The Book Tower

There’s a possibility that I might be renaming and moving this website as I’d like to use the domain name for something else I have in the pipeline. The problem is, I’ve really been having trouble trying to think of a new name. For about five seconds I thought about using Fully Booked, which ties in with my recent commitment to reading challenges. But I think this is (or was) a Saturday morning children’s programme, and I also think it’s a name I could quickly tire of.

Looking around, it appears to me that every conceivable name for a blog has already been used (I’m only counting the inoffensive and sane here). So if anyone can come up with any suggestions, I’ll be eternally grateful – and if I like anything so much as to actually use it I won’t rule out giving a small token of my appreciation…

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This is from Kate’s Book Blog. It’s all about the process of becoming a reader and our earliest reading experiences. Questions by Kate, answers by me.

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As I get deeper into Dominic Sandbrook’s White Heat I’m inspired to do various sixties-related things:

Watch episodes of The Avengers.
Listen to various classic albums of the decade – The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society is on in the background as I type.

I’m still only about a third of the way through this book. There’s a lot more on The Beatles as I plough on, although it’s clear that Sandbrook is a McCartney fan. And he doesn’t like Lennon. Commenting on The Fabs’ LSD intake:

Although McCartney and Starr, the more down-to-earth members of the band, were always rather suspicious, Lennon became a great fan. LSD suited his self-pitying, self-indulgent and pretentious personality…

At least he does try to redress the McCartney/Lennon balance, tipped more and more unfairly towards the latter since 1980, and I’m all for a straight 50/50 in this redress. They were equally gifted. Yes?

I’m racing to get through White Heat because I want to get on with Brave New World. I’ve read the first couple of chapters and it’s surprising how fresh the writing is. It reads to me like the sort of dystopian vision that Margaret Atwood would be producing now.

Brave New World is number one in my From the Stacks reading challenge. I’m also aware of my pledge to read a percentage of the 1001 Books in the next year. Managed to find a second hand copy of Lord of the Flies only this afternoon…

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