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Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this unique exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror to see if they do, as believed, make the most comfortable of bedfellows. His love of books and booksellers in contagious and this book is, in fact, a homage to booksellers and their courage and fortitude in the face of the last three years of pandemic. Robin’s first solo show was a disaster, but a disaster that ended with him punching a melon with Vernon Kay’s face drawn on it before singing Mustang Sally (still no cruise ship bookings). The books themselves, even though I cannot say I had much knowledge of the horror film genre, woke memories of happy reading discoveries. He recounts how some books are especially valuable despite first appearances, and reveals that he really knows his books.
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Most objects of Ince’s quests are similarly offbeat, though he’s a sucker for a good horror story and a slim novel—slim because after 209 pages his attention span begins to falter, making Anthony Burgess’ The Pianoplayers, at 208 pages, “exactly right. Featuring stories by Mitch Benn, Katy Brand, Neil Edmond, Richard Herring, Charlie Higson, Matthew Holness, Rufus Hound, Robin Ince, Phill Jupitus, Tim Key, Stewart Lee, Michael Legge, Al Murray, Sara Pascoe, Reece Shearsmith and Danielle Ward. Not that he neglects to describe his surroundings, even when he talks in the corner of a market when the book selling area is not so well defined. I’m also reading Myths of Gender: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto Sterling, who’s a very interesting biologist and kind of activist.This is a personal account of Ince’s tour of Britain which was an attempt to replace a stadium tour with Brian Cox which would have attracted thousands of people, cancelled because of covid. The list of Dickensian villains is fine enough, but no Silas Wegg or Grandfather Smallweed or John Jasper? But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now presents one of the world’s most popular science podcasts.
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The Manuscript”, as he’s soon dubbing it, inspires a quest to repurpose the myth of Babel as a metaphor not for conflict and division but unity. Of all these books, Darkshire’s is most precise about the actual work of antiquarian and second-hand bookselling. Ince’s relationship with books is so strong because he has a real need of them “I don’t retreat into books, I advance out of them…Books define me…My life is summed up by the Japanese word Tsundoku – allowing your home to become overrun by unread books” So as he sums it up “This book is the story of an addiction and a romance – and of an occasional points failure, just outside Oxenholme Lake District station.Marjorie Taylor Greene, and adviser Rudy Giuliani, recounting how Giuliani groped her backstage during Trump’s Jan.
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Many of us can claim to be obsessed by books, even though it’s true, in my opinion, that you can never have too many books. By one of the literary world’s strange associations, Oliver Darkshire’s book is blurbed “Think The Diary of a Bookseller but with quite a lot more Bernard Black…” and the author of The Diary of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell, has a third volume of his diaries out. It’s about the great British-Mexican surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington, and was written by her son, Gabriel Weisz Carrington. While the book offers few big reveals beyond her testimony (many details leaked before publication), her behind-the-scenes account of the chaotic Trump administration is intermittently insightful. Though strictly for cat lovers, there’s a beguiling lightness to the way these stories handle themes of community and our bonds with animals.I am too anxious for some of the hallucinogens that my confident friends experiment with, so my trips are fuelled by turning pages.
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This is an engaging read which reveals a real passion for books and his relationship with them, but also something of the people who also love them, some sufficiently passionate to realise their dreams in opening a place to encourage others to discover the joy of reading. We both are likely to find, say, the Maleus Malificorum resting alongside a book on quantum physics next to an Edwardian hardback copy of Bessie Marchant's The Girl Captives on our shelves.If he does a fourth volume, and I am sure he will, I might release an almost antiquarian tome entitled A True and Sincere Series of Refutations, Revisions, Corrections and Castigations on Mr Bythell’s Memory. Hutchinson, who served as an assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, gained national prominence when she testified to the House Select Committee, providing possibly the most damaging portrait of Trump’s erratic behavior to date. It seems to me that no-one would choose to read constantly if they liked the sound of their own thoughts! Back in Autumn 2021, Robin was due to appear with Professor Brian Cox on the acclaimed Horizons stadium tour, but the multi-media ‘space odyssey’ had to be postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions. This unabashedly whimsical quartet of interlinked stories unfolds on the outskirts of Tokyo, a place of office blocks, railway lines and talking cats.
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