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Oct. 1st, 2018 08:09 pmI have just finished reading Danny Baker's autobiographies, and thought "oh, I haven't done a book post in months, I should start again", and it turns out that it is a literal year since I last posted the books I read. So here is a year's worth of my reading - in alphabetical order rather than order of reading.
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To start - Danny Baker is someone I knew from the telly during what he calls his "ubiquitous period", and that he was generally thought to do smashing radio, that I had never heard. I started with the latest book, about his experience of and recovery from mouth cancer, and enjoyed the writing so very much - in staying up way past when I should be sleeping for just one more chapter - I bought the other two immediately. I understand that Amazon kindle deals aren't great for literary economies, but their 99p books have been very kind to me for getting books I otherwise would not have thought of (see also Bruce Dickinson's autobiography).
I bought a collected edition of all EM Delafield's writing, but found Gay Life rather stodgy going, so defected in the middle to read "just a bit" of the Provincial Lady and whizzed through them all. It was a struggle not to go straight back to the beginning when I finished Wartime.
I enjoyed Unconventional, which is a young adult romance(ish) set in the world of sci fi convention planning, mostly for teh details of what goes into planning and running a con.
I now only have one (I think) Barsetshire novel remaining to read. I enjoyed them all! I think because I was prewarned by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spiralsheep that they suffered in both writing and morals, I was able to keep at it and just enjoy immersing into the world of the characters.
( 119. )
To start - Danny Baker is someone I knew from the telly during what he calls his "ubiquitous period", and that he was generally thought to do smashing radio, that I had never heard. I started with the latest book, about his experience of and recovery from mouth cancer, and enjoyed the writing so very much - in staying up way past when I should be sleeping for just one more chapter - I bought the other two immediately. I understand that Amazon kindle deals aren't great for literary economies, but their 99p books have been very kind to me for getting books I otherwise would not have thought of (see also Bruce Dickinson's autobiography).
I bought a collected edition of all EM Delafield's writing, but found Gay Life rather stodgy going, so defected in the middle to read "just a bit" of the Provincial Lady and whizzed through them all. It was a struggle not to go straight back to the beginning when I finished Wartime.
I enjoyed Unconventional, which is a young adult romance(ish) set in the world of sci fi convention planning, mostly for teh details of what goes into planning and running a con.
I now only have one (I think) Barsetshire novel remaining to read. I enjoyed them all! I think because I was prewarned by
spiralsheep that they suffered in both writing and morals, I was able to keep at it and just enjoy immersing into the world of the characters.
