#charles dibdin

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 3.4

Beer Birthdays

George Klotter (1805)

Leonard Eppig (1839)

Jacob Ruppert, Sr. (1842)

Greg Noonan (1951)

Tonya Cornett (1969)

Lucy Corne-Duthie

Adair Paterno

Emily Sauter (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ron Carter; jazz bassist (1937)

Casmir Pulaski; U.S.-Polish revolutionary war general (1747)

Chris Squire; rock bassist (1948)

Antonio Vivaldi; composer (1675)

Johann Wyss; Swiss writer (1782)

Famous Birthdays

Jim Clark; British auto racer (1936)

Evan Dando; rock musician (1968)

Charles Dibdin; English writer (1745)

James Ellroy; writer (1948)

Lolo Ferrari; French porn actor (1962)

Jon Fratelli; rock musician (1979)

John Garfield; actor (1913)

Charles Goren; bridge card expert (1901)

Joan Greenwood; actor (1921)

Milt Gross; comic book artist (1895)

Bernard Haitink; orchestra conductor (1929)

Kevin Johnson; Phoenix Suns PG, politician (1966)

Patsy Kensit; actor (1968)

Ward Kimball; cartoonist (1914)

Adrian Lyne; film director (1941)

Barbara McNair; actor (1934)

Henry the Navigator; prince (1394)

Catherine O'Hara; actor (1954)

Paula Prentiss; actor (1938)

Henry Raeburn; Scottish artist (1756)

Chris Rea; rock musician (1951)

Knute Rockne; football coach (1888)

Bobby Shew; jazz musician (1941)

Alan Sillitoe; English writer (1928)

Bobby Womack; R&B singer (1944)

Adrian Zmed; actor (1954)

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics:

1 thru 10. Old stories rendered into new tongues & clad in new arts.

Tales cast into different multi-media variations.

Joined by novel nightmares just set down into print.

All freely fed into the maelstrom of minds that make up new realities as a form of entertainment!

1914: Part 2, Notes.

1. Since I haven't found the full texts to these articles, I'll be using whatever commentary & quotations I stumble across.

2. I think most everybody is aware of Lovecraft's racist beliefs & his willful propaganda of such foul inequality.

3. Isaac Bickerstaffe was an Irish play & booklet¹⁰ writer.

Isaac was also a Lieutenant in the 5th Regiment of the British infantry. And, he served in the Marines during the 7 Years War.

Weird Shit: Bickerstaffe hurt the production of his own 1st play!

Isaac stupidly criticized David Garrick (The top actor-manager of that time!)- for the 'barbarity' of setting Shakespeare's plays to music...

Bickerstaffe's light opera, "Thomas & Sally," was a huge hit - playing around the British Empire!!

From then on, Isaac's comedic works were also successful. He even wrote the 1st English comic opera, "Love in a Village."

More Weird Bits:

3A. A newspaper falsely stated that Bickerstaffe had committed suicide - by drowning himself in the south of France!

3B. Suspected of homosexuality, Isaac fled to mainland Europe.

There, he lived in poverty & misery.

3C. Then, another false news report claimed that Bickerstaffe had died in Sussex, England.

Yet, he actually disappeared around 1808...

3D. After this disappearance, his 'colleague' (Charles Dibdin) was long accused of selling Isaac's songs - as if they were Dibdin's own work...

4. Howard's love of astronomy started when he was 12 years old.

That was when HPL first found his grandma's books on astronomy in the family's attic library.

Soon afterwards, Sarah (Lovecraft's mom) bought him a small mail-order Excelsior spyglass - for 99¢!!

5. Nostradamus was a French astrologer, pharmacist, physician, writer, translator & 'seer.'

He's best known for his book, "The Prophecies," a poetic work that supposedly predicts the future...

Strangely enough, there's several predictions that seem close to actual events.

Yet, you never hear about the totally wrong predictions.

For example, a shooting war (between Russia & the U.S.) was supposed to have started - in the year 2000 AD...

