April Reading

 

• The Fever : Megan Abbott
• Hold the Dark : William Giraldi
• The Wolf Border : Sarah Hall
• Rebels, Beats & Poets : Jim Burns
• Selected Poems : Tomas Transtromer

+ yet more of David Kynaston’s book about family (and other) life in Britain in the 50s.

 

Those Not Busy Being Born …

What a terrible week it has been. A week that began with 149 people being flown to their deaths against a mountainside and ended with the deaths of three men who, in their various ways, have brought a great deal, not just to my life, which they each illuminated in a number of ways, but the lives of many others – guitarist John Renbourn, born 1944, poet and Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer, born 1931 and artist Albert Irvin, born 1922.

John Renbourn

John Renbourn

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/27/john-renbourn-ceaseless-explorer-of-song-pentangle-folk-appreciation

Tomas Transtromer

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/books/tomas-transtromer-crystalline-swedish-poet-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

Albert Irvin

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/27/albert-irvin

I shall attempt to write more about each of these three men later …