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Indlæser... Between the stops : the view of my life from the top of the number 12 bus (udgave 2019)af Sandi Toksvig (Forfatter)
Work InformationBetween the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus af Sandi Toksvig
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. It’s probably a sign that a book is five stars when you go buy the audio version three chapters in because you know you’re going to want to read this again. This is the perfect format for Sandi to tell her life story: an unusual framework (the route taken by the Number 12 bus in London, with each chapter being one of the stops) that allows her the opportunity to tell selected bits of her life and a lot of history alongside. This book was published in 2019, so I have heard a few of Sandi’s stories before (e.g., how she was standing with Neil Armstrong’s secretary while the Apollo 11 crew were walking on the moon) because she’s since told them on QI. But I always enjoy hearing Sandi’s stories, no matter how many times she tells them. ( ) This memoir of gentle humor may only be interesting to fans of Sandi Toksvig or people who know London well. She loosely uses travel on the Number 12 bus to share memories and musings. She spends quite a bit of time noting the absence of women being memorialized in street names and monuments, but I think this obsession is somewhat misplaced. In my humble opinion, men often need this kind of ego reinforcement, but women just get on with the job. "The long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off" - well perhaps, and Sandi has certainly been busy with other projects - writing novels, plays, giving talks, and appearing on TV. The wait was worth it although not everyone will like the format of Sandi's book. If you do not care of the imbalance of women in just about any public role (well except for female detective shows which this book does not cover - but does seem to be a thing at the moment). Sandi travels by the no 12 double-decker bus on the top at the front on the RHS - say Hi if you see her. At each stop of the no 12 bus, Sandi explains what has happened over history at this spot, she has been able to add information about herself, her family, schooling, growth in her sexuality, the variety of public events she has been involved in and how she started out in the theatre. I enjoyed this memoir very much for as it is as much a guidebook as a memoir, I think I will be carrying this when I next travel to the UK, and I will sit on the top of the no 12 double decker bus, and stopping off at those points of interest Sandi has written about and thank you - done the research for us already. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London where I was living, to where I sometimes work at the BBC in the heart of the capital. It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but it's the way things pop into your head as you travel, so it's my way. From London facts including where to find the blue plaque for Una Marson, 'the first black woman programme maker at the BBC', to discovering the best Spanish coffee under Southwick railway arches; from a brief history of lady gangsters at Elephant and Castle to memories of climbing Mount Sinai and, at the request of a fellow traveller, reading aloud the Ten Commandments; from the story behind Pissarro's painting of Dulwich Station to performing in Footlights with Emma Thompson; from painful memories of being sent to Coventry at a British boarding school to thinking about how Wombells Travelling Circus of 1864 haunts Peckham Rye and anecdotes about Prince Charles, Monica Lewinsky and Grayson Perry; from Bake-Off antics to stories of a real and lasting friendship with John McCarthy, to the importance of family and the daunting navigation of the Zambezi River in her father's canoe; this Sandi Toksvig-style memoir is, as one would expect and hope, packed full of surprise. A funny and moving trip through memories, musings and the many delights on the number 12 route, Between the Stops is also an inspiration to us all to get off our phones, to look up and to talk to each other because as Sandi says: 'some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'. No library descriptions found. |
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