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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
starting a whole bunch of books to be able to mix it up as the mood seizes me. This my current reading list, all started.
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Congrats!
I too like to have several books going at once, but four or five is my sweet spot. More than that and I start to lose track.
So that said, among other books:
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Originally Posted by issybird
I’m currently reading the first volume of Henry “Chips” Channon’s diaries; dish about English society and and the corridors of power in the interwar years is so much jam to me. Delicious stuff.
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Compulsively readable, the world from the point of view of a gold digger/social climber who must have been charming in person as he comes across as repugnant in his private account. Having finished the first volume, I couldn't resist tearing into the second and these are hefty suckers at over a thousand pages apiece, although a significant part is footnotes etc. I'll probably take a breather before reading the third volume.
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis, a hilarious short novel about a group of old people who live together.
Listening to
Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis which has not aged well; it's a very heavy-handed examination of "modern society" a century ago. I'd probably DNF it except that it's doing the trick for bedtime listening and Grover Gardner is always good.