You don't always get what you pay for!

6. Queen Anne of Great Britain was plagued with ailing health all of her life.

She endured 17 pregnancies & yet, outlived all of her children!!

In doing so, she became the last of the Stuart line of succession.

Painfully shy, Anne learned to assert her authority when it was needed!

It was she who oversaw the union of England & Scotland.

7. Johnathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author, poet, essayist, satirist, political pamphlet maker & the Anglican Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland.

He's best remembered for writing the satiric "Gulliver's Travels."

One of his many pen names was Isaac Bickerstaffe!

But, Swift (a Tory) was permanently exiled ("like a rat in a hole") when the Whigs returned to power - right after Queen Anne's death.

Weird Stuff: Swift wrote his own obituary, a year after 1st showing signs of dementia.

Guardians were appointed due to Swift's violent outbursts - with old friends.

Swift, in great pain, tried to rip out his own inflamed left eye!!

Then, Swift spent a whole year with- out saying a word.

But, thankfully, he finally died.

Following his best friend to the grave - a year late.

8. John Partridge published a popular almanac of astrological predictions.

But, Partridge falsely claimed to know the death dates of various church officials!

Swift, using the pen name of Isaac Bickerstaffe, predicted Partridge's death - in late March of that same year (1708)!!

Then, Swift issued a pamphlet stating that Partridge was indeed dead - contrary to Partridge's own rebuttal!

9. Though the planet Venus is usually thought of as Earth's twin - it's actually more like a complete opposite!!

Venus spins backwards, has a day longer than its own year & lacks any seasons!

It's thought to have once being habitable - about a billion years ago!!

10. Librettos (little booklets) are used to mark detailed scene descriptions in operas, ballets or other musicals.

Next: Part 3, Quotations.

[leanstooneside]

GUNS N' ROSES

◊ crypto Charles Dibdin

◊ mitigated Charles Dibdin

◊ dashing Charles Dibdin

◊ primal Charles Dibdin

◊ conditioned Charles Dibdin

◊ tangible Charles Dibdin

[clove-pinks]

It's mast-heading—I mean Midshipman Monday, and here's a lad cooling his heels in the cross-trees, with a quote from Charles Dibdin's ballad "Poor Jack".

There's a sweet little Cherub sits perched up aloft,

To keep watch for the life of poor Jack

(The Sea Songs of the Immortal Charles Dibdin, 1825)

[marryat92]

A loud peal of the bell summoned up my mother, leaving my father in a state of no pleasant suspense, for he was calculating how far Sir Hercules could bring in "kissing a lady's ladies' maid" under the articles of war as "contempt of superiors," and, if so, how many dozen kisses his back might receive from the cat in return. While he was absorbed in this pleasing speculation, Lady Hercules was pouring out anathemas against my mother's want of delicacy and decency, informing her that it was impossible she could submit the decoration of her person to one who has so contaminated herself with a tobacco-chewing seaman, who was all pigtail within and without; for, as the Scripture says, "Who can touch pitch without being defiled?"

— Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack

'Tars Carousing' (detail), illustration by George Cruikshank for the songs of Charles Dibdin. (x)

[galleryofunknowns]

John Downman (b.1750 - d.1824), 'Portrait of an Unknown Man, sometimes called Charles Dibdin (b.1745 - d.1814)', oil on panel, c.1780s, British, currently in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA.

