What book are you reading right now?

Just finishing and enjoying:-

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The other great thing about these music books is that you tend to go back and check out the discography.

Next up will be:-

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Gawd it’s Bowie, think I’m addicted!!

After that it will likely be Geddy Lee’s new one - @QuickSticks - I know you have started it any early thoughts on it?

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Little bit of a false start I’m afraid.
I’ve been busy during normal reading time and I can’t seem to concentrate on anything but the music in the Cabin at the moment…:wink:
I hope to get back to it tonight or at the weekend. :crossed_fingers:t3:

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No problem Q, maybe let us know your thoughts in due course.

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Invisible Generals by Doug Melville

The amazing true story of America’s first Black generals, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen.


Picked this up after seeing an interview with the author on the PBS News Hour. Certainly a story of the bravery of men to endure prejudice and rise above the barriers placed in their path. Just a couple of chapters into the book and find it to be an interesting read.

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Q - we all have to call him Mr. Quicksticks

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Far too formal, Andy!! :rofl:

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Mr QuickSticks…? :thinking: :man_shrugging:

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The much anticipated and very delayed follow-up to the excellent I am pilgrim. Worth the wait so far

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Equal parts hilarious and clever.

steve

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Which reminds me that I have another book in the series on my “to read” shelf.

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A bit of local history…

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Nice cover, but Kaka Ale doesn’t sound especially appetising.

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I have finished reading Len Deighton’s “bomber” for the second time in my life.
I read it for the first time as an 18 year old in 1976 and it had a profound impact on me at the time. Although it was fictional, i had watched enough war films then to know that it would have been very close to how war actually was. The reason i had never re-read it was the graphic description of a mid upper turret gunner in a Lancaster and the way he met his death, i remember vividly crying in 1976 while i was reading that section. 43 years latter as i read the same section, i started crying again before i even got to the description of how he died because i vividly remembered my first reading of the book 1976. When a book has a profound impact on you, it is something you never ever forget.

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Interesting - there’s also that ‘in air’ broadcast by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas from an RAF Lancaster over Berlin in 1943, still available on BBC Sounds. At one stage you can actually hear the rear gunner take out a Luftwaffe night fighter, a very lucky moment for them. Apparently the recording was cut ‘direct to disk’ in acetate and it went out over the Home Service the next night !

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Just starting this. With the release of the new film it reminded me how much I enjoyed studying Napoleon at school, most of which is long forgotten now.

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