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cazzyf1 · 4 months ago

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My favourite/interesting quotes from: Jim Clark Portrait of a Great Driver

"One winter afternoon when I was down there Clark explained that we had to listen for an aircraft around 4.0 p.m. as Colin Chapman, his wife and Jimmy's girl friend Sally Stokes were due to arrive. Chapman had never flown to the farm before and I remember raising an eyebrow when Clark explained how he had told Colin to find the farm. "I told him to fly to Berwick-on- Tweed and then along the line of the River Tweed from the mouth at Berwick. When he saw the first red barns on the north side he was to circle the house until he saw signs of life." At 4.0 p.m. we went outside and scanned the skies but there was no sign of action. At 4.20 p.m. there was the distant sound of an aircraft and we gazed at the slowly darkening skies and finally saw it, a speck in the distance flying in the wrong direction. Immediately Clark scrambled into a Ford Galaxie-Chapman's car, actually and we shot down the narrow farm road, through the esses near the main road junction and turned for Berwick. We had just set off and had reached about 70 m.p.h. when the 'plane suddenly turned and flew towards us. Clark flashed the headlights and Chapman dipped the wings in acknowledgement. A hand brake turn and we were zooming back past the farm and up a side road to the edge of a field filled with sheep. Clark whistled on his dog, jumped the five bar gate and lit out after the sheep with the dog at his heels. Between them they rounded the sheep up and sent them off to the far side of the field whilst Chapman made a couple of passes. On the third he almost touched down then flew off. "He's gone to Winfield", said Clark. So it was back into the Galaxie for another dash across country to the disused airfield, sometime circuit where Clark had run in some sprints in the earliest days of his motor sports career. There we pocked up Chapman and his passengers" - p25-27 Graham Gauld

"In general layout the farm had changed little over the years and it had a family ghost. This was the Grey Lady who Jimmy claimed to have seen when he was very young and taken for his mother. But, on the following morning his mother said she hadn't been near his room. Since then a number of people have been visited by the ghost. Once, when Jimmy and I were preparing some notes for his autobiography, we had a wild session with Jackie Stewart and Paddy Hopkirk. As we talked into the small hours it was decided that Stewart and I would share one room, while Paddy slept in another. Jackie and I thought it was all very funny because we believed that Jimmy had put Paddy into the haunted room but in fact we were told in the morning that we had been sleeping in it..." p27 Graham Gauld

"Clark was the world's worst passenger in any car, in any circumstances with any driver! Indeed, I can only think of one occasion in which I drove him, and then he was kind enough not to comment but just smile wanly every so often" - p46 Graham Gauld

"He once remarked that Indy would be "...fine without the Americans" but in time he made a number of friends over there" - p52 Graham Gauld

"Though to the end he was still a kindly person to those whom he allowed into his confidence, he occasionally displayed a petulance and spite which was generally uncharacteristic. To some people he was cruel, but admist this cruelty one felt that Clark was trying to punish himself for being unable to explain himself. Indeed, if he had an unfulfilled wish, it was to be understood by everyone, but to ask that was to ask for the impossible" - p73 Graham Gauld

"During those times it was a very hard job getting him to believe in himself" - p82 Ian Scott Watson

"The little things you remember are his smile, the way his whole face lit up, and his springy walk and the way he bit his nails. He was an incessant nail biter, which completely baffled me; although he had a slightly nervous disposition this completely dropped when he stepped into a racing car" - p90 Graham Hill

"Whenever I was driving he was either biting his nails or fast asleep. When he was awake there was the occasional sharp intake of breath and the odd remark 'For God's sake, look out'. He was a very nervous passenger. It must have been particularly agonising for him to sit beside me doing 800 miles in thirteen hours or so. When he was driving and made the odd mistake he could never understand why I didn't say anything and he used to say 'For God's sake say something' We were just different that is all" - p91 Graham Hill

"In personal matters, he was not a great one for revealing too much, ans he was a bit clam-like which I think may have been a Scottish trait in him? He was canny, and didn't go around saying too much to people. Very often you found out he had been somewhere or done something, which you would have never known about just talking to him" - p92 Graham Hill

