First, some news: Friendship Games has a preliminary release date: February 21st! Knock on wood! Audiobook a little later, in March or April 2023.
U2 has a new album coming in March. It isn't an album of new material; rather, it comprises 40 "re-imagined" songs from their discography. The album coincides with Bono's recently published (and very good) memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. (I'll write and post my review soon).
Fragile, by Ian Wong.
Looking forward to U2's forthcoming album Songs of Surrender where they "re-imagine" 40 songs from their discography. Snippets from Bono's book Surrender are promising. But this, "Pride (In the Name of Love)", their first release from Songs of Surrender, is NOT reassuring.
I've never been a reader of poetry. But I do dabble here and there. As a Geographer, I am more keen on poetry related to place. I am partial to the poetic writings of Yi-Fu Tuan, for instance, though I haven't seen any actual works of poetry by him.
This is one I don't recommend. Anthony Keidis is a lifelong jackass. And a privileged one at that. Abusive of women, friends, his bandmates and, of course, drugs. I read all the way through hoping for a redeemable quality or epiphany.
I vividly remember the flag of the USSR coming down at midnight on Christmas night in Moscow, in 1991, and the tricolor flag of Russia rising in its place.
Benjamin Netanyahu's book was really good in the beginning. His life's story, and that of his family, is interesting and compelling. His early military career was also fascinating; he was very young and served as a commando in "the Unit" from age 18 to 23, and was almost immediately called back to duty for another year for the Yom Kippur War....
New York Times bestselling author Blaine Lee Pardoe (Battletech series, Blue Dawn series) invited me onto his podcast yesterday to talk about Alter Road, and the forthcoming Friendship Games.
