Lucky Jim might be the funniest book I’ve ever read. We were both around 20 when I discovered it and have grown old together. It’s time to rekindle our bond.
On a less literary note, Kingsley wrote a hilarious "guide" called Everyday Drinking. Not so useful during dry January... but a good enough reason to ignore dry January, if you need one.
Imagine traveling to Ireland to celebrate that first Bloomsday and seeing Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin casually bar hopping Joyce's Dublin in a horse-drawn coach...
Do you keep a single list? A categorized list? Do you have a method less random than my endless snatches of paper with scrawled authors’ names and titles?
Lucky Jim might be the funniest book I’ve ever read. We were both around 20 when I discovered it and have grown old together. It’s time to rekindle our bond.
I prefer his later work--green man, biographers moustache
On a less literary note, Kingsley wrote a hilarious "guide" called Everyday Drinking. Not so useful during dry January... but a good enough reason to ignore dry January, if you need one.
I never need a reason to ignored January, but it does sound fun.
Imagine traveling to Ireland to celebrate that first Bloomsday and seeing Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin casually bar hopping Joyce's Dublin in a horse-drawn coach...
Quite a sight!
I read Catcher in the Rye while riding home in a school bus. We thought we were rebels.
Haha the joy of fiction
Freya Stark's 'Ionia - a Quest' was published in 1954, one of my favourite travel books.
Don’t know it shall add to my list
Do you keep a single list? A categorized list? Do you have a method less random than my endless snatches of paper with scrawled authors’ names and titles?
No just a bit internal list ... not very systematic