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I'm still ploughing (for want of a more apt verb) my way through Michael Palin's Diaries 1972-79. He's as engaging an author as he is a travel presenter, and the book serves as a social history of the seventies as much as anything else. All the Monty Python stuff is really interesting as well, though, especially to a Python nut like myself. I think non-fans would find this book a really good read as well though.

I've got two books on the go at the moment 'The Shakespeare Secret', which I will finish on my journey to work tomorrow and 'The Woods', by Harlan Coben which I been reading at home. Got a lot of reading to do for uni right now, so not getting through quite as many books at the usual pace!?!?!

Harlan Coben - Tell No One

...my latest charity shop purchase...I can't put this one down...I read half the book on the first day which isn't like me...I normally just read the odd chapter or two on my breaks in work

Maria wrote:Harlan Coben - Tell No One

...my latest charity shop purchase...I can't put this one down...I read half the book on the first day which isn't like me...I normally just read the odd chapter or two on my breaks in work

That's one of my favourite Harlan Coben books. I didn't even realise it had been made in to a film until the other day, but I bet it isn't half as good as the book. Harlan Coben is one of my favourite thriller writers. I read 'The Woods' in one sitting in the end.

Also just read the latest comedy by Sophie Kinsella 'Do YOu remember', not quite up to her usual standards, but almost, still read it in one sitting, but was dissappointed when I got to the end, felt there could have been a lot more.

'The Shakespeare Secret', was good except for the plot was obvious a mile off, its basically another Da Vinci Code, but based around Shakespeare characters and scholars instead, but far more obvious than the 'Da Vinci Code', you sort of know where the book is going to lead as soon as it starts.

Nothing to read now until I hit the bookshops on payday.

Anita's best friend wrote:I read 'The Woods' in one sitting in the end.

I'm slightly envious of your ability to do that! I find I just don't have the concentration levels required to read a book in one go these days; usually about 20 pages at a time is all I can muster.

Having said that, I really sped up the further I got into Michael Palin's 69-79 Diaries. A really good read, and hopefully he'll release the next volume soon.

I've now moved on to a similar book: Monty Python Speaks! A series of interviews with the surviving Pythons. THink I might have read this one before actually. Ah well! It's an entertaining read all the same.

Anita's best friend wrote: I read 'The Woods' in one sitting in the end.

I've discovered that my brother-in-law likes Harlan Coben books too, so I've just borrowed The Woods from him

I'm currently reading 'David Hume, On Suicide'.

I'm currently reading the Maxims of Larochefoucauld. It's rather entertaining and as it's a parallell French/English translation, it's a great chance for me to practise my French. Parfait!

I'm reading James Herriot's It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet. An interesting related fact: Dutch ex-Chelsea and Southampton FC defender Ken Monkou liked All Creatures Great And Small so much that when he hung up his playing boots a decade ago he moved to Harrogate in Yorkshire, where he still resides!

i'm reading 'systems of differential equations'. it's a rip-roarer so far

tanya wrote:i'm reading 'systems of differential equations'. it's a rip-roarer so far

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It was dy/dx in the library with the lead pipe.

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tanya wrote:i'm reading 'systems of differential equations'. it's a rip-roarer so far

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It was dy/dx in the library with the lead pipe.

was that in the film version then? adaptations can take so many liberties!

Currently reading 'Betrayed' by Lyndsey Harris, another one of those true story books that has me nearly in tears

I'm back to reading my biography of Collette. It's hard going but interesting. I think I may have to read something a bit lighter inbetween stints of this.

Nearly finished reading 'Slam' by Nick Hornby.
Didn't think it would appeal to me at first as I thought it was more of a 'teenage' book and have no interest in skateboarding whatsoever, but I bought it just because it was 'Nick Hornby' and I enjoyed some of his previous books plus the fact that it was on offer for £2.99 in WHSmiths when you bought a copy of The Times and I can't resist a bargain
First couple of chapters I was nearly giving up on it but glad I persevered as I ended up really getting into it.
Not bad but I've read better books by him.