September Book Talk

[colls]

- What is the last thing you finished reading?
- What are you reading right now?
- Anything knock your socks off lately? Tell us about it.
- Pick up a random book near you (the one you just finished or the one you're reading), go to a random page and share a sentence or two.

Comments

[pretty_panther]

-What is the last thing you finished reading?

Laidlaw - William McIlvanney. Fantastic Glasgow based crime novel.

- What are you reading right now?

The Papers of Tony Veitch which is the sequal to Laidlaw and Orlando by Virginia Woolf

- Anything knock your socks off lately? Tell us about it.

Stonewall by Martin Duberman

Story of a selection of queer people's experiences growing up as gay or lesbians in 50s and 60s USA and their involvement in the famous Stonewall Riots which is seen as the catalyst for the modern day Gay Rights movement. Fantastic read.

- Pick up a random book near you (the one you just finished or the one you're reading), go to a random page and share a sentence or two.

Laidlaw - William McIlvanney

They were at a pub which from the outside looked as inviting as a public toilet. The small windows, well above eye-level, seemed suspicious of the daylight The walls were rough grey plaster, obviously quite recently applied, not so much redecoration as refortification.

[colls]

Friends had gone up to NYC for the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots a few years ago. It was really a pretty fascinating time.