This week on Trapped By Monsters, the Ash Mistry books by Sarwat Chadda.
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October 9, 2013
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Over the last month I’ve been listening to a lot of music I’d never heard before. I’ve been introduced to the work of artists including Alfred Schnittke, The Wu Tang Clan, Pere Ubu, Joe Meek, Elliott Smith, Quincy Jones, Pete Seeger, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Laurie Anderson, Run DMC, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gram Parsons, Steve Reich and Eric B. & Rakim. I’ve heard more from artists I thought I already knew including David Bowie, Gil Scott-Heron, Nick Drake, Max Roach, Brian Eno, Charles Mingus, John Renbourn, Ballake Sissoko and Johann Sebastian Bach. I’ve heard the Sounds of the Sahara, the Voice of the Atlas Mountains and Shangaan Electro from South Africa; through music I’ve travelled to Argentina, Nigeria, Turkey, Russia and other places in time and space.
How? My local library.
It’s possible that, eventually, I might have found all this amazing music on my own – but at the library it was easy, fun and cheap. This was because I knew that everything there was chosen with care.
I am lucky to live in a place where libraries are considered important. Do you?
August 6, 2013
Back at Trapped By Monsters this week, a meaty dose of Golden Age SF.
July 22, 2013
Interested in some reading recommendations? I’ve just updated my LibraryThing Review Page with most of a year’s worth from Trapped By Monsters. All the books listed there you can read for free (or for a nominal ordering fee) at your local library – if/while you’ve still got one.
June 20, 2013
The Greatest Escape?
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A thunderous THANK YOU to the staff and students of The Market Bosworth School for the warm welcome they gave me yesterday. As often happens at my school events, I was asked to name my favourite book. I have lots. Here’s one:
At Trapped By Monsters this week, my final Great Escape is Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki.
May 31, 2013
Penultimate TBM Great Escape: Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey.
May 4, 2013
Latest TBM Great Escape: The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Juan Gimenez.
Also: if this week’s Pacific Rim trailer has whetted your appetite for some giant monster destruction, there’s a certain book of mine that you might enjoy too if you haven’t read it yet. ;D
April 19, 2013
This week’s TBM Great Escape: Porcelain by Benjamin Read and Chris Wildgoose.
April 11, 2013
Just up on Trapped By Monsters: some thoughts on escapism, a hint about my next few posts there and three more images like this…
It’s from a book called Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss. Take a look.