Rosettes

A tasting menu at a Michelin starred restaurant and a panto horse derby. Standard bank holiday weekend.

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Stuff I've been Reading - August

Unexpected genius of pigs- Matt Whyman
The Holy Vible - Elis James and John Robins
Black Moses - Alain Mabanckou
The Girls - Lori Lansen

The Matt Whyman book was lovely,  but then I am quite a fan of pigs. It didn't make me want one as a pet though. It sounded like they would make a right old mess of the dahlias.

I read the first bit of Holy Vible a while aho and found it funny enough to want to read the rest - it made me do a lol on the train and everything. I didn't enjoy the rest of it anywhere near as much, turns out it was a book of in jokes from a radio show.  Still, it had a chapter on Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Any book with a chapter on Gorky's Zygotic Mynci can't be bad.

I've never been a fan of funny books. I have a lot of time for books that happen to be funny - Colin Bateman, say, or Chris Brookmyre. But books that are primarily "funny" I tend not to get on with. Even the big ones - A Confederacy of Dunces, Diary of a Nobody, Three Men on a Bike. I guess that that's not a bad company for Black Moses...

I've been reading The Girls for ages. After being reliably informed that I would be through it in a couple of days, it has taken most of the year. Still, done now, ultimately I really enjoyed it, even if it did take for ages.