Nick M
@plodinnotts.bsky.social
Book hoarder, woke, old but working (mentally) when you've always wanted to be TC, occasionally had moments of being Choo-Choo but were actually Benny The Ball all along. If antifa existed, I'd join
#booksky #books 6227 Penguin 6824 Summer Crossing / Steve Tesich (1984) far rom tender first love takes young Daniel away from his pre-ordained stultifying life in uninspiring Chicago boondocks into a different and more dangerous milieu in pursuit of the irresistibly exotic and bewildering Rachel
January 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
#booksky #books 6226 Penguin 10214 Split Images / Elmore Leonard (5th post-1988) Palm Beach millionaires didn't get that way by being model citizens but few enjoy shooting people as a hobby and getting away with it - though it helps when the cop on the case chooses to help you with your next target
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
#booksky #books 6225 Penguin 12276 Do It Again / Martyn Harris (1990) you can never go back so a middle-aged man heading back to his student haunts to try and recapture the spirit ad enthusiasms of his youth is bound to be a sad failure - but also very funny in an occasionally wince-inducing way
January 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
#booksky #books 6224 Penguin 9887 52 Pick-Up / Elmore Leonard (1988) movie tie-in edition (a Golan/Globus disaster) for a slice of subterranean Detroit life where the going-rate for extramarital blackmail is a mere 52 grand which - even today - would go a long way in what remains of the Motor City
January 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
#booksky #books 6223 Penguin 10017 Touch / Elmore Leonard (3rd post-1988) that'll be the healing touch as possessed by Juvenal who's also got stigmata & a lot of Detroit after him : priests who want his powers for their charges, conmen who want to make a fortune out of miracles - but how real is he?
January 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM
#booksky #books 6223 Penguin 10017 Touch / Elmore Leonard (3rd post-1988) that'll be the healing touch as possessed by Juvenal who's also got stigmata & a lot of Detroit after him : priests who want his powers for their charges, conmen who want to make a fortune out of miracles - but how real is he?
#booksky #books 21117 Penguin 23478 The Law Machine / Marcel Berlins and Clare Dyer (3rd post-1994, internet £1.51) this will be outdated now - in ways (double jeopardy) that lay-people realise & many others we don't. What's still true is that the court system was terminally brutalized by austerity
January 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
#booksky #books 21116 Penguin 10239 Pack Of Cards / Penelope Lively (5th post-1987, internet £1.91) "complete short stories" all 34 of them very short but of the highest quality - wry, deeply understanding of humanity, not judgmental, just accepting as the rhythms of diverse lives move on
January 1, 2026 at 11:01 AM
#booksky #books 21115 Portraits Of The Past / Richard Muir (Michael Joseph 1989, internet £1.51) from the original colonizers of a land of wild beasts and forests to the manicured exclusions of Georgian enclosure - people shaping the landscape by direct action and indirect lifestyle choices
January 1, 2026 at 10:36 AM
#booksky #books 21114 Penguin Handbooks 326 The Penguin Guide To Ancient Egypt / William J Murnane (7tth post-1983, internet £1.51) the deep past keeps changing with discoveries and scientific advances but the surviving stones remain, well-presented here in Thames and Hudson artbook format
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
