Okay, we wrapped up the second book, The Man In The Wooden Hat, and had to blast down to the library to pick up Last Friends, the third in the set. Kim read book one aloud, I read book two aloud, and now we are alternating on this one. Yes, we still recommend these reads, … Continue reading Last Friends: Old Filth Trilogy Book 3
So the Pew Research Center tells us that one in four American adults didn’t read a book in the last year. (I would have expected more non-readers than that, actually.) Anyway, that leads me to report that we are now well into the second of the Old Filth Trilogy, namely, The Man In The Wooden … Continue reading Books, Including Old Filth
The question has arisen, and I apparently had neglected in my earlier post to explain. The “Filth” in Old Filth is actually an acronym popularly used by British civil servants, at least in the referenced novel: FILTH is “Failed in London, Try Hong Kong.”
A few people have asked recently, so here goes … After finishing the Filth trilogy, we read more of Jane Gardam, this time The Queen of the Tambourine (said to have won the Whitbread Prize for Novel of the Year). Will probably seek out more Jane Gardam in the future; she’s written a ton of … Continue reading Currently Read or Heard or Viewed, and Recommended
Here at Chez H we have embarked on a new set of reading adventures, having completed Sarah Bakewell’s hard act to follow of At The Existentialist Cafe. On my own, I am reading Bakewell’s earlier (2010) How To Live, a piece of non-fiction on 16th century essayist Michel de Montaigne. And loving it. But … Continue reading So Far, So Good … Read On