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    Wot u readin'?


    Quarantined alone, I’m hungrily reading classic spy fiction

    The level of detail when agents meet: the smallest glance, tiny giveaway gestures, the significant omission
    Perfect!

    I’ve read Deighton before, but more his warry stuff

    And made a start on Le Carré too, who has previously bored me to tears



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    I am perhaps just too sad! Joined up a month or so ago. Well worth £60pa. And the online resource is phenomenal and addictive. You can search over 100 years of scanned in back issues of three different horology magazines. And by search, I mean by keyword, it’s all properly scanned. Hours and hours of time eaten up.

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    Currently rereading two.
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    I just found Christopher Moore has a new release, so I'll order it today
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    I'm happy that Pocket of Dog Snogging is back! I love Moore's Shakespeare books. Those and Sacre Bleu are my favorites.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pip View Post
    I am perhaps just too sad!

    Not at all. I’ve been toying with the idea of paying about £85 to get access to back issues of Europa Star going back to 1950.

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    Didn't know about that one and just lost a good 15 minutes on it!

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    Lots of fun


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    And then this which was an absolute delight. An Agatha Christie style mystery with a modern one wrapped around it. Very clever stuff.


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    Wot u readin'?

    Looks good, Ollie, will have to check it out
    (Plus suggest it to my friend, who has exhausted the BBC’s supply of classic crime!)


    I’ve been vicariously travelling in Italy, following my autumn trip to Genoa and Turin

    This book evokes the people and cityscape of Florence, with a sweep back through its history of civic pride, fierce opinions on art, and cutthroat commerce among those stunning buildings


    I got pointed towards Lewis’s Florence book by this anthology of writing about the country: by novelists, travellers, poets, residents

    Some big beasts too. Charles Dickens lived near Genoa for a while - who knew?

    Has generated quite a reading list


    Sicily was described so glowingly by several authors that I’m reading this, by an American of Sicilian descent who moved there, writing articles for the paper on local characters and living traditions in remote villages

    The streets of Polizzi Generosa:
    hanging laundry, handpainted street names

    ‘so close and intimate that I felt I’d walked into someone’s stone boudoir’

    ‘In the rain the stones shone like puffed satin pillows - uneven, imperfect, and of humans’


    If I can’t get there this year, at least I can bring it to mind :-)
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    I think you’d enjoy it. There’s a sequel out soon too


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