[handfuloftime]

-- Charles Dibdin, “Tom Bowling”.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Saturday 20 April 1833

7 20

11 10

rather hazy morning fair but dull – F51° at 7 ½ and 44 ¼° at 8 outside my window – breakfast at 9 – Mr. James Norris called at 9 ½ just as I had done breakfast – he sat with my father and Marian while I spoke to Mr. Isaac Thwaite the constable of our town who came (sent for him) to speak about special constables – very civil – gave him the names of Pickels, John Booth, Charles Howarth, and James Greenwood – all to be at the justice room next Saturday at 10 a.m. and Thwaite will get them sworn in – then had Mr. Norris in the drawing room from 10 to 12 ¾ - he came about the coals – told him of the man (no names mentioned) who came the other day – much surprised – the thing had never passed his Mr. N-‘s lips but to Holt and John Mann – told the Rawson-business – quite at liberty to agree with anybody – no objection – nothing said of price – all detail to be left till we had Holt – Mrs. Prescott would sell any property but might lease the privilege of getting coal into her hand for 100 years – whether this privilege to be made to me or not – whether the engine to be erected by me or not to be considered – Mr. N- and Holt to meet here at 10 next Friday morning – the great difficulty would be about the waste – mentioned my long intention of taking it in – thought I had better do it – the presumptive right was in my favour – there having been an inclosure, the lord of the manor was presumed to have got all he had a right to, unless he could prove some right of ownership -

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by stray of cattle or any other means – it would be better to buy it of him – said I would send for him and try what I could make of him but had not much hope – he was always for considering and never deciding – shewed Mr. N- the plan of the estate – thought we could get 1 ½ acre per annum – proposed my being an equal partner with him and Holt – said the thought struck myself and I had at the moment mentioned it to Holt but fancied he (Holt) would rather not – and perhaps I myself was hardly aware of the seriousness of a partnership concern, and being seldom at home, it would be better let alone, but we could consider of this – mentioned all about the upper brea water concern – Mr. N- thinks Joseph Wilkinson the more reasonable of the 2 – shewed the copy of the paper (agreement) and if Mr. N- could get Joseph W- to make a proper lasting agreement I would take the water on lease for old W-‘s life – hope of this – Mr. N- has given up all thought of Upper brea that I shall have no rival in him – told me all about his trial with Wilson about the water – which is sure to be given in his N-‘s favour – advised me not to let Butterworth who is adding to his dyehouse go on spoiling the brook – an action will lie against him now or anytime within 20 years after the erection of the dyehouse – Mr. N- seemed honourable and straight forward – think we shall agree – just told the heads to my aunt but merely about the upper brea water etc. (no mention of coal) to my father or Marian – took Marian into my walk at 1 ½ (the 1

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gate for the hall wood) for an hour – she seemed well enough pleased with it – then at young Charles Howarths and ½ hour asleep in the hut, and then hoeing and sauntering in the walk till came in at 5 ¾ - dinner at 6 – read the preface and the first few pages of Dibdins bibliographical and antiquarian tour in France and Germany – then wrote and sent at 7 note to ‘Christopher Rawson Esquire Hope Hall’ saying I wished to have some conversation with him before my leaving home - hoped to see him here and begged him to be so good as fix any hour on Monday Tuesday or Wednesday or tomorrow evening – then had Pickels – paid him in full his note for the high walling against Godley road, drain, acorn setting etc. etc. £19.6.5 – He and James Greenwood had the 4 thimble-men (gamblers, thieves, who used James G- so ill) and they were committed to Wakefield for 2 months each, and then to find good securities in £10 each or stay 12 months – expense about 26/. warrant 4/. (1/. each person) 5/. to the clerk 11/. to Brierly the constable for taking them ��� 3/. to James Greenwood for 2 half days spent in the business and the same to Pickels himself, and then I shall have some little matter more to pay for all – James G- was frightened and soft about it and wanted not to go before the justices but P- very properly would make him, and says he will harden and be better the next time – I could not have managed without P-  there will be 2 more men up for trespassing next Saturday – Parcel from Mrs. James Briggs this morning letters and bills, but no plan of the quarry – wrote all the above of today till 9 – sent note, too, ‘Mr. Booth Bookseller etc. etc. H-x’ ordered 200 papers against trespassers to be 7/6 – went downstairs at 9 20 – and read the courier and came up again at 10 10 fine day – F53° now at 11 ¼ p.m. note compliments from Mr. Rawson and he will come at 11 ½ am on Monday

[ukdamo]

Inscription by Turner

JMW Turner - from one of his sketchbooks

Love is like the [?raging Ocean]

[?Wind] that sway. its troubled motion

Womans temper ever bubbling

Man the early bark which sailing

in the unblest treacherous Sea

When Cares like Waves in fell [?succession

Frown destruction o’er his days

Orwelming [sic] . . [?crews] in [?traitrous]

Thus [?thru] life we surely tread

[?Recrant] poor or [?vainly] wise.

