crimes" pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life? Recent scholarship, for example, Robert Gellately show it was all denunciations.
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What’s an album you fell in love with instantly on first listen?
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What’s an album you fell in love with instantly on first listen?
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@BabsVan John Irving , who I’d drifted away from and then read this and was reminded. And this guy obvs…
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@boscobel19751
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Been book shelf tidying. There is no finer way to spend an afternoon.
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@ladbible That would be an ecumenical matter. #FatherTed
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@biiilyedwards Not quite.
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@Lord_Steerforth When he used to be in Big Country.
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@boscobel19751
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Good as any sequence of songs on any album. Silver Raven. No Other. Strength of Strings. From A Silver Phial. Some Misunderstanding.
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@boscobel19751
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Aubrey liked my tweet about the Barchester Chronicles.
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@boscobel19751
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@petepaphides ‘Spirit of Eden’ from Mojo - ‘violin prodigy Nigel Kennedy found it hard to break out of his virtuoso noodling so they taped his fingers together. They spent a long and expensive day recording a large brass section and kept only the sound of a trumpeter clearing his mouthpiece.’
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@boscobel19751
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As good an answer as any I can come up with to the question “What’s your favourite book.” Pure pleasure. And short.
@disgracelands9
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“If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.”
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@boscobel19751
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If you can get Sinead to look at you like this you’ve achieved something with your life.
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Morning Tweeps! What are the songs inspired by or that name check other bands?
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@boscobel19751
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@Music__Mentor Not just the greatest cover of a Dylan song, I’m struggling to think of a better cover of any song.
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@boscobel19751
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This in the NME by ⁦ @dannykellywords ⁩ was a life changer for me & my kid sister. Growing up in a council flat in Hackney we were rebelling against the Irish music loved by our Sligo-born Dad. A minute into Sickbed of Cuchullain & everything changed. Dad loved it, so did we.
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@M_Z_Harrison She will have appreciated it. You’re a writer. You know. You did a nice thing.
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@boscobel19751
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Thank you @BacklistedPod for recommending this desolate wonderful book. Tristesse.
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@boscobel19751
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This just arrived. Rubs hands together. If you haven’t heard it yet -check out the brilliant three part series in Auden on BBC Sounds.
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@boscobel19751
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@inimitablepgw Right ho, Jeeves. It’s perfect. A “never fails” shot of cheeriness.
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Name a role you think was perfectly cast.
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Name a role you think was perfectly cast.
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The heart of Saturday nights.
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An album with only one face on the cover.
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An album with only one face on the cover.
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@boscobel19751
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With thanks to ⁦⁦ @simonmontefiore ⁩ - this may be the greatest opening paragraph of any historical biography I have read. “Talleyrand” by Duff Cooper.
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What is your favourite book to screen adaptation? Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 1860/ David Lean 1946.
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@DannyDrinksWine
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What is your favorite book-to-screen adaptation? My pick: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Director: Robert Mulligan (P.S: This is the first one that came to my mind)
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@boscobel19751
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Finally got to this. Masterpiece.
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Greatest band couldn’t give a tiny rat’s ass photos.
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@AlanKelloggs @prodnose Especially true of the joy machine that was the early Beatles. Seriously under rated. I blame the post Oasis - haircut wielding, chin stroking “seriousbeatles” fans. Yes “Rain” is great but what about this?
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@DefJeff Never laughed harder than as a kid watching this. You’re absolutely right. Genius. Thanks for sharing. Great start to the day.
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@boscobel19751
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It’s time.
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@Andr6wMale Really sad. His original of She’s the One is a beauty.
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@marklewisohn @prodnose Her photographs of Hamburg Beatles are so wonderful. Backstory is such a huge part of the Beatles appeal. Even if they hadn’t been geniuses they’d have been worth a whole heap of your attention.
