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I just read Mr. Strangelove, A Biography of Peter Sellers by Ed Sikov, and he was even more unpleasant than I was expecting him to be. I will never understand how someone who played two such sweet characters in Dr. Strangelove could be so appalling brutal in real life.
Now reading the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov again (previously i read about five of the series, now I have all seven, so this will be the first time reading all seven) starting with Foundation, rather than Prelude to Foundation. Inertia/indecision between which one to start with has prevented me reading the full series til now. I know Prelude comes before chronologically in book time, but was written years after Foundation, so I thought Foundation might be better to start with.
And I bought a paper book in a second hand book store which I have wanted to read for a long time, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, autobiography of the author Jeannette Winterston, the title coming from something her mother used to say to her all the time. The author wrote Oranges are not the Only Fruit, an autobiographical account of growing up a lesbian in a puritanical religious family in Northern England.
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