Off Topic Art & Literature

If you can ignore the forced laughter, this might be the book for you.
Brenda’s Beaver needs a barber.

 

Cragside was a good read. The next one “ Seven Bridges” I cant put the thing down!!!

 

St Badger

Sounds like you should try Reginald Hill's books where the dialogue is really good.

Where is that coastline in your new avatar, please ? Seems much more preferable to being stuff in here!

 

Thanks Ian, I will look into that.

The picture is part of the seafront of Torrevieja, on the Costa Blanca.
The town has a mixture of sandy beaches and rocky areas and is a daily walk for me and Mrs B when we are out there.
They even have a section where people, who are unsteady on their feet, can use a hand rail to walk into the water, where there is a row of fixed seats for them to sit on and enjoy the water in safety.

 

St Badger

I have to say that I am drawn to books and films where the dialogue is sharp and realistic. There are some writers who capture people's voices really well. Dickens is probably the best , simply because you know who is speaking without being explicitly told simply because the voices he gives each character are so distinctive. However, it is not something limited to historical writers and even popular writers like James Herriot can be really good at this. I read one of his books last year for the first time and just felt that , although the stories are extremely funny, he is actually a much better writer than people give him credit for. You can clearly imagine the characters he describes and the dialogue is no small part of this. I had the second volume set aside for my holiday but I am doubtful whether that is going to happen now.

 

Just finished 'Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes' edited by Katie Barlow and David Tyler.
A comedian of the left but with a style all his own... Very very funny in places.. Saw him on his last tour in the Berry Theatre, Hedge End. Sadly missed..
A fine holiday read..

 

Practically every broadcast that the Beeb have popped on the radio featuring Jeremy Hardy I have recorded or litened to. Such a funny twist in his humour. He had the knack of finding something, sometimes serious, that nobody else could, and making you look at it in a different way.
I'm that nerdy that I even downloaded the episode of Robert Llewellyn's Carpool [before he went fully fledged Fully Charged] featuring Jeremy Hardy as his passenger:

 

Programme trailers....
'Later on Channel 4, old ladies show their tattoos to Kevin McCloud in 'Gran Designs'
Later on BBC 1 a dramatization of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's lost novel in which his hero is beaten to death. Thats 'Holmes Under the Hammer'.
Later on Channel 4, Paul Hollywood judges contestants on how much phelm they can produce. Thats, 'The Great British Bad Cough'.

 

Yep seven bridges by LJ Ross really is a first class read. A really good page turner....could hardly put it down with one hell of a twist at the end.

 

Double posted???

 

Manana es el dia San Jorge, el dia de las rosas y los libros.

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In keeping with this special day, what kind of rose and what book would you buy your wife, partner or girlfriend?

For me it is the Tudor Rose, and a book - "Cider with Rosie"

 

I am addicted to Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series of thrillers and am currently reading "The one from the other." They are always good reads but this effort about the investigation in to a former concentration camp commandant who tried to flee to Argentina after the war is the best that I have read so far. I am about a third of the way through and the plot has become really intriguing. The dialogue is always something to be enjoyed with these books and this one is proving impossible to put down. It is strange to think that I used to be very sceptical about best selling authors yet having stumbled upon Kerr's series, this is the first author I have found myself ordering books by before I have finished the book I am reading because they are so compelling.

 

What rose and book are you going to buy for your good lady? San Jorge, the patrón Saint of books and roses?

 

I have decided to go onto audible and rejoined the kindle audible club for a few months. For a bit of light reading/ listening, I have downloaded the hobbit narrated by Martin Shaw........am enjoying it immensely......

 

I would join Audible in a heartbeat if it did an audiobook version of The Time Ships. Currently reading it again at bedtime, but I have to get up so early I have to put the book down about 5 minutes after I've started reading.

 

I love the sync between audiobooks and the kindle. This morning I was reading a book then picked up where I left off when I listened to it for 3 hours whilst gardening. When I finished the garden, I picked up my kindle again to continue reading. Flawless.

 

How about keeping your batteries charged?

 

I mean I went from reading on the Kindle to listening on my iPhone back to reading on the Kindle

 

is that the one by Baxter?

 

Yep