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Throwing Muses Bright Yellow Gun

can feel the David Jones vibe in this one.

I bought En Route straight afterwards but somehow just couldn't bring myself to pick it up - i had enjoyed La Bas so much I thought he was unlikely to reach those heights again and the idea that Hollebecq really liked En Route didn't really help...

Primitive Painters is brilliant though

Started The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. I really liked ho Becoming Dickens and he does a similar thing here - zooming in on one key year to bring out major themes and ideas. I suppose it’s like the James Shapiro approach to Shakespeare...

Quite a rigid form for him. As if he wanted to write a sonnet but couldn’t quite be conventional enough so slung an extra line in. Same with the stress - some are pure iambic pentameter but a number have a dangling extra foot, kind of unsettling, not allowing us to become comfortable, there’s a...

I must admit as much I enjoyed watching my son play football I did not miss the football dads when he chose cycling instead.

Roubaix was utterly brilliant by the way.

Thank you. I’m not sure what this adds to the discussion but thank you for adding it nonetheless.

Salah has scored a frankly ridiculous goal to put Liverpool up 2-1.

Wet Roubaix tomorrow- should be a properly epic race.

But don't forget the songs That made you cry And the songs that saved your life Yes, you're older now And you're a clever swine But they were the only ones who ever stood by you

Agree with @Benny B Well I Wonder captures a longing and a yearning that few others do. I know we’ll get our usual ‘it was all shit, everything you ever liked is wank, you mugs’ from the usual nay sayers but, as hard as it is to believe, the Smiths really were the most remarkable band for about...

Smiths. There is no debate. No debate.

yep, i am bringing my bike - it is after all a romantic weekend.

Charlie XCX from Stevenage too, as is Lewis Hamilton and Gary Younge the Guardian writer and the bassist from the Breeders, Josephine Wicks. Nearby Hitchin just has James Bay and newsreader Richard Whitmore.

Thank you Luke, you really have whetted my appetite for my romantic weekend away with my wife. We will fit right in.

I’m over in Crystal Palace for the weekend- any recommendations for pubs/food etc