"They were called the Terrible Twins, the Poison Dwarfs and many other ames. But at the height of their friendship they were inseparable" - about Jim and Jackie

"It was also at this time that I started to live in John Whitmore's flat in London with Jimmy. From that day on we called it the Scottish Embassy" - p101 Jackie Stewart

"Though Jim led something of a monastic life, I must say that put there he was a real swinger, living a very busy life" - p101 Jackie Stewart

"In fact we spent so much time with one another that we became known at Batman and Robin - and I kept calling him Robin" - p102 Jackie Stewart

"Jimmy Clark was also very nationalistic, indeed we both had this trait and we were quite sincere about it. It really had to be Scottish. If anything came up wherein he was called English he was at pain to correct it" - p103 Jackie Stewart

"When reflecting on the future that Jimmy had in store I feel that he was not going to go back to full-time farming in Berwickshire. He was living the life of an international figure and no matter what might have happened in later years, I don't think he would have returned to Duns permanently. He had become a very sophisticated person. He played pretty hard and his tastes were very high and these he wasn't going to satisfy in Duns. I am sure he would have kept the house and that from time to time he would have loved to go back up there, but I don't think he would ever have gone back and settled down in the way a lot of people would have liked to imagine that he would. This just wasn't on and this is why, when people told me that Jimmy was thinking of retiring, I know that this was not the case. We talked about this a lot but he really didn't know what he wanted to do in the future. He didn't let anyone know what he was doing." - p105 - Jackie Stewart

"He was much more conscious of his personality than most people realised. It you went into a restaurant with Jimmy he did want to be recognised as Jim Clark. He didn't want it from the point of view of people asking for autographs but, like any human being, he did want the benefit of best table" - p107 Jackie Stewart

"His most difficult task in life, however, was making decisions.It was completely incomprehensible to find that someone who was so accurate and definite in his actions in a racing car was so completely inadequate when a decision had to be made outside a racing car. The number of times we have missed dinner because the restaurants have all been closed because Jimmy hadn't made up his mind which restaurant we should go to are legion, and the same is true of movies. One story is so typical of Jimmy. We were coming back from one of the American races and driving along a road where you cross a railway line with a ten mile straight one side and a ten mile straight on the other side. Jimmy is at the wheel of this Ford Galaxie and he gets to the crossing and stops. He looks one way then the other and there isn't a train in sight ten miles one way and ten miles the other then he turns to me and says 'well... what do you think?" He wouldn't dare make a decision without all sorts of drama. " - p107

"He was very keep to read everything said about him, and to make sure that there were no mistakes (this was a characteristic of Jimmy - he was most insistent that even the smallest of mistakes should not be made). He would spend half the afternoon reading sitting on a chair half in hand out of the little office. Sometimes if there were too many people talking in the office he would even shut himself in it" - p120 Gérard Crombac

"He met most of the French drivers in motorracing and the parties he went to were motor racing parties. He seldom went out on his own" - p122 Gérard Crombac

"He was no gourmet but he was becoming one, and he was very fond of French oysters we usually ended up in a sea food place " - p122 Gérard Crombac

"But although he was very generous, he remained the canny Scot of legend and he was not one to waste any money. I remember that he didn't want a house maid in the flat, so if one turned up in the middle of the morning, one might find James Clark Esq., O.B.E, pushing the vacuum cleaner through our living room" - p125 Gérard Crombac

"I thought his rather strong Scottish accent was fading with the time, until an incident when he was invited to patronise the opening of a French pub, which was to be done in style with the help of a pipe band. When Jimmy turned up and realised these people were fellow Scots he started chatting happily with them and I could hardly understand what he was saying as his accent had come back strongly and so suddenly." - p126 Gérard Crombac

"Jimmy's Scottish upbringing had instilled in him a rather restrained attitude towards girls, and I think he was very very shy with them in the early part of his career. But he was also tremendously attractive to them they would come up to him for autographs, and would leave no doubt as to their true intentions. In part he enjoyed this, but I also think he was put off in a way by this ruthless approach, so that he had absolutely no respect for most of them. So as a result, there were times when he wasn't the perfect gentleman." -p126 Gérard Crombac

