CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done. Off to Oxfam with it. Rather hard going with small print and even smaller print in the footnotes.

Next: "Call for the dead", John leCarre.

Still haven't found "A murder of quality" despite the illusion* of having seen it somewhere in the garage on Monday. Ho hum.


*More like a delusion but there you go: certainly seems to have been some sort of mirage.

And a delusion it proved so to be: found in the bookcase behind this very chair, accompanied by a paperback copy of "Smiley's People" (this last particularly gratifying since I spent a whole £1 on a hardback bookclub edition a fortnight ago), so:

Next: "A Murder of Quality" by John Le Carre (1962).

[DoctorStrangelove]

And a delusion it proved so to be: found in the bookcase behind this very chair, accompanied by a paperback copy of "Smiley's People", so:

Next: "A Murder of Quality" by John Le Carre (1962).

Done. Very good. I like short books. .

Next: "The spy who came in from the cold" by John Le Carre. Once I've found a copy.

[Uncle Albert]

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie. I like a bit of Rushdie from time to time.

[DoctorStrangelove]

"The Dam Busters" by Paul Brickhill (1952, revised 1983).

So the film covers the first dams op, the book goes on to cover many more ops.

From bouncing bombs they went on to precision bombing with Tallboy and eventually Grand Slam bombs which Wallace had suggested in 1939 but The Powers That Be said that 500lb bombs were perfectly adequate and 12,000lb and 22,000lb bombs were a figment of his imagination.

The rate of attrition was dreadful.

Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Reach for the sky: biog of Douglas Bader" by Paul Brickhill. This one is a 1950 hardback.