Back in 2024

 Well, after a little thought, I have decided to move back to this blog as it is just for me now I will be blogging. I had previously blogged at winstonsdad for the last 14 years but have now retired that blog and set off on a new adventure with the blog. Which I had started in 2009 but never used as it has always just been a backup to my old blog . But I just want a blog that isn't just what winstonsdad had become. I felt I had end up in a funk blog wise. 

Hello

Well I've done it I'm swapping blogs I have previously blogged elsewhere and had a completely different focus this blog is a new start and a smaller blog than before 

solar by Iain Mcewan

The book follows Michael Beard a nobel winner in his early life after refining a Einstein idea .the book structure falls in to three parts following Beard over the new millenium we first meet him 2000 with a falling marriage and embarking on a trip to the arctic with artist and fellow scientists like McEwan did him self ,the middle section finds him back in england on committees and having affairs and with an increasing waist line .the final section in the near present dat finds beard in america still having affairs ,eating loads and being accused of idea theft after stealing an idea for a photo cell . In this book McEwan has come up with one of the most dislikeable characters i ve ever read a cheater ,lazy ,greedy and liar of a man ,some one who had great promise early in his career but has gone down the wrong path .Now I know a lot of people are going to dislike this book but i loved it i think McEwan has manage to update what was the morality play of years past and transferred it to encapsulate the current state of the world with beard being modern society using all the resources without a thought for the future .the chaos on the ship in the arctic reflects the arguments of nations in my opinon .If you like science you ll love this .

"He belonged to that class of men -vaguely unpreposseing ,often bald ,short , fat , clever – wno are were unnaccountably attractive to certain beautiful women . or he believed he was ,and thinking seem to make it so …."

the opening of solar and meeting Beard .

i m back !

i started this blog a while ago and haven't used it a lot ,well thats going to change .i m here to stay now bringing the best in modern fiction to one and all .

leviathan by philip hoare

the winner of this years samuel johnsons prize for non fiction .the book is a history of mans encounters with whales .hoare mainly talks about new england whaling industry and melville .the writing style is similar to w g sebald as like sebald hoare gives you small snippets of information at a time .he describe the rise and orgins of whaling ,how it settle in new england and whitby in the uk .the way melville went to sea and fianlly himself to go out and view whales in the wild .i really enjoyed this book it was well research and hoares prose are clear and to the point

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HI MY NAME IS STUART THIS IS MY BLOG .I LL CALL IT A ARTS BLOG AS I READ A LOT LISTEN TO MUSIC AND WATCH FILMS .I M FROM CHESTERFIELD