THE DONSTALK BOOK CLUB

[RicoS321]

I'm reading Don Quixote if anyone wants to know. 

[blinlemon]

21 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

I'm reading Don Quixote if anyone wants to know. 

“KI-hOAtay” rhyming with “photie” and onomatopoeia for clearing phlegm fae yer throat, or “KwixOaty” like “a ready-made breakfast cereal”?

A long-standing debate in the Bilermakers. 

[2stars]

On 01/05/2026 at 20:45, RicoS321 said:

I'm reading Don Quixote if anyone wants to know. 

Let me know how you get on with that- been something been on my list to read for years 

[RicoS321]

10 hours ago, 2stars said:

Let me know how you get on with that- been something been on my list to read for years 

I've read it afore, it's good, if you like that sort of thing. Like all the best books, it's quite accessible, with no horrendously long chapters, so even if you have a phone-addled attention span you can pick up and put down with regularity! It was only £5 in the rosemount bookshop, so it's fine to have in the hoose.

14 hours ago, blinlemon said:

“KI-hOAtay” rhyming with “photie” and onomatopoeia for clearing phlegm fae yer throat, or “KwixOaty” like “a ready-made breakfast cereal”?

A long-standing debate in the Bilermakers. 

It has to be photie-rhyming. I've been to Spain in athin. 

[swaddon]

Nik Kershaw sings it as "KI-hOAtay" in his hit song of the same name.

[KGB]

On 01/05/2026 at 20:45, RicoS321 said:

I'm reading Don Quixote if anyone wants to know. 

I read it a couple of years back and enjoyed it. I found a lot of it very amusing 

[TheDonbytheDee]

Et Tu Cavapoo - A Dog's Life in Rome by Mark Radcliffe

Thought I would hate this and only took it out as I like Mark Radcliffe. 

Tells the story of his 12 week stay in Rome, back in 2024, with his Wife and Cockapoo 'Arlo'.

I quite liked it, but what I did hate about it is all that review shyte over the cover of it, quoting people like Lauren Leverne and Sarah Cox, amongst others, telling us how great it is. 

Stephen May - We Don't Die of Love

I took this one out, as the auther has the same name as a guy I went to school with!

Was about a 58 year old bloke who's wife tells him one morning she is leaving him after 31 years of marriage, for a younger man.

I actually quite liked it. A nice easy read

 

On to Jamaica Inn now...

[TheDonbytheDee]

On 08/05/2026 at 15:02, TheDonbytheDee said:

Jamaica Inn 

A very good book. No real dips in the writing quality from beginning to end.

Books like that are rarer than hens teeth. 

Going to the try the TV adaptation of it from a few years back. The one where people claimed you couldn't hear the actors speak. 

[Goldie03]

I'm reading Capitalist Must Starve - set in 1930s Japanese occupied Korea.

 

[swaddon]

I'm reading Alex "Hurricane" Higgins's autobiography.

He doesn't hold much back, and is brutally honest about his failed marriages and relationships.

I haven't yet got to the part where he tells Dennis Taylor that he is going to have him shot.