I'm currently reading Devil's Fire by Jeffrey R Cox for review purposes.

Shame I lost a few notes when my computer crashed, but I'll get back on track

I recently bought book at a church bring and buy sale. 50p.
It is by George Orwell, I think it must be the first book he wrote when he was 'Down and out in Paris and London.' thats the title of the
book. Written in 1930's.
A great read.

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I'm currently reviewing Rearming The RAF for The Second World War by Adrian Phillips. So far it seems readable and interesting.

Incidentally, earlier this week I gave over £500 (retail) worth of books (read once for review purposes) to a charity collection. - The poor guy could hardly walk down the path with them! Unfortunately, none of my personal connections reads. On the bright side, I now have a little space for some more books.

I am presently reading Dr Kissinger's 'On China'.
It is an utterly first class book, quite un-put-downable. I shouldn't really laugh, but there are some amusing bits in it, (perhaps intentional because Kissinger has a dry, caustic wit). One of the British envoys at the time of the Opium Wars was called by a name which translates in Mandarin as 'laboriously vile." A Chinese Emperor called Britain a "a remote island, filled with red-headed barbarians" and noted that they all wear funny trousers. Palmerston said he didn't want Hong Kong because there was nothing there, "there's not a single house standing there."

Thanks Rebbonk. I'll look it up at some point.

If you have an e-reader, Lex you can get it for free. ( https://b-ok.cc/ ) - You can get rather a lot free there!

That sounds interesting, Rebbonk.

That's fair enough, Lex, we're all different. I've just written a 'stinking' review of a book and the administrator apologised for sending it to me. She was kind enough to send me another as a consolation gift!

I'm currently re-reading 13 against the Bank a true story of a group that took on the casinos and won.

I'm most of the way through the 3rd book in the series - very compulsive reading.

I had a read of 'Checking Out', Rebbonk. I enjoyed it, but wasn't quite my thing.

I'll let you know when I've read it - got a couple of others to get through 1st.

I had a very early copy of that, I really enjoyed it and laughed quite a lot. I look forward to hearing your views.

'Checking Out'. Looks like it's the 1st of his 'lad-lit' series. Thought I'd give it a go & see what it's like.

Which ones did you get, Lex? Rob's recently branched out into the fantasy genre, I'm not overly keen on them but the lad-lit series still makes me laugh like an adolescent schoolboy.

I've finally taken up your Rob Radcliffe recommendation, Rebbonk. Got a couple of books to get through first, but am looking forward to reading the 1st instalment.

I'm still reviewing books. The guy that used to run things has retired and the lady that has taken over seems to like me because I deliver the reviews regularly. She sent me 4 books before Christmas, all historic and only one fiction. I'm learning more about history than I ever did to get my history 'O' level!