What Are You Reading?

[Eleena]

I'm reading 'What fresh lunacy is this' A book about Oliver Reed in collaboration with close family by Robert Sellers. Brilliant a for, shame about the booze.

[agchristie]

A-H,you are definitely right there.He was extremely bad-tempered and was disliked by many.He retired to Kent and was well known in the pubs there and for picking up young sailors!

He was a fine actor though with great timing and expression!

[Peter Pedant]

Lucasta Brown - has just published L.E.L which is about someone
the crit said her (lucasta's) crit about the Bronte sisters was so good that just read that one and you will have done it all

Lucasta Brown - Bronte sisters the Myth

Much more known and much suppressed ( for what reason?)
so Look begins with the scornful reviews on Jane Eyre 1847 - and the fact they thought she wrote like Angel - tempered they agreed with some coarseness by 1857
so what happened and
how was it done
( chief suspect - Life of Charlotte Bronte - Mrs gaskell )

and letter of Lawrence of Arabia
jesus he was mental that one (*)
and the arabs may have known it (**)

(*) Julie Walters Educating Rita about Branwell Bronte no less
(**) and they still followed him, oiled by British Gold, and generally felt he was mad ( foo-foo! ) but didnt lie

[Peter Pedant]

// By all accounts, Charles Hawtrey was not a pleasant individual //
his brother Dr Hawtrey May was chief Med Off for Cambridge Uni
and looked JUST like him

( you know like my brother looks like Sir Mick Jagger)

Just saying

[ichkeria]

“Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - The mavericks who plotted Hitler’s defeat”

by Giles Milton
Great stuff.