I actually took this picture a few days ago, and, as you may have read here have since given up on Anjelica.
I have owned The Beat Generation Writers for quite some time now but it has been languishing in the cupboard. I recently dug it out to dip back in to. It features Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones, Carolyn Cassady and many others.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver is a re-read. This book is pretty mind-blowing. How Barbara and her family managed to eat locally and sustainably, growing much of their own food, is so inspiring although certainly not practicable for everyone!
Finally I have Margaret Thatcher; The Downing Street Years by my bed. The first ever female British Prime Minister. The Iron Lady. The woman whose beliefs and political will shaped my early life... how could I not want to read this? Maggie Thatcher fascinates me so when I spotted this in the book store I had to pick it up. I read biographies last year on William Pitt (the youngest Prime Minister the UK has ever had) and Queen Victoria so I think I've gotten a taste for books on iconic people wielding political power!
Have you read any of these? Book Club?


