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Bookwomble
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Pickpick

It helped that while reading this book, I had Alexei's voice in my head, from deranged apoplexy to soft thoughtfulness. He's humorous, but as with much comedy adapted from standup routines, it's infinitely better hearing it being performed, so I again recommend checking out his radio show 📻🤣
#AntifaBookClub 🚩🏴

The_Book_Ninja It‘s uncanny, he is the spit of my old landlord Jerzy Balowski 5d
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Now you mention it, he also has a look of Harry the Bastard from our local Rumbelows! 5d
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble Not the bloke who‘s always eating Pot Noodles? 5d
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Bookwomble
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"Here, I'll tell you what I hate - Fascism! I can't stand it, me, I think it's really, really terrible. I do. I think it's bang out of order. That's just me, though. You might like it, you might think it's OK. Indeed, you might be a fan of radical authoritarian nationalism but I think you'd be wrong."
[Said in a loud, thick Scouse accent, softening to a matey tone, one eyebrow raised ?]

How to respond to Reform UK and MAGA ??s
#AntifaBookClub

AmyG I hate Fascism! 6d
lil1inblue 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 6d
CarolynM Ah the memories… I miss the political comedy of the 80s 4d
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Bookwomble
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"John Maynard Keynes said, "When the facts change, I change my opinion." But when you're in a cult, when the facts change, you change the facts! To the end of her life my mother would never admit that there was anything wrong with the Soviet Union. The most she would admit was, "Mistakes were made." But as she used to say, "You can't make an omelette without murdering forty million people.""

Bookwomble Alexei wrote this in 2017. The linked article is from the same year. Both, sadly, even more relevant now:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/a-lesson-for-trump-from-stalin-lies-...
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TieDyeDude 😞 6d
Cuilin 🫩 6d
Ruthiella ✊✊✊ 6d
AnnCrystal ...😢... 6d
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Bookwomble
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I love Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar radio show. There isn't much Marxist comedy on the BBC (or anywhere else, probably!), so where else am I going to get ideologically sound laughs? ✊🏻🚩😂
Most of all, he's funny, and if you need some dark, absurdist humour in your life, I encourage you to listen to Alexei:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b084bmn9?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

The_Book_Ninja Protect Alexei at all costs! 6d
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Bookwomble
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#BookHaul
Back home, and my trip to Didsbury netted me these six tomes, five from EJ Morten and one from a well-stocked Oxfam ( @rwmg that's the Judge Dee 😊).
I set a budget, I kept to the budget: winning at life! 💷📚🏅🏆👏🏻🫠👏🏻

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja My book purchases 📚😊 6d
rwmg 😁 6d
AnnCrystal 🤩👍🏼📚💫. 6d
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TheLudicReader
Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay
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@Chrissyreadit #tagyoureit

Well, this book has boats. It was my first Elizabeth Hay and I remember liking it a lot…as I have liked all the other books I have read since.

Chrissyreadit 🎉💛🎉💛🎉💛 2mo
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Jess861
Radio Girls | Sarah-Jane Stratford
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Pickpick

Good book about the BBC in the 1920s and the start of radio. Also a bit of an espionage book but I enjoyed learning about early BBC and the radio the most. To think the radio was scary for some is interesting to think about when looking at the technology we have today. This book had more dialog in it than I'm used to - but it suited the book well. Seems like it is slow moving but the years are passing by in the story. Overall I enjoyed the book.

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Jess861
Radio Girls | Sarah-Jane Stratford
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We were supposed to be doing a Lilo and Stich movie night but our youngest decided she wasn't in the mood for a movie. So now our eldest and dad are watching one of the Jurassic Park movies, our youngest is playing with her paw patrol toys in her room and I get to sneak in some backyard reading with this book! Hoping I get to learn a bit about the history of BBC and the radio.

Texreader Bonus time!! 2mo
Jess861 @Texreader It'll probably last 5 minutes 🤣 2mo
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SconsinBookyBadger
Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador's Radio Venceremos | Jose Ignacio Lopez Vigil, Josc) Ignacio Lc3pez Vigil, Jos Ignacio Lpez Vigil, Josa(c) Ignacio La3pez Vigil
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My #Roll100 books for April. 🎲 24 and 🎲 36 are pending library holds. 🎲 16 is probably going to be purchased since it‘s not at any library branches or libby.

@PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper Library holds are so unpredictable. I've had one on hold since Christmas 5mo
SconsinBookyBadger @PuddleJumper my brick & mortar library is quick on interloans, libby on the hand is slow pace even with available soon ebooks or audio 🐌 5mo
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merelybookish
Late Nights on Air | Elizabeth Hay
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I'm at odds about this book. On one hand it is gently interweaving multiple story threads with patience and care.
On the other hand it includes lines like this:
"His penis was more narrow than wide, more O Henry bar than chocolate slab, more spring rhubarb than autumn gourd, more canoe than motorboat." ?????
Which might be one of THE worst sentences I've ever read in a novel.
So...a real toss-up right now. ?

Aims42 😳😖😳😖😳😖 6mo
Soubhiville Well that‘s bizarre. 6mo
kspenmoll What?!😳 6mo
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Leftcoastzen 😵 6mo
willaful *boggle* 6mo
Ruthiella 🤮🙄😳 6mo
BarbaraBB 🤣🤣 love the accompanying photo 🤣🤣 6mo
Cathythoughts Yuck 🤮 I‘m staying away from this one. 6mo
CSeydel Whoa, that‘s a sentence I can‘t unread 6mo
Susanita That‘s pretty bad 🤣🤣 6mo
Anna40 Why oh why? 6mo
OrangeMooseReads That line gives me the ick lol 6mo
youneverarrived 🙈😂😂 6mo
sarahbarnes That is…so bad. 😆😆😆 6mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Thanks for sharing that sentence 🤣 I think I‘d take it as my sign to DNF 6mo
merelybookish @aims42 @soubhiville @kspenmoll @leftcoastzen @willaful @ruthiella @hooked_on_books Definitely a sentence that inspires a lot of emojis! And disgust. 😂 6mo
merelybookish @barbarabb seemed better than an Oh Henry bar. 😆 6mo
merelybookish @cathythoughts A wise decision! 6mo
merelybookish @CSeydel Oh, it's bad! Perhaps I should have provided a trigger warning. 6mo
merelybookish @susanita @anna40 @youneverarrived @sarahbarnes It's like one of those comparisons would have been more than enough to gross me out... but three???? 6mo
merelybookish @thegirlwiththelibrarybag Yeah, this is the dilemma. I'm more than halfway and I'm slightly interested in the storyline. So not sure I'm ready to DNF just yet. (Instead it will probably become a hate read.) 6mo
TheLudicReader Dear Lord, I have no memory of that. 🤮 6mo
quietlycuriouskate Oh dear God.... and I still haven't forgotten the penis/seahorse image in The English Patient! 6mo
merelybookish @TheLudicReader This is one of the downsides of audiobooks. Harder to ignore or not hear terrible prose. 6mo
merelybookish @quietlycuriouskate Oh God, I wonder if it's a Canadian thing. 😒 6mo
Reggie Lololololololololol 6mo
merelybookish @Reggie exactly!!! 😂 6mo
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