My tweets

• Wed, 12:24: Back to Teynham tomorrow for awhile before gig with Ville on Saturday
• Wed, 13:08: Cheers http://t.co/ePMZd6Vi
• Wed, 13:58: Listening to Cannonball Adderley "Somethin' Else" CD
• Wed, 13:59: RT @davidfrum: Capacity of bankers to commit scandals now greatly exceeding public's capacity for outrage
• Wed, 14:00: Beforehand played Nina Simone CD "I Put A Spell On You"
• Wed, 14:23: Check out the Portico Quartet - ambient electronic jazz
• Wed, 14:27: I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/IJr7RPL2 Portico Quartet - Ruins
• Wed, 14:34: I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/ujmCEMY8 Portico Quartet - Clipper
• Wed, 14:37: Another classic jazz man past away - R.I.P. Lol Coxhill

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Book 40 - Bernhard Schlink "The Reader"

Bernhard Schlink "The Reader" (Phoenix)





This is really a powerful, yet graphic book about Nazi Germany and the maturation process of a young boy. Michael, the protagonist, has an affair with a much older woman who eventually disappears from his life. As an adult, Michael comes face to face with the abandonment he faced as a child when the woman is put on trial for crimes she committed as Nazi concentration camp guard. The novel is a bit slow, but very well written.

Nothing Is Simple

Back from Seaford today. Arrived about 4.30 pm after a very good dry journey. Totally skint till tomorrow when I should have about twenty pounds come in but is not enough to do the electricity key meter let alone go back to Brighton Saturday to do a gig with Ville at the Northern Lights. I hope that a nice sum from another company I am expecting monies from might come tomorrow although the prognosis as yet is uncertain.

Trouble is I have left the big case over in Seaford as I do intend to go on Saturday for the gig, and hence, I will probably have to grab a lot of books for selling over at Faversham tomorrow to cover the journey and a few drinks.

The money tomorrow is from Retail Eyes and the other one I am expecting is Lodge (£52) which might not come in till Monday or Tuesday, so I am fretting a little bit as that damn electricity key meter will need feeding again.

At least the big one is on Wednesday which will just be  in time for the Charley beer festival over the following weekend and to which I have been invited by Mike and Graeme to attend For that I do not mind slumming it in a sleeping bag.

Nothing is simple , especially on the bread line.