Library Thread, What book are you currently reading?

Just now I am reading Paws in the Proceedings by Deric Longden....a little light relief and very funny.

I've joined a book club and we're reading John McGahern's That they may face the rising sun. It's a story of a farming community in the west of Ireland around the 1950's. Not much action but plenty of atmosphere.

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I get almost all my books in charity shops. if there is one that I want particularly I always look on Amazon. There are loads to be had there for as little as a penny plus a couple of pounds postage.

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Gustav Mahler was the finest composer in the world EVER.

Am still reading Peter Turnbull mysteries - he writes about York.

What is a sneckelway?
Maggie

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"Where there's a wall, there's a will."

I think it's an alleyway Maggie, they have snickets, ginnels and in Sussex we have twittens.

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How many roads must a man drive down, before he'll admit that he's lost? (Apologies to Dylan)

Thanks, Hawkweed, I thought it must be something like that, but I thought maybe it might be underground. He also mentions 'walking across the walls' several times in getting across the city of York???
Maggie

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"Where there's a wall, there's a will."

York is a walled city and you can walk right around the city on the walkway on top. York is my favourite city in England and I hope to revisit before I get too ancient.

The city walls - City of York Council

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How many roads must a man drive down, before he'll admit that he's lost? (Apologies to Dylan)

I have stayed in York, but only to get to Fulford for the golf. Saw a bit of the city though. Have been doing a bit of reading in a bookclub I joined at my local library. Great bunch, 10 of us and room for just two more max.
Our latest read was the anonymous Woman in Berlin. It's diaries kept by a woman in Berlin at the end of the war, describing the final fall of the 3rd Reich, the take-over by the Russians and the quest for survival including the rapes that occurred. Very moving.

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Have put this on my library list - sounds really good.
Maggie

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"Where there's a wall, there's a will."

It is, very moving. Brought back too many memories for me of Belfast in the 'Troubles' 1970 remembering bombs goign off and my own experience of being threatened at gunpoint.
Everyone in my group enjoyed it.

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