Graham Greene With Envy

This is just for Adam really, cos I think this is as close as he'll get to the Greenester in Books Ta Mère.
Ho ho!

Themes for future Ta Meres

Let me know what you think - a few ideas for themes: -

General non-fiction
Biography / Autobiography
Crime / thriller
Russian literature
S American literature
Graphic Novels
Chick Lit
Pulp fiction / popular best-seller
Past Booker winners
Releases from this year
Graham Greene novels!!
Author themes (e.g. Graham Greene)
Poetry collections

Adam

Brucie Bonus

I was on the train a few weeks ago and I happened upon a man reading a Bruce Forsyth biography! I mean really of all the biographies in all of the world. Why is he always classed a "great entertainer" - what is entertaining about a seedy old man with a big chin? Well at a recent wedding I went to there was a groundswell of favourable opinion to one of the grand old men of British tv! I give up.

Adam

Gina on Dorothy

Complete Stories was finally delivered to our door last week and I started it by reading the Introduction, written by Regina Barecca. She is described as a professor of Feminist theory as well as English but also someone who's written serious articles about the top HBO TV series The Sopranos. I'm intrigued.

Is Netball Cultural?

A genuine question raised by Hannah, should we discuss Netball on this blog and is Netball cultural?
Rocio argued that "Celine might have likened his life to a very lonely game of netball. Ok, so its a bit of a tenuous post-modern (cultural) link to make, but recalling the few pages of Death on Credit that I managed to read, its not totally out of place".

I now declare this debate open...

A Rotter Book Club?

Just browsing the BBC's website and came across a book club for the Open University. Thought you might all appreciate seeing what others read/think of/say about books. Perhaps of interest is that back in February they read that curate's egg of ours The Rotters' Club and seemed to love/hate it as much as us lot.
(Justin)