"There was also a time he found a packet of cigarettes in a tent, gathered a bunch of boy scouts around him and gave them the cigarettes. He then had a picture taken of all these boy scouts lined up a cricket team smoking cigarettes with Jimmy in the middle holding a half gallon of beer." - p136 Bill Bryce

"I think Jimmy drove like a ballet dancer, he had the lightest feet and hands on earth. He had immensely strong shoulders and arms but this was the only part of him that was strong physically. He was a great dancer in motor cars, gentle with them, kind with them and I feel that the reason he was a great driver was that there was always the feeling of participation with the motor car, so the driving almost became sixth sense with him in many cases." - p145 Walter Hayes

"All this stuff about Jimmy the Shepherd with his little flat cap was nonsense. He wasn't a great Shepherd. He liked to go back to the family every so often to rediscover who he was" - p146 Walter Haynes

"When I first met Jimmy he found it extremely difficult to speak in public and he was exceptionally shy about it" - p148 Walter Haynes

"I remember just before his accident, he was talking about his future and what he was going to do when he stopped racing, and he said he finally made up his mind that he wouldn't in fact go back farming. He still loved it, but I think after the excitement and turmoil of racing, flying and the life he had been leading. I think he wanted to settle down in some branch of the aviation business" - p164 Colin Chapman

#classic f1 #f1 #formula one #formula 1 #vintage f1 #jim clark

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hpowellsmith · 28 days ago

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Books of 2024

Here are the books I've read this year; favourites are bolded.

Currently I'm partway through First Class Murder by Robin Stevens, A Blackened Mirror by Jo Graham, and The Grace of Sorcerers by Maria Ying.

January

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed (reread)

Dancing on Eggshells: Kitchen, Ballroom, & The Messy Inbetween - John Whaite

Maw - Jude Ellison S. Doyle

The Easternmost Sky - Juliet Blaxland

The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Toto the Ninja Cat and the Legend of the Wildcat - Dermot O'Leary

Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

February

Regeneration - Pat Barker (reread)

Jojo: Finally Home - Johannes Radebe

The Neighbors - Jude Doyle

Chewing the Fat: Tasting Notes from a Greedy Life - Jay Rayner

Spear - Nicola Griffith

March

Brute (ed. Steve Berman)

Love Kills Twice - Rien Gray

The Salt Path - Raynor Winn

The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker (reread)

Love Bleeds Deep - Rien Gray

Love Burns Bright - Rien Gray

A Love So Dark - Rien Gray

Valerin the Fair - Rien Gray

April

The Wild Silence - Raynor Winn

A Strip of Velvet - Rien Gray

Martis the Brazen - Rien Gray

Seure the Tempered - Rien Gray

May

The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo

Hild - Nicola Griffith

June

Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin

Perfumes: the A-Z Guide - Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez

A Guest in the House - Emily Carroll

July

Saturnalia - Stephanie Feldman

Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw

Vivi Conway and the Haunted Quest - Lizzie Huxley-Jones

Nevada - Imogen Binnie

Gender Failure - Ivan E Coyote and Rae Spoon

Boys Weekend - Mattie Lubchansky

Small Beauty - jia qing wilson-yang

Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin

Darryl - Jackie Ess

August

Henry Henry - Allen Bratton

Landlines - Raynor Winn

October

The Scales of Seduction - Rien Gray

November

The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty - Charlene Elsby

Murder Most Unladylike - Robin Stevens (reread)

December

Arsenic for Tea - Robin Stevens (reread)

From the Belly - Emmett Nahil

Mouth to Mouth to Mouth - wilt

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transnovelsbracket · 1 year ago

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This is the randomly-generated bracket for adult (i.e. non-YA) novels by trans authors! The books are as follows (in order of when I thought of them). Please boost this post! The first round will begin tomorrow, or as soon as I get at least a couple of reblogs on this.

