Words Without Music. Perhaps.
R*E*P*E*A*T Bookish Play List 17.5.20
For a change, this week's R*E*P*E*A*T Lockdown Virtual
Tea Party came up with a playlist of books.
Here they are, typed up from my memory of what people said about them...
The City & the City by China Miéville
A murder mystery with a metaphysical twist.
Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse
Written as a more honest and interesting counterweight to the film about
his daughter.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
by Viv Albertine
A telling of punk from a defiantly female perspective.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
Classic tale of migrant workers battling a recession.
Be More Pirate Or How to Take On the World and Win
by Sam Conniff Allende
'A model for how to break the system and create radical change'
A Tale of Wizards, Dragons and Fracking by Noel P Morgan
A comic fantasy based around the Fat Wizard and occupants of a little
known magical village in present day Wales.
Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil
Marcus
A Situationist, Dadaist reinterpretation of punk. Showcases the thin
line between genius and madness.
John Lydon: Its so mad, its so daft, its
so off the wallits thoroughly enjoyable
Interviewer: But you dont think hes completely
wrong?
John Lydon:No, hes not wrong.
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Advice was to ignore the book and watch the TV series instead, but many
might disagree.
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
The smart and breezy novel Normal People could have been, according
to our tea timer.
Soul Shakedown by Gareth R Miles
A deft meld of folklore and sci-fi metaphysics from a Swansea based
writer. http://www.garethrmiles.com/
Come On Everybody: Poems 1953-2008 : Adrian Mitchell
A collection of poetry of marked simplicity, clarity, passion and humour
whose evolution is interesting to track through this collection.
'This is Adrian Mitchell, the British Mayakovsky'- Kenneth
Tynan.
Hings by Chris McQueer.
Young Scottish author much of whose current work is available on Twitter.
(@ChrisMcQueer_).
And in this debut collection. Sounds best read aloud, in his own Glasgow
accent.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Powerful story story of rape and racism told with warmth and humour.
Comments inaccurately transcribed by Rosey R*E*P*E*A*T
Past playlists here
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