Book 28 - Stewart Brown "Elsewhere"

Stewart Brown - Elsewhere (Peepal Tree)


I recently picked this up for a few pence, twenty of them, and loved dipping into it.

This collection of poetry writes about so many things, from the familiar (home life, teaching your children to read) to the feeling of missing home and listening to the BBC World Service from afar. It even covers West Indies cricket.

The beauty of it lies in the way it makes you look at your everyday life through new eyes.

Even More Blah!

Well as suspected the money did not arrive , so I guess it will be Wednesday as usual. I need this jubilee like a hole in the head, and being of a somewhat republican persuasion, find the whole thing totally boring.

Even if I transfer some money from PayPal to my bank ( only £8 at the moment), because of the bank holiday, it will not even be in the bank till at least the middle of next week. I need a £50 windfall for the weekend

My tweets

• Thu, 18:38: TOTP2 was the usual mix of the good, the and and the ugly.
• Thu, 18:42: Best tunes by Billy Ocean, Ralph McTell, Heaven 17,and Prefab Sprout
• Thu, 18:43: Actually would love to have "Steve McQueen" LP again by the Prefabs
• Thu, 20:09: Empty Pockets http://t.co/9tiTf6hK
• Thu, 23:59: RT @ubuweb: Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge – 1955-56 [MP3 link]: http://t.co/XnPWhutR
• Fri, 00:01: Olive oil and mayonnaise, a potent combination loo wise
• Fri, 06:26: Book 28 - Stewart Brown "Elsewhere" http://t.co/IE7W5xhj
• Fri, 06:41: Even More Blah! http://t.co/EO6MWgfd

Book 29 - Milan Kundera "Immortality"

Milan Kundera “Immortality” (Faber)

Another from my charity shop purchasing visits.

It starts off beautifully. The narrator is poolside, watching an older woman make a playful, girlish, and even flirty gesture to her swim instructor as she is leaving. Watching her act so young, so unaware of her actual age prompts the narrator to ponder ageism and what it would mean to be truly ageless. From there the novel meanders through fact and fiction, weaving real historical figures like Goethe and Hemingway with fictional ones like the woman from the pool, Agnes. Kundera's writing breaks boundaries because the style is a conversation with the reader, a philosophical journey through topics like relationships, sex and of course, immortality