Maybe try an autobiography? It’ll help the believeability presumably. Depends who/what you’re interested in though
Not quite an autobiography but this is a great read if early punk is your thing… https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/please-kill-me-book-legs-mcneil-9780802125361
A couple of mostly highly amusing books worth reading imo... Not an autobiography, but Melvyn Bragg did wonders with Richard Burton's notebooks... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444789163/?tag=not606-21 plus... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0712657681/?tag=not606-21 Also, a few bad boys in the following... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1848090188/?tag=not606-21
I'd second Chicken hawk and also recommend Apache by Ed Macy. It's about the use of Apache helicopters in Afghanistan from the perspective of the pilots and it recounts the story of the famous Apache rescue mission of a wounded infantryman that has recently been covered on a TV show
Best autobiography I've read for a while was O Brother by John Niven. If I was holed up in a country cottage in autumn I'd recommend a Kevin Barry novel, The Heart in Winter or Night Boat to Tangiers.
Recently re read Robinson Crusoe , To Kill a mockingbird my o level book and a fe Dickens classics long but good reads .
While I haven't read a book in a number of years due to lack of spare time/different priorities with available time, I've taken to listening to audiobooks while out of the house. Walking the dogs, exercise, that sort of thing. Recently, following enjoying 3 seasons of Foundation on tv, I downloaded the audiobooks for the Asimov Foundation trilogy with the ongoing plan to read the whole related series in published order. Very much enjoying book one, but it is totally unrecognisable to the tv series. I knew they'd used a little artistic license, but its a complete re-write. This isn't a bad thing, reading the books second though as it's all new with just enough recognisable to make the concepts easier to latch onto quickly.
Cheers for this, hadn’t heard about these short stories but will check them out now. Read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ about 50 years or more ago and it’s still one of my favourite books, so much so that our black lab girl is called Scout. Also read ‘Go Set a Watchman’ when it came out, which I did enjoy but not to the same degree.
Just finished a biography about a famous artist (painting and etching) who was embarrassed when his mother bought a second class ticket from Hull to Preston (Lancs). Can anyone guess the artist?
Sorry, it wasn't Hockney. I was surprised he and his mother stood on Paragon Station when I read the book. A tribute to one of his most famous paintings is in this year's Ferens Open.
I rarely look at this thread so apologies for not responding sooner. Like French, Spanish has two words for 'you', one for formal and one for informal use. The closest I can think of in English would be the excessively formal 'Would Sir like to see the wine list?' 'May I take Madam's coat?' I believe that Hemingway was fluent in Spanish and is attempting to reproduce in English the Spanish informal 'tu' rather than the formal 'usted'. I doubt that he thought that all Spanish republicans came from Sheffield. More Barcelona than Barnsley, I think. I hope this helps, that you were able to finish the book and that you enjoyed one of the finest war novels ever written. I can also recommend the film which is faithful to the novel, except that the Swedish Ingrid Bergman is hopelessly miscast as Johnson's (Gary Cooper's?) Spanish love interest.