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, Kai Cheng Thom

Little Fish, Casey Plett

Small Beauty, jia qing wilson-yang

She Who Became The Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

Future Feeling, Joss Lake

Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg

Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki

In The Watchful City, S. Qiouyi Lu

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Nevada, Imogen Binnie

Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi

Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor

Yemaya's Daughters, Dane Figueroa Edidi

Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Thirty Names of Night, Zeyn Joukhadar

Machineries of Empire series, Yoon Ha Lee

The Tensorate series, Neon Yang

Sea Witch, Never Angeline Nørth

The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya

The Story of Silence, Alex Myers

Wrath Goddess Sing, Maya Deane

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe

Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey

Darryl, Jackie Ess

The Four Profound Weaves RB Lemberg

Little Blue Encyclopedia, Hazel Jane Plante

Otros Valles, Jamie Berrout

the earthquake room, Davey Davis

The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders

Running Down, Al Hess

#tumblr bracket #tumblr poll #transgender #queer books #queer fiction

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gosh-darn · 16 days ago

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my resolution for this year that i sort of started last year is to read more books because i devoured books as a kid but fell out of the habit around high school. i read a lot right now but it's mostly fanfic which uses different parts of the brain imo. my favorite genre of book is "paranoid man has a terrible time" which is hyper specific but when i find one it rewrites my brain. my absolute fav books are moby dick and house of leaves, you see the blueprint. anyway i wanted to post abt the books i read last year and this year!

Someone Who Isn't Me, Geoff Rickly: august 2023 right after my birthday i took a horrible freelance gig because i had been once again been furloughed from unnamed puppet company. while working that gig i listened to understanding in a car crash on repeat because i was not doing so hot. like a year later i learned geoff had written a semi autobiographical book about doing an experimental psychedelic drug treatment to cure him of his heroin addiction, which is exactly the kind of shit i want to read. i read it in a couple of sittings while on a family trip and really liked it! it's a little navelgazey and 'guy in your mfa'ish but tbh i tend to like that kind of stuff so it worked on me! the part where martin shkreli talks about harambe is sublime.

2 trans2 furious: an extremely serious journal of trangender street racing studies: my coworker who reads a lot read this on a cruise with no internet and then lent it to me. i read it on that same family trip. i have not watched a single fast movie, but i really enjoyed this, i love when trans people are insane about extremely cishet media. this also started a back and forth of my coworker and i recommending books to each other which has been really great! i lent him SWIM after this and he enjoyed it! yippee!!!

Darryl, Jackie Ess: this book made me feel insane. I read the entire second half in a feverish haze one night before bed. darryl is the most insane man in the world and also every man in the world. my coworker lent it to me, and then it spread through the shop like wildfire, each person sending crazed texts to the group chat yelling "DARRYL." i love an epistolary novel and an unreliable narrator. the story is told thru darryl's diary entries where he feeds you scraps of info about his life that have you going "HUH?? WHUH???" the chapters are short enough that you say 'i gotta just read one more to find out what's happening' and then suddenly you've read the whole thing. for several weeks after reading it, every conversation i had became about darryl. HIGHLY recommend.

All of My Cats, Bohumil Hrabal: i read this today and it's the worst i've ever felt in my entire life. 10/10. i thought i was projecting my ocd onto hrabal's constant guilt, and then later he describes checking the oven and the locks in his apartment in prague three times and then a fourth time whenever he leaves, SO. hrabal repeats phrases and stories in a rhythmic and folkloric way that i really enjoy. big tw on this one, this whole book is about killing cats as a form of population control. it is extremely sad, he loves the cats a lot. i enjoyed the book because i love to feel terrible. i recommend it with a huge caveat that you should only read it if you think you can handle it.

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booklovershouse · 2 months ago

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Oiiii, booklovers!

A capa desse post ficou uma vibe meio "Crepúsculo" mas enfim 🤡

Nos outros meses eu reclamei que não tava lendo muito, né? Pois então, em novembro li sete livros - e agr cadê a coragem pra resenhar?

🌑 | Girafas e Açaí - Danielli Jesus (5★)

Júlia tem 13 anos e quer chamar seu crush pra tomar um açaí, mas não tem coragem suficiente. Então, um dia antes do passeio da escola para o zoológico, Júlia tem um sonho estranho com uma girafa expert em romances. E aí, será que ela vai conseguir chamá-lo para tomar um açaí?

Amei que esse livro me lembrou do fundamental. Tenho uma nostalgia enorme dessa época pq quando a pandemia começou eu estava no início do 7° ano e, quando terminou, tava com um pé no ensino médio. Saudades daqueles tempos que não voltam mais...

