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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" Moore Bientot|title=A Bientot... <!-- |author=Roger Moore -->|-rating=4| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Entertainment|[[image:summary=The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore Bientot.jpg|left|link=httpsin May 2017 came as a great shock://wwwhe was one of those people you knew would go on forever.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782438610?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagThere was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782438610]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Bientotthe news that a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ''À bientôt…'', to his publishers.Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.. by Roger Moore]]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Maslanka Sherlock|title=Sherlock: The Puzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|rating=4[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyEntertainment|Autobiography]]summary=Who doesn't love a good puzzle, [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]] The news of especially those really fiendish ones that get the brain working extra hard? 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This volume of essays was first published in 2002, and is now reissued with a new foreword by Will Self.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Kyncl_Stream|title=Stream Punks|author==[[Sherlock: The Puzzle Book by Christopher Maslanka Robert Kyncl and Steve Tribe]]=Maany Peyvan|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Entertainment|Entertainment]] Who doesn't love I watch quite a good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that get the brain working extra hard? There really is nothing lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to compare listen to that buzz we get from the Aha! moment, when everything falls into place and the solution reveals itselfa particular song I don't already have in my collection. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish I use it to put your grey cells find out how to do things, with the test with ''The Sherlock Puzzle Book'instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the gym, I'll stick it on on my phone, based prop it up on the popular TV seriescross-trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite shows. [[Sherlock: The Puzzle Book by Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Corcoran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Corcoran_DylanAnd sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784706809?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784706809]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets Having a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and Professors by Neil Corcoran]]===I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the site it until I read this book.}}{{Frontpage[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[JVDK_Swing|title=We Can Swing Together:Category: EntertainmentThe Story of Lindisfarne|Entertainment]]author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5Bob Dylan's award |genre=Entertainment|summary=It all began with a group of the Nobel Prize for Literature youngsters in 2016 North Shields. Rod Clements, Simon 'Si' Cowe, Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition' proved highly controversial. It inevitably led some people in , soon changing the literary world name to take stock and look at his work and reputation with ''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. As a fresh eye. This volume of essays was first published in 2002, US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the name again - and is now reissued ''Lindisfarne'' (with a new foreword by Will Selfthe name taken from an island off the Northumberland coast) was born. [[Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan More than forty years on and with numerous changes of personnel the Poets and Professors by Neil Corcoran|Full Review]] <!-- Kyncl -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kyncl_Streamband is still very much around. 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I play Pop music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don'rarely stands still and it wasn't already have in my collection. I use it to find out how to do things, with long before the instruction videos they seem basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to have for pretty much anything. At the gymexperiment, I'll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the cross trainer with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and watch some behind songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite shows. And sometimes Igroup's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the group didn'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTubet really share his enthusiasm. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Watkins_Lets|title=Let's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in my laptop or squint at Pop|author=Tom Watkins|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=Who on earth would be a small phone screen. So yesmanager in the larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of pop? Anybody with an ego, I like YouTube and I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about ruthless streak, an opportunity to embrace the site chances and accept that it until I read this book's not going to last, evidently.[[Stream Punks by Robert Kyncl Tom Watkins is just one of several to have walked the fine line and Maany Peyvan|Full Review]], for part of the time, quite successfully. As his memoirs suggest, part of the time was achievement enough.}}<!-- JVDK -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Kendrick_Scrappy| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Scrappy Little Nobody|author=Anna Kendrick[[image:JVDK_Swing.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781555893/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Entertainment| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Can Swing Together: The Story Celebrity autobiographies. It's a genre long tainted by the examples of Lindisfarne people who clearly didn't deserve to be a celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book, and by John Van der Kiste]]=== [[image:4those who did so little but managed to churn out five memoirs before they were even thirty.5starBut more recently it's become a way of staking a claim to importance for female comics.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] It all began with a group of youngsters in North Shields. Rod ClementsThey've not all written autobiographies, Simon 'Si' Coweas Bridget Christie proved, Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'', soon changing but enough have to provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at the name to ''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hullbookstore. As a US-based group 2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a similar name they opted to change the name again - GoodReads award, Lena Dunham's been at it, and we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she'Lindisfarne'' (with the name taken from an island off the Northumberland coast) was born. More than forty years on s not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed to make you laugh, and with numerous changes some of personnel the band is still very much around. They might not them that are just don't – but this has to be touring or producing much in the way of new material, but they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of the original members on his fourth stint with the group. [[We Can Swing Togethersame bracket.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ropek_Tragic|title=Tragic Magic: The Story Life of Lindisfarne by John Van der KisteTraffic's Chris Wood|Full Review]]author=Dan Ropek <!-- jvdk -->|rating=4.5|-genre=Entertainment| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:JVDK_ELOChris Wood was a member of Traffic, the group formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group.jpg|link=http://www.amazonA gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, he also played keyboards, bass guitar and contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of the songs and one or two instrumentals. 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Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the basic instruments were seens }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Morris_Legion|title=The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris|rating=5|genre=Entertainment|summary=As much as constraints I like comics – and The BeatlesI do, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began whether superhero ones or not – I have to experimentadmit one thing, with other groups following where they lednamely that the villains in them are a bit pants. Amongst these groups was What is The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop Penguin but the groupworld's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest worst Mafioso, with a hobby of the group didn't really share waddling along like his enthusiasm. <!-pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two- Watkins -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textbit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-align: center;"|[[image:Watkins_Lets.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0753541971/ref=nosimthrough plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold?tag=thebookbagAnd that's just some of the better-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Letknown enemies of ''Batman''s Make Lots , one of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop by Tom Watkins]]=== [[image:4starbetter goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. 