[?Unheed] bears [‘seeks’ inserted above the bubble Pleasure

which. Bursts in his [?Grasp] or flies.

Many of the early jottings of verse, in this book, the Swans sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XLII) and elsewhere, are concerned with aspects of the sea and the life of those who live by or on it. This parallels a dominant theme of the oil paintings that Turner showed at the Royal Academy in the years around 1800. Turner was friendly with the family of the composer and organist John Danby and he may have intended lines like these to be set to music by Danby and sung by his family. Songs by Samuel Arnold and Charles Dibdin, both organists, are transcribed in the Swans book.

[opera-ghosts]

John Sims Reeves (21 October 1821  – 25 October 1900), usually called simply Sims Reeves, was the foremost English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist of the mid-Victorian era.Reeves began his singing career in 1838 but continued his vocal studies until 1847.  He made his earliest appearance at Newcastle in 1838 or 1839 as the Gipsy boy in H. R. Bishop's Guy Mannering, and as Count Rodolfo in La sonnambula (baritone parts). In summer 1843 Reeves studied in Paris under the tenor and pedagogue Marco Bordogni of the Paris Conservatoire. From October 1843 to January 1844 Reeves appeared in a very varied programme of musical drama, including the roles of Elvino in La Sonnambula and Tom Tug in Charles Dibdin's The Waterman, at the Manchester theatre, and over the next two years also performed in Dublin, Liverpool and elsewhere in the provinces He continued his studies at the Milan Conservatory. His debut in Italian opera was made on 29 October 1846 at La Scala in Milan as Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. In September 1847 he sang in Edinburgh with Jenny Lind  In the same season, in Balfe's The Maid of Honour (based on the subject of Flotow's Martha), he created the part of Lyonnel. In May 1848 he joined Benjamin Lumley's company at Her Majesty's Theatre and sang Linda di Chamounix with Eugenia Tadolini, but he severed the connection when Italo Gardoni was brought in to sing Edgardo in Lucia opposite Jenny Lind.But that autumn in Manchester he sang in Lucia and La Sonnambula, days after Lind appeared in the same works there, and Reeves obtained the better houses. Reeves sang La Sonnambula and Lucia at Covent Garden  In February 1848 he sang Handel's Judas Maccabaeus,  In the winter of 1849 he returned to English opera, and in 1850 at Her Majesty's he made a further great success in Verdi's Ernani, Dublin was followed immediately by Lumley engagements at the Théâtre des Italiens, Paris, where he sang Ernani, Carlo in Linda di Chamounix (opposite Henriette Sontag) and Gennaro in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.[29] In 1851 Reeves sang Florestan in Fidelio  After touring  as Huon, Edgardo and in the title role of Gounod's Faust,   in Dublin, in 1864 he appeared at Her Majesty's in Faust and was especially complimented for the dramatic instinct of Faust's soliloquy in Act I and the superb energy of the duet with Mephistopheles which closes the Act.  Reeves's reviewer in this role remarks on the fine condition of his voice at this date.  In Michael Costa's second oratorio for Reeves, Naaman (first performed autumn 1864), the soloists were Reeves, Adelina Patti (her first appearance in oratorio), Miss Palmer, and Santley. Reeves claimed close and primary association with several of the great tenor leads in the oratorios of Handel and Mendelssohn.  

