Up late feeling a bit random so going to do couple of lists .-

Last ten library books borrowed

1. life a user manual by Georges Perec -french modernist
2. you face tomorrow by Javier Marias – new spanish voice
3. a private affair by Beppe Fenglio – post war italian classic
4. the house of hunger by Dambudzo Marechera -zimbabwean writer that died to young
5. that awful mess on the via Merula by Carlo Emilio Gadda -murder and philosophy in one novel
6. Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen -Danish classic
7. alphabet of the night by Jean-Euphele Milce – Hatian novel about a jewish shopkeeper
8. piano by Jean Echenoz -new french writer a bit like prisoner
9. the labyrinth of solitude by Octavio Paz – book about being mexican
10. the shadow of a smile by Kachi a. ozumba – english based Nigerian

a wide choice there .

5 favourite places

1. Elie fife where my gran lives ,long beaches and peace
2. Aran coast Donegal -spent a lot of my youth around her with my father who is from Derry peat fires and rockpools
3. Torquay -where i spent my honeymoon with my darling wife
4. Chesterfield i love where i live and place i first met my wife at the station
5. Alnwick Northumberland -lived here for a few years wild countryside and peace oh and largest secondhand bookshop in uk lol

i love countryside and peace ,most of all sharing time with my wife in these places .

10 random i pod tracks –

1. had a dream about you baby – Bob Dylan -down in the groove
2. in a future age – wilco -summerteeth
3. dazed and confused – led Zeppelin -song remains the same
4. ready for the floor -hot chip -made in the dark
5. the band played waltzing Matilda -the pogues -rum sodomy and the lash
6. ceremony -new order -retro(disc1)
7. last post on the bugle -the libertines -the libertines
8. blue in green-miles Davies -kind of blue
9. tears of rage -the band -music from big pink
10. stretch out and wait -the smiths -world won’t listen

hope it is an insight into me a bit ,stu