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The other was achievement enough. [[Letthe man from Alabama, 's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop by Tom Watkins|Full Review]]wicked Pickett'.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Paling_Reading<!-- Mourby -->|title=Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|-author=Chris Paling| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4.5|genre=Entertainment[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]  | style="verticalI once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. I once declared in a self-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life important way that I would start at the beginning of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]the books for young children and not stop til the end, [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of then do the same for those for the world, older children – ''and then do it all over again with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by regionthem'', I said, which helps to give something of an overall picturepointing at the large-print shelves. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself I hope not'grand' , was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning response – but little me was only aware of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge need for large font for those without friends my fellow whippersnappers, and family conveniently nearbynot for any other reason. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances Since then I've needed libraries, and each faced a different set of challengesgoing to them has been second nature. We begin in On the Americas, move to dole I made sure I could use the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go free Internet they provided to pay me back for the grand. [[Rooms with my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a View: The Secret Life Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!-- Kendrick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kendrick_Scrappy.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471156834/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|her title, and of course, it saved a fortune on books for study and fun. I'm not alone in sharing the warmth of both their heating system and the very thing they were born to provide – books, but there was still a huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes in.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Springsteen_Born|title=Born to Run|author=[[Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick]]Bruce Springsteen|rating=5|genre==Entertainment[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]No, you haven't stumbled into a music review from the 1970s, [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] Celebrity autobiographies. ItI's a genre long tainted m talking about The Boss's autobiography. Lots of books have been written about Springsteen by the examples of people folk who clearly didn't deserve to be a celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their bookknew him, worked with him and by those others who did so little but managed to churn out five memoirs before they were even thirtyhave only read the cuttings. But more recently Over the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he puts it: 's become 'Writing about yourself is a way of staking a claim to importance for female comicsfunny business''. They By his own admission, it isn've not all written autobiographiest the whole truth, as Bridget Christie proveddiscretion holds him back but ''in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, but enough have to provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at show the bookstorereader his mind. 2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham's been at it' ''In these pages, and weI've also got Anna Kendricktried to do this. Now she's not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed '}}{{Frontpage|isbn=JVDK_Beatles|title=A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to make you laugh, and some of them that are just don't – but this has Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to be in the same bracket. [[Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna KendrickAsk|Full Review]]author=John Van der Kiste <!-- Dolby -->|rating=5|-| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Entertainment[[image:Dolby_Sound.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785781952/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Speed You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly, there's been no shortage of Sound by Thomas Dolby]]=== [[image:4books about what went wrong, what happened to the money and even what went right.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:CategoryBut what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' - all those little facts which are so hard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own:Entertainment|Entertainment]] From struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator he's a man with an eye for detail and the ability to university professor, Thomas Dolby has had bring everything together into a remarkable if not unique career, often reinventing himself on very readable whole. It's a wonderful collection of the waysmall facts. This memoir is based }}Move on his extensive notes and journals. to [[The Speed of Sound by Thomas Dolby|Full Review]] <!-- Ropek -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ropek_Tragic.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910773190/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic's Chris Wood by Dan Ropek]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] Chris Wood was a member of Traffic, the group formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, he also played keyboards, bass guitar and contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of the songs and one or two instrumentals. This biography takes its title from the name of one of his compositions for their fifth album. [[Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic's Chris Wood by Dan Ropek|Full Review]] <!-- Morris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Morris_Legion.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1594749329/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History by Jon Morris]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] s much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.[[The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History by Jon Morris|Full Review]] <!-- Fletcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Fletcher_Midnight.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0190252944/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the mid-sixties there were three major names in the soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the singles charts, and Otis Redding was on the verge of shooting into the stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The other was the man from Alabama, 'the wicked Pickett'.[[In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher|Full Review]] <!-- Paling-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Paling_Reading.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472124715/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library by Chris Paling]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] I once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. I once declared in a self-important way that I would start at the beginning of the books for young children and not stop til the end, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and then do it all over again with them'', I said, pointing at the large-print shelves. ''I hope not'', was the response – but little me was only aware of a need for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and not for any other reason. Since then I've needed libraries, and going to them has been second nature. On the dole I made sure I could use the free Internet they provided to pay me back for my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title; and of course it saved a fortune on books for study and fun. I'm not alone in sharing the warmth of both their heating system and the very thing they were born to provide – books, but there was still a huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes in. [[Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library by Chris Paling|Full Review]] <!-- Springsteen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Springsteen_Born.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471157792/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] No you haven't stumbled into a music review from the 1970s, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Lots of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. Over the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he puts it: ''Writing about yourself is a funny business''. By his own admission, it isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind.'' ''In these pages, I've tried to do this.'' [[Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen|Full Review]] <!-- JVDK -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:JVDK_Beatles.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781555826/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask by John Van der Kiste]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Entertainment|Entertainment]] You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly there's been no shortage of books about what went wrong, what happened to the money and even what went right. But what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' - all those little facts which are so hard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with an eye for detail and the ability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. It's a wonderful collection of the small facts. [[A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask by John Van der Kiste|Full ReviewNewest Fantasy Reviews]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |}