I got BDGs latest, a George Pelecanos, Geraint Thomas's book, Tim Moore's one about cycling along the length of the Iron Curtain and a signed autobiography of rally driver Chris Sclater, which was co-authored by a bloke I sort of know.
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Arriving in the post today (late, thanks to my mum who doesn't realise that she can order from Amazon in the US so instead orders from Amazon.co.uk) are two Friedrich Durrenmatt crime novels. My mum may not understand much about how Amazon works, but she has a really fantastic knowledge of books and always gives me things I've never heard of before but turn out to be utterly fascinating. These look like they'll fit that bill very well.
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I pretty much only get books now, which is good, especially as my in-laws have by now worked out that getting me something, anything, with the word Fussball on the cover does not guarantee my unbridled delight.
BDG - Illustrated History of Football Hall of Fame (from my Mum, as forecast upthread)
Eileen Chang - Half A Lifelong Romance (eldest impette - set in 1930s Shanghai, where she's currently studying. Hoping to visit her there at Easter, which is when I'd read this)
Philip O CeallaiGH - notes from a Turkish Whorehouse (short stories. Irish friend in US sent me this - never heard of it, and never had a Xmas present from him before, but he says they'll be "right up your street")
Eric Stehfest - 9 Tage Wach (frau imp - memoir of a crystal meth addict. Might be her way of telling me to cut back on the pop)
Peter Krauss - Singt der Vogel, ruft er oder schlägt er? (also frau imp - asked for this one. A book about the verbs used to describe the sounds made by various birds. Thought it would be good for my German birding vocab)
Durs Grünbein - Die Jahre im Zoo (brother-in-law - nostalgic memoir about living in the DDR. Actually wanted this a while back and then it fell off my radar)
Francis Fulton-Smith - Loving se Germans (niece - the one who calls me 'the eternal tourist' for my love of most things German. Memoir by Munich-born and -bred British actor about his split German-British identity. Read first few pages and it looks suitably wry and self-deprecating)
Joachim Meyerhof - Die Zweisamkeit der Einzelgänger (sister-in-law - fourth instalment of the brilliant and funny memoirs of a German actor, though he doesn't write about acting at all, just tells stories of his upbringing. Am currently on the second one, which is actually the first one, the first one was the third one, about his teenage year as an exchange student in the US, and it was so successful he went back and started from the start.)
Robert Seethaler - Der Trafikant (sister-in-law again - novel set in 30s Vienna about a 17-year-old newspaper seller who pours out his love troubles to one of his customers - Sigmund Freud)
And a book token from my other sister-in-law, which is also good because there are new books from Elke Heidenrich and Sven Regener I really want too.
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Mrs F got me a Japanese book the title of which translates rather inelegantly as Railway Stations From Which You Can See The Sea. It’s essentially a photo book of mostly rural stations that comply with the title and browsing through it makes me want to visit places like Kitahama, on the north-eastern coast of Hokkaido. Great book and I’m lucky to have it.
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I've just opened some belated Christmas presents and there's been a mix up. Sister in law has got a copy of BDG's newest book that was meant for me and I've got two books on how Christianity should be more Jewish as all the gentiles have been getting Yeshua wrong all this time. I don't want to read those books. I want to read BDG.
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- Mar 2008
- 7575
- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until I can forgive them for hiring Jose), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
Because we've spent the past 4-5 years traveling to visit my in-laws and the cost of the flight + rental car isn't very cheap, the missus and I have mostly gone with very small gifts. But I know that family members like to feel like there is more or less equal gift giving, so every year I bring the same book with me: Power, Corruption, and Pies (vol 1). The missus wraps it. I open it and say out loud so everyone can hear: "What a great choice. I'm excited to read this." I read a few chapters while I'm there since things can be a bit slow. Then I get home and get caught up with whatever else I was reading. Repeat. I should be ready to start volume 2 in about a decade.
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- Mar 2008
- 7575
- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until I can forgive them for hiring Jose), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
Originally posted by danielmak View PostBecause we've spent the past 4-5 years traveling to visit my in-laws and the cost of the flight + rental car isn't very cheap, the missus and I have mostly gone with very small gifts. But I know that family members like to feel like there is more or less equal gift giving, so every year I bring the same book with me: Power, Corruption, and Pies (vol 1). The missus wraps it. I open it and say out loud so everyone can hear: "What a great choice. I'm excited to read this." I read a few chapters while I'm there since things can be a bit slow. Then I get home and get caught up with whatever else I was reading. Repeat. I should be ready to start volume 2 in about a decade.
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I got the first two volumes of Robert Caro's planned five-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, from relatives who know I love political biography. Weighty tomes, to put it mildly. I've since looked the thing up. 4 of the 5 volumes have been published. The fourth volume apparently covers up to (the end, I hope, of) 1964, not much over a year into LBJ's 5 and a bit years of presidency. Wikipedia tells me that this month it was reported that the fifth volume (on which Caro's research and writing work has so far covered up to 1966) is still "several years" from readiness for publication. Erm, Caro is 83 years old. This colossal work may end up having a bit of the "before they were famous" about it.
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- Mar 2008
- 9835
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
I got William Boyd “The Dreams of Bethany Melmoth”, Mohsin Hahmid “Exit West” and the book of one of my fave, now defunct, websites “Nothing to See Here - the hidden joys of Scotland”
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I got a load.
Three from the Travel Books thread thanks to my mum: Endurance by Alfred Lansing, Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban, and Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
And then a bunch of new books: Less , Bad Blood, Ecucated , Providence, The Mars Room and American Marriage.
And a couple of classics that I never read: Gravity's Rainbow and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
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- Mar 2008
- 9835
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post'Six Easy Pieces' by Richard Feynman
'Goldenhand' by Garth Nix
The 'Blood Bowl Almanac'
My own copy of 'The Girl With All The Gifts' because I want to read it again
A Star Wars Lego annual with a Lego C3PO figure one the front.
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- Jul 2016
- 9387
- Dublin
- Bohemian FC Manchester United Mansfield town Torino Berwick rangers
- Chocolate Digestives
THE FIVE by Hallie Rubenhold; about the Women who were victims of Jack the Ripper.
Michael Palin in North Korea
ULTRA the underworld of Italian football; by Tobias Jones
Looking forward to reading them all
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