CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Why don't penguins feet freeze?" another NS Last Word book.

Done: Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "How to Fossilise your hamster". NS again. This one's about experiments. .

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: Off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "How to Fossilise your hamster". NS again. This one's about experiments. .

Not as inneresting as the previous two since it goes over much the same ground but experimentally, off to Oxfam with it.

It wonders where Erasto Mpemba* is: as of now he's dust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasto_B._Mpemba


*Who he? The chap who found that hot water freezes quicker than cold water. Who'd have thunk?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Trains and Buttered Toast" by John Betjeman. Appears to be a collection of radio talks. Looks like I started reading this yonks ago, then stopped, laying it down to mature nicely by accumulating a layer of dust.

Turns out it's a collection of wireless talks he gave between 1932 and the 1950s with 1975 thrown in for good measure. Mildly inneresting. Sad about him accidentally breaking his nanny's Xmas present.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Alan Turing: the Enigma Man" by Nigel Cawthorne. Brief & to the point unlike the other doorstop about him.

[hairymouse]

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Why don't penguins feet freeze?" another NS Last Word book.

Well? Does anything eat wasps?

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^quite a lot of things apparently.

Next: "Alan Turing: the Enigma Man" by Nigel Cawthorne. Brief & to the point unlike the other doorstop about him.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park" by Ted Enever.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^quite a lot of things apparently.



Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park" by Ted Enever.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The lost worlds of 2001: the ultimate book of the ultimate trip "2001: a space odyssey"" by Arthur C. Clarke: bought last week, published 1972 by NEL in paperback which is now very delicate, on the verge of breaking the spine.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The lost worlds of 2001: the ultimate book of the ultimate trip "2001: a space odyssey"" by Arthur C. Clarke: bought last week, published 1972 by NEL in paperback which is now very delicate, on the verge of breaking the spine.

Done: off back to Oxfam* with it.

Next: "How Bletchley Park won WWII" by Michael Kerrigan.


*It was in the revolving book rack by the door on my last visit.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "How Bletchley Park won WWII" by Michael Kerrigan.

Done: off back to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution" by Stephen Knight: mostly bollox but quite inneresting bollox which makes a change. A butt of malmsey might have come in handy, like. .

Not highly regarded amongst the cognoscenti apparently, neither the book nor the author.

Nor the author's claims therein.

[WTFH]

Rare for me to do much reading these days, but I'm currently reading "I Am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Honourable Schoolboy" by J. LeCarre. This one's rather longer at 543 pages: must be the advent of word processing or something.

Done. At last. It could have done with some editing it must be said.

Next: "Smiley's People" by J. LeCarre.

A much easier read, thank feck. One can see why there was never a tv mini series of "The Honourable Skoolboy". .