one.eyed.dog Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Just read the last Harry Potter and Marley and me. Am now on Victoria Stillwell "It's Me Or The Dog" Trying to sort my idot dog out. Need some new reading matter. Has Terry Pratchett has much new stuff out in the last couple of years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riley Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Currently reading 'Letters to Alice' by Fay Weldon and it's fab. Have just read 'The Vanishing act of Esme Lennox' - also brilliant Keep meaning to read Lady Chatterleys Lover, Jude the Obscure and The Portrait of Dorian Gray but only vecause I feel I should As for other stuff, I lent Ingipops The Testament of Gideon Mack' and I've not heard from her since (it is a bit odd) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annonymouse Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I'm half way through Pennine Walkies by Mark Wallington. Recently finished Harry Potter which I really enjoyed, and before that Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier fantastic book!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegk68 Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Blue Shoes and happiness (no.7 in the No.1 Ladies Dective Agency Series) by Alexander McCall Smith. I love these. I just discovered them and am reading the whole series back to back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riley Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Blue Shoes and happiness (no.7 in the No.1 Ladies Dective Agency Series) by Alexander McCall Smith. I love these. I just discovered them and am reading the whole series back to back Fab aren't they?? His Scotland street series doesn't have the same effect but it's 'happy' reading - I have them if you would like to borrow them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegk68 Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Fab aren't they?? His Scotland street series doesn't have the same effect but it's 'happy' reading - I have them if you would like to borrow them Thank you Riley, that's lovely of you. I must confess I have them already...I was worried about the end of my No.1 Detective Series and so ordered them in preparation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godin Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Only Fat People Skip Breakfast by Lee Janogly, its a lie I don't skip breakfast and I'm fat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulesB Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I *love* Stephen King. Well. His older stuff. The newer stuff is just too gory for me to deal with The Stand is my favouritest ever Mine too I'm trying to weed out my book collection in case we are moving house, but I'll not be parting with that, or Pet Sematary or the Richard Bachman book he wrote. I'm not reading anything right now but I've stockpiled about 10 books (itching to read them) in readiness for my week's holiday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laura g Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Currently stashed in various spots around the house:- Jasper Fforde - Lost in a Good Book Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Elinor Brent Dyer - Highland Twins at the Chalet School Kelley Armstrong - Broken Various Agatha Raisins. These are the ones i'm actually making an effort to 'read' all the way through. we're bookdealers: have around 8000 books of all shapes and sizes and subjects stashed in the house. I'm always getting sidelined! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandra Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I am reading 'The Songlines' by Bruce Chatwin. It's about aboriginal Australian myth and nomads and hunting and early man. Which makes it sound complicated, but it's a very readable book and full of ideas new to me that keep making my eyebrows leap into my hairline, and funny and sad and amazing anecdotes. If you fancy something a bit different it's brilliant in an off the wall kind of way. Also it's old enough that there are copies on Ebay: I love buying books for 99p! I read that when I was in school, for some special projekt or something, brill book! At the moment reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ,Don't shoot the Dog and Arctic wild. So far the first one is very good and informative and quite sad. Have only just started the other two, most of you will know don't shot anyway, and Arctic Wild has some very good reviews. HAve just read Animals in Translation, animal behavior form an autistic perspective. Interesting in some areas disappointing in others and a bit misinformativce too, even though there are some very good ideas in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laura g Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 At the moment reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee i think it was that guy who wrote 'i will fight no more forever'. can recommend that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scipio Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I have just finished 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy. If you want to read a book this is brilliant, this is it. It isn't difficult to read, but it is desolate and chilling. Some event has happened in the past; you don't know exactly what it is but the earth is covered in ash, there are few living, food is becoming scarce, etc. A father, and the son he is trying hard to protect, are 'on the road', barely surviving. This is their story. Not a comfortable read but it is certainly a book that will stay with you when the last page is read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melp Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Though I love the older Stephen King books best I did think Cell was pretty good. Have just finished Marley and Me and am now reading "Girls Night In", various short stories by authors such as Marian Keys, and um, other people whose names I have forgotten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanrossscot Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Currently stashed in various spots around the house:- Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Elinor Brent Dyer - Highland Twins at the Chalet School Love Ballet Shoes, I dig that one out time and again. AS for Chalet School, I have almost the entire collection (still trying to get the last few) and have an urge to start reading them again now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycas Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I read that when I was in school, for some special projekt or something, brill book!At the moment reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. So far the first one is very good and informative and quite sad. ' Oh, I've read that a couple of times, it always makes me cry. You wouldn't think a history book could be so desperately sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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