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@mrchrisaddison Get yourself to the best dammed leisure centre in Uttoxeter. @hughlaurie @stephenfry
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@petepaphides Very sorry to hear this Pete. You wrote so movingly about your Dad & the experience of bringing his family to Birmingham in “Broken Greek”. I loved the book. Here’s my favourite picture of my Dad with Grandad in Sligo in 1965. Came to London in 1968 where my sister & I were born.
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@quantick @driverminnie @johncusack One of very few films I can watch over and over. The writer who dreamed up murdering someone with a fountain pen was having a very good day.
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@boscobel19751
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@RyanMcGoverne @ruthblunden Libraries gave us power. ❤️
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Startlingly modern portraits from Egyptian late antiquity. Beautifully described by the brilliant William Dalrymple. You won’t see anything to match this on Twitter today.
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William Dalrymple
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The al Fayum mummy portraits are so real that you can almost hear the sitters speak . Even today, behind glass in a museum, the portraits are so astonishingly lifelike that they can still make you gasp as you find yourself staring at a society lady who may have known Cleopatra
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@boscobel19751
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@Dazzalee127320 “You don’t see many teachers in the staff room”. Yes. And this is one of the saddest changes I’ve seen in 30 years in schools. How did we get here?
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@boscobel19751
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@RoddyFrame Happy Birthday Roddy. Playing this lovely record in celebration.
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@boscobel19751
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Cousin just sent this: “For some reason we’ve created what can only be described as an Irish fruit bowl.” ( #WeareIrish ).
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@boscobel19751
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I’ve been re-reading Martin Amis’ essays and criticism and am reminded - like Orwell - how brilliant and brilliantly entertaining he is. Is there anyone else better connected? And his voice is so immediate and present in this stuff.
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@boscobel19751
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This is fantastic. Have held back on two or three of the BIG Dickens muthas so there are still new ones to read. It’s a white knuckle gamble based on not dying before I read em all. Anyway. What a PLEASURE this is.
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@MJowen174 Rob’s Records. Nottingham. It’s still going.
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@Andr6wMale Andrew - I’m so sorry. Your strength and dignity stand in utter contrast to what we’ve seen this week.
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Have made an evil Yorkshire pudding.
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This “4 records from your parents collection” thing is making me feel my mum and dad were from an impossibly ancient generation and yet born in the 1940s. Maybe it’s Irishness. I can tell you my parents did not but Roxy Music records.
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Post 4 records from your parents' collection.
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@Andr6wMale This broke my heart. And your dignity and honesty and unbelievable resilience. Hats off Mr Male.
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@CuriousUkTelly Power Trio.
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@quantick I’m Still Standing.
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Bought and started this several times years ago. Turns out it was just waiting for the right moment to strike. On holiday this week with nothing to do but read and swim. What a book. And blissfully hundreds of pages long. Believe the hype.
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@boscobel19751
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Never been in a book group. Just finished a re-read of Complicity by Iain Banks (read in the 99s) and feel the need to discuss it with someone.
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@robnitm What an incredible photograph. This looks like the Ford factory to me - it had four chimneys like this, Tate and Lyle didn’t. I grew up in this area and went to school in Bethnal Green. Lots of friends’ Dads worked there. The cranes are also a good indication we are by the river.
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@ReturnofR No one has any time for Savoy Truffle. I love it. Especially with a box of chocolates and a glass of wine.
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What a come back! Right, I’m going in. @BacklistedPod
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We’re back! New episode up now. Books, short stories and more by Graham Greene, with Andy Miller @i_am_mill_i_am , John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson and Nicky Birch @birchos .
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@LifeAfloat You know, don’t you, that we all wish we were doing this; and that we none of us have the chops to do it. But you’re an inspiration and we might just get there. Thank you for sharing.
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Lovely in the daylight but at night you need to watch out for M R James shenanigans.
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The Long Room, Trinity College Library, Ireland
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@reece_dinsdale In two weeks we’ll all be wishing we had this haircut.
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@paulsng Hair today, gone tomorrow. Facing each other on two corners of Windmill Hill Derby.
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Not swimming today.