🌒 | Agnus Dei - Lyta Racielly (3,5★)

Hosannah nasceu em Yaacov e sempre soube que seria chamada para uma missão no Além-Reino. Quando o momento enfim chegou, Hosannah não sabia bem o que fazer, mas deu seu melhor.

Achei legalzinho, mas é bem mais voltado pro evangelismo do que uma história, história. Enfim, é ok.

🌓 | Morte no Nilo - Agatha Christie (4,5★)

Meu primeiro da Agatha Christie. E acho que posso afirmar que prefiro minha duplinha do 221b. Sherlock e Watson já ocupam um espaco muito grande no meu coração para serem superados a essa altura do campeonato.

Linnet Ridgeway, inteligente, bonita e rica (sim, eu amo essa frase de Emma kkkkkkk) casou-se com Simon Doyle, um "zé ninguém" e ex-noivo de sua melhor amiga, Jaqueline. Em sua lua de mel no Nilo, nem tudo são flores: Jackie segue o casal para todo lado e Linnet sente que corre perigo. Então, quando ela é encontrada morta em sua cabine, cabe a Poirot descobrir quem é o assassino.

Não posso fazer comentários sobre minhas impressões da história pq vai ser um spoiler gigantesco, mas talvez quem já leu entenda o que quero dizer. Me senti uma palhaça no final e não foi no bom sentido.

🌔 | Um Milhão de Dates Ruins - Isabela Borrelli (4★)

Já imaginou ficar presa no tempo tendo vários dates ruins?

Amanda não tem quase esperanças de encontrar sua "pessoa certa" para quebrar sua maldição e fazer o tempo voltar ao normal, ainda mais depois de ter vários dates bizarros. Mas a solução pode estar mais próxima do que ela imagina.

Entendi o que a autora quis passar, mas confesso que esperava um final melhor. Acho que é por isso que a nota no Skoob é meio baixa: tivemos nossas expectativas jogadas no lixo kkkkkkkkrying Mesmo assim, gostei da escrita e do estilo da autora.

🌕 | Grama de Vidro - Débora C. Eller (5★)

Eu tava louca pra ler mais alguma coisa da Débora depois de Apenas Mais um Conto em julho, então quase tive um ataque quando vi Grama de Vidro gratuito no Reforme seu Kindle kkkkkkkk

Madu e sua melhor amiga, Carol, estão indo para (mais um) show da Grass of Glass, banda pela qual Carol é apaixonada. No hotel - onde só tem gente podre de rica-, Madu acaba ficando amiga de um cara que conheceu enquanto cantava no banheiro, mas que nunca viu o rosto...como será que essa história vai terminar?

A escrita da Débora estava incrível como sempre, é esse tipo de livro que me faz amar a literatura nacional pq, nossa, é o puro suco do Brasil. Fora isso, me relembrou meus tempos de fã da 1D (One Direction). Foi nostálgico e ao mesmo tempo triste. Maaaas, eu simplesmente amei o nome da banda, achei genial! Tipo, ✨Grass of Glass✨

🌖 | Voz de Âmbar - Débora C. Eller (4,5★)

Esse aqui é um spin-off do livro anterior (o pov do mocinho de uma das cenas), então só leia depois do primeiro.

🌗 | Três Fatias de Amor - Ana Souza (3,5★)

Débora nunca imaginou que trabalharia como garçonete em sua pizzaria preferida, até espalhar currículos pela cidade e não receber nenhuma resposta positiva. Ela logo faz amizade com Mateus, um dos garçons da pizzaria e agora eles precisam lidar com os sentimentos que estão começando a surgir...

Na minha humilde opinião, esse caiu naquela velha reclamação que faço: a autora não soube quando parar. Acho que a história se estendeu demais, o que deixou meio entediante em alguns pontos. E confesso que não fui com a cara da Débora.

Enfim gnt, foi isso, sorry pelo post quilométrico kkkkkkkkk

Bjs e boas leiturasssss <333

#livros #leitura #livrosderomance #books & libraries #leitores #books #books and reading #livros nacionais #leituras do mês

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