I am probably the only person in America to see this book:
and get excited because I thought it was about Ben Elton. It didn’t even cross my mind that it would be about Elton John (nevermind that it doesn’t LOOK like Ben Elton, I only saw the title…plus he has sunglasses [...]
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What I learned… (16) [Misled]
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Nick Laird–Utterly Monkey (2006)
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SOUNDTRACK: MY MORNING JACKET-Okonokos (2006).
[Read: Summer 2006] Utterly Monkey.
I have a huge fondness for British pop lit. If I go back through the years, I can see a vast number of imports: Nick Hornby, Colin Bateman, Hugh Laurie (before he was House), Stephen Fry (while he was acting with Hugh Laurie in the Jeeves and [...]
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