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 3.4

Beer Birthdays

George Klotter (1805)

Leonard Eppig (1839)

Jacob Ruppert, Sr. (1842)

Greg Noonan (1951)

Tonya Cornett (1969)

Lucy Corne-Duthie (1979)

Adair Paterno

Emily Sauter (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ron Carter; jazz bassist (1937)

Casmir Pulaski; U.S.-Polish revolutionary war general (1747)

Chris Squire; rock bassist (1948)

Antonio Vivaldi; composer (1675)

Johann Wyss; Swiss writer (1782)

Famous Birthdays

Jim Clark; British auto racer (1936)

Evan Dando; rock musician (1968)

Charles Dibdin; English writer (1745)

James Ellroy; writer (1948)

Lolo Ferrari; French porn actor (1962)

Jon Fratelli; rock musician (1979)

John Garfield; actor (1913)

Charles Goren; bridge card expert (1901)

Joan Greenwood; actor (1921)

Milt Gross; comic book artist (1895)

Bernard Haitink; orchestra conductor (1929)

Kevin Johnson; Phoenix Suns PG, politician (1966)

Patsy Kensit; actor (1968)

Ward Kimball; cartoonist (1914)

Adrian Lyne; film director (1941)

Barbara McNair; actor (1934)

Henry the Navigator; prince (1394)

Catherine O'Hara; actor (1954)

Paula Prentiss; actor (1938)

Henry Raeburn; Scottish artist (1756)

Chris Rea; rock musician (1951)

Knute Rockne; football coach (1888)

Bobby Shew; jazz musician (1941)

Alan Sillitoe; English writer (1928)

Bobby Womack; R&B singer (1944)

Adrian Zmed; actor (1954)

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[marryat92]

It may be surmised that British seamen would refuse to be employed against their country. Some might; but there is no character so devoid of principle as the British sailor and soldier. In Dibdin’s songs, we certainly have another version, “True to his country and king,” etcetera, but I am afraid they do not deserve it: soldiers and sailors are mercenaries; they risk their lives for money; if is their trade to do so; and if they can get higher wages they never consider the justice of the cause, or whom they fight for.

— Frederick Marryat, Diary in America

'The Greenwich Pensioner': c. 1790 print illustrating the lyrics to the song by Charles Dibdin.

[vermiculated]

books 2017 so far

wow, tuv want to talk about why you haven’t kept a monthly book list? (because I am scared of my phone and also writing.) no. 

Reiffen's Choice - SC Butler

Flex- Ferrett Steinmetz

The Good Funeral - Thomas Long and Thomas Lynch

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley

The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie

The Invaders - Karolina Waclawiak

Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai

Adaptation - Malinda Lo

The Dream of Enlightenment - Anthony Gottlieb

Central Station - Lavie Tidhar

Why Did I Ever - Mary Robison (vg)

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor (vg) 

The Book of Tea - Kazuko Okakura

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

Unmentionable - Therese O'Neill

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua

IQ - Joe Ide

The Little Virtues - Natalia Ginzburg trans Dick Davis

The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch

Death's Door - Sandra Gilbert

Holy Anorexia - Rudolph Bell 

Hild - Nicola Griffith (vg)

Sum - David Eagleman

Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich trans Bela Shayevich

Everything is Teeth - Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner

Water Dogs - Lewis Robinson (vg)

Selection Day - Aravind Adiga 

The Wicked Boy - Kate Summerscale

Nicotine - Gregor Hens trans Jen Calleja

Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton

Audition -  Ryu Murakami trans Ralph McCarthy

A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman trans Jessica Cohen

Zakhor - Yosef Yerushalmi

Citizen - Claudia Rankine

Blitzed - Norman Ohler trans Shaun Whiteside

Exorcising Hitler - Frederick Taylor

Being A Beast - Charles Foster

The Open Fields - CS and CS Orwin 

Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

The Mistletoe Murder - PD James

The Radius of Us - Marie Marquardt

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Apex Book of World SF 2- Lavie Tidhar ed

Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst

Traitor to the Throne - Alwyn Hamilton

Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown

Pain - Javier Moscoso trans Sarah Thomas and Paul House 

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England - Olive Anderson

The Regional Office is Under Attack - Manuel Gonzalez

The Vanquished - Robert Gerwarth

There is No Good Card For This - Kelsey Crowe

Death, Religion and the Family in England - Ralph Houlbrooke

His Bloody Project - Graham McRae

Violence in Early Modern Europe - Julius R Ruff

Snowblind - Ragnar Jonasson trans Quentin Bates

Today Will Be Different - Maria Semple

Martin Luther - Lyndal Roper

The Young Richelieu - Elizabeth Marvick

History Is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Inheritance - Malinda Lo

Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli trans Simon Cornell and Erica Segre

Long Hidden - Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older

Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Monstress - Marjorie Liu 

This Close to Happy - Daphne Merkin 

The Gin Closet - Leslie Jamison

Bilgewater - Jane Gardam (vg)

Colonial Spirits - Steven Grasse

Fragrant Harbor - John Lanchester

A Cup of Rage - Raduan Nassar trans Stefan Tobler

A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot trans Linda Coverdale

A Long Finish - Michael Dibdin

Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu

Powers of Darkness - Bram Stoker trans Valdimar Asmundsson trans Hans Cornell de Roos

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

Huntress - Malinda Lo

The Night Battles - Carlo Ginzburg trans Anne and John Tedeschi

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih trans Denys Johnson-Davies

Life's Work - Willie Parker

The Mothers - Brit Bennett

We Are Okay - Nina LaCour

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones

Time Travel - James Gleick

Questions of Travel - William Morris, ed Lavinia Greenlaw

Words on the Move - John McWhorter

Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang

Teeth - Mary Otto

Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz

We The Animals - Justin Torres

Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders - Anna Wirz-Justice et al

Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood

English, August - Upmanyu Chatterjee

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie 

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

The Girl Before - JP Delaney

The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent

Half-Bad - Sally Green

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Mr. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Mrs. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis 

Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Plucked - Rebecca Herzing

The Outsiders - SE Hinton

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Mind Your Manors - Lucy Lethbridge

Blood in the Water - Heather Ann Thompson

Blood Rain - Michael Dibdin

The Dry - Jane Harper

History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund

See Under: Love - David Grossman trans Betsy Rosenberg

Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar

Sarong Party Girls - Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser

The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

God's Perfect Child - Caroline Fraser

The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore

Otherbound - Connie Duyvis

Chronotherapy - Michael Terman and Ian McMahan

Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson (vg)

Bright Air Black - David Vann 

Out - Natuso Kirino trans Stephen Snyder

The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Dirty Snow - George Simenon trans Marc Romano and Louise Varese

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

And Then You Die - Michael Dibdin 

Medusa - Michael Dibdin 

Saga - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al 

The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu trans Joel Martinsen

A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume

My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul

Two Women of London - Emma Tennant

Stoner - John Williams

The Crest on the Silver - Geoffrey Grigson

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Oranges - John McPhee

Shrinking Violets - Joe Moran 

The Invisibility Cloak - Ge Fei trans Caanan Morse

The Water Kingdom - Philip Ball

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, vol 1 - Arigon Starr, ed

The Happy Traveller - Jamie Kurtz

Century's End - Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin

Saga vol 2 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth

Back to Bologna - Michal Dibdin

End Games - Michael Dibdin 

What If? - Randall Munroe 

Taft 2012 - Jason Heller 

Saga vol 3 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

Gentlemen and Amazons - Cynthia Eller 

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

God's Philosophers - James Hannam

Ravished - Amanda Quick

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson

The Weapon Wizards - Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot

Death's End - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

Chemistry - Weike Wang (vg)

[quoteclimax]

Charles Dibdin – Then trust me there’s nothing…

“Then trust me there’s nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e’en the valiant more brave.” -Charles Dibdin

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