What are you reading at the moment?

This sounds a bit geeky. One of my interests is handwriting and letters, especially from the famous.

This substantial book, Letters of Note, is a collection of letters written by such people as Elvis to the President, an exchange between Frank Lloyd Wright and a small boy who wants a kennel designed for his dog, a letter written by an insane German inmate who writes come back to me over and over, letters from JFK, Churchill, Edward V111, too many to list but there is a letters of note website if you are interested.

The book has photographs of the actual letters, which is good for geeks like me who are interested in how people write in addition to what they write.



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...hope you enjoy his style...
On the Noir-ish front, I recently read the book that became the film Get Carter by Mike Hodges. It was originally called Jack's Return Home, but is now published in the same name as the film. British Noir. Engrossing from the first line, I read it in two sittings. An astonishing sense of place, unremittingly grim (up north), it pisses down constantly and the risk of secondary lung cancer is very real. The plot of the film - one of my top ten - and the book are pretty close together with a couple of fairly major differences, which I shan't point out. I couldn't recommend it too highly. The author is Ted Lewis. Cheers - I.
 
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