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Heartfelt thanks to @BacklistedPod for recommending this brilliant hate fuelled biography.. time just skipped gaily by while I read it. The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers: : Lewis, Roger: 9780099747000: Books
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New candidate for the greatest ever author photo.
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@juderogers The greatest ever music mag - Smash Hits - was firmly aimed as much (more) at girls as boys. And all the better for it - natch. A sad day.
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Hi Richard, A truly great year #5albums86 and JUST the right age. 1 The Queen Is Dead 💔 2 The Colour Of Spring 3 Gone To Earth 4 Brotherhood 5 Parade RIP Andy Rourke.
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Richard Shaw
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Good evening folks, crikey where did that 3 weeks go? It’s time for #5albums86 pick your top 5 albums from the year 1986 adding the hashtag. A year made all the more poignant with the sad passing of Andy Rourke today 🙏. Here’s my fabulous five picks to start the ball rolling…
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‘One of the great unremarked benefits of the writers life is you mingle with writers, your friends are writers and when they die they’re still there. And when I miss Christopher I pick up a book of his and I’m not only chatting to him. I’m chatting to him at his best’ Martin Amis
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@boscobel19751
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Re-read.
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@boscobel19751
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His biography of Dean Martin “Dino” is one of my all time favourite books. About music. About show business . About poverty and immigration and Hollywood. And genius. And about Nick Tosches.
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Ian Walker
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Also, while sorting through my father-in-law’s bks, i found this, which is mine & which had gone missing. Glad he pinched it. Glad I got it back. It’s a chaotic book, it makes the vg+ Greil M seem like a court stenographer or a diligent academic. I like its messy, lurching energy
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@boscobel19751
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Thanks to ⁦ @johnmitchinson ⁩ and ⁦ @BacklistedPod ⁩ for the heads up about the wonderful ⁦ @LittleToller ⁩ books. This is so good. You won’t look at a field or copse the same way again!
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@boscobel19751
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The best. You all know it.
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@pepiblyton @DrJenIzaakson That’s rough. A golden age Hollywood counterpoint - my auntie Nuala was 17 and learning hairdressing in Boyle Roscommon in the early 60s when a friend rushed in and said Fred Astaire was in the hotel. Golf holiday. They went down to see. He danced them round the lobby.
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@MichaelWarbur17 Joe Strummer’s collection was pretty ace.
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Re-reading. In last stage of recovery from retina surgery and can SEE. (Hurrah!) Look at these beauties. For my money “A Time of Gifts” is the single greatest book loosely categorised as travel writing in the twentieth century. I am wide open to other suggestions. #booktwitter
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@boscobel19751
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That’s all the encouragement I need. People are depending on us.
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Philip Reeve
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An important public health message from the Chip Marketing Board:
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First of all, this is a GREAT idea. Now need to get thinking cap in. But straight off the bat…
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I’m thinking of doing a thread of comfort books, of books that bring joy or respite from the real world. Which books do that for you?
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@boscobel19751
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Enjoying this by @DalrympleWill immensely - “Aliverdi Khan was a great hero...a cat loving epicure who loved to fill his evenings with good food, books and stories”.
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@memorialdevice And Concorde. And moon landings. And Kraftwerk. The future is in the past.
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My son took this picture which I’m quite fond of.
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Stone Cold Classic. Remember this issue like it was yesterday. As an Irish kid growing up in Hackney this was the first time me and my kid sister bonded with Dad about Irish music, having previously been allergic to the Clancys. Dad and Grandad - Sligo 1965.
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@dannykellywords
Danny Kelly
2 years
Oh Spider. It's so wonderful. I recall first hearing it, and howling at the @NME that it had go on the cover THAT WEEK. That was Friday. Tracked Shane (maybe you?) down in Camden Saturday. Wrote 3000 words Sunday. On the streets Tuesday. Worth it. Record's an eternal classic.
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@boscobel19751
There Must And Shall Be Aspirin
1 year
Same guy? This is the greatest ever biography by anyone of anyone. He HATES HIM. ( and kind of loves him. ) But HATES him.
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Gina
1 year
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