Book group last week we discussed American Pastoral by Philip Roth. Usually each book has someone who didn't finish it, this week it was me: I barely started it. I just couldn't stomach another Great American Novel about the 60s. Anyway, the rest of the group were split between the ayes and the nays.
I have been reading Stuart Maconie's Pies and Prejudice about the North of England. As he is from Wigan and I am from Preston there are plenty of chords to be struck. A good read, but a bit sloppy at times.
The photo is of The Red Tower: part of the York City Walls. Built in the 1400's it is made of red brick - this caused consternation [and murder of a brick-layer by a stone mason] when it was built in brick instead of stone.
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