Square Eyes

Otherwise known as the bookworms' thread.

So, what are you reading at the moment then? (apart from this message, obviously )

I haven't done much reading recently for one reason and another, so I'm in the middle of The Picture Of Dorian Gray, a biography of Collette and The Amber Spyglass. One day I hope to finish them all!

Sutti's big hair wrote:I'm in the middle of The Picture Of Dorian Gray

I'm reading that too. Oof.

Martina Cole - Two Women

I find her books quite hard to put down, even though the subject matter can be a bit hard going.

I've also been reading a "foreign" phrasebook I got as a present (and wasn't supposed to open till Christmas )

Catherine Robinson's Soul Sisters. It's a girlie book, but what the hey...

Also light reading acid drops by Kenneth Williams.

Yes I'm back at last. The only thing I have had time to do still recently is read on my journey's too and from work. At the moment I'm reading 'The Amber Spyglass', the last in the dark materials trilogy, finding it very hard to put down. I am so pleased they made a film of the first book as it meant the others were brought back to the front of the bookshelves and I had been looking for them for ages, ever since a friend from work lent me the first one from work.

I've missed you guys. I know the forum went offline for a while anyway, but this is the first day I have had off from pouring tea and coffee on trains for about four weeks. I'm knackered, though looking forward to my next pay cheque!!

Going back to the original subject, next I have Jodi picoult's 'Nineteen Minutes', lined up to read.

Anita's best friend wrote: I've missed you guys. I know the forum went offline for a while anyway, but this is the first day I have had off from pouring tea and coffee on trains for about four weeks. I'm knackered, though looking forward to my next pay cheque!!

We've missed you too Abf! I was beginning to think you'd done a Fatima (GH) on us and got on a bus never to return!

The last book I read was the This Life Companion. I'd recently re-watched the TV series so re-reading the cash-in book seemed like the logical next step!

Remember how I was reading several books and planning to finish them? Well I've started another one!

For Christmas, someone got me a book for short stories in French and simulataneously translated into English and I've started reading that. It takes me about half an hour to read two paragraphs, but it's great fun!

Well I finished all Philip Pullman's Dark Materials, brilliant stuff and I'm not a fan of fantasy fiction, but this trilogy is simply brilliant. I also recently read Jodi Picoult's 'Nineteen Minutes' and a book called 'Maus', a story written in comic form about a father and son and the fathers account of surviving 'Auswhitz' (don't think thats spelt right'. Have now just started Ian McEwan's 'On Chesil Beach'.

I'm reading Michael Palin's Diaries 1969-79 at the moment. It's an excellent read, but at well over 600 pages, and with my snail-like pace of reading books, it'll be a long while before I have any other new books to comment about in this thread!

As well as all the other things I'm reading, I've started flicking through a book of interesting facts entitled 'Can Crocodiles Cry?' (the short answer is yes!).

Currently reading 'In my sister's shoes' by Sinéad Moriarty.
As well as 'In Stitches: The highs and lows of an A&E doctor' by Dr Nick Jones. Great book, both touching and funny. I really dispair of the NHS at times so can understand his frustrations but love the way he writes about his experience, plus examples of stupid political correctness & stupid reforms making things worse not better.
He couldn't understanding why patients weren't finding the x-ray department when he sent them and discovered maybe it had something to do with the fact that management had decided to remame the signs for it to 'Department of diagnostic imaging'.

Currently reading Katherine Swynford by Allison Weir and Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkein. I've only read the introduction of the Tolkien one (by his son) so far, but it looks like it should be good. The Katherine Swynford biography is very interesting, but there's an awful lot of conjecture since there are hardly any records about her. Still, makes a change from the non-stop Poirot reading I was doing over Christmas!

Next to be read: Isabella by Allison Weir, Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex and Physik by Angie Sage

Having recently seen 'The Kite Runner', I was inspired to read the book, which was absolutely brilliant (like the film) and after that I read 'A Thousand Splendid Suns', by the same author, which was even better than 'The Kite Runner', couldn't put it down. Needed something light hearted after that though, so now reading Peter Kay and 'THe Sound Of Laughter'. Have about fourteen books lined up at the moment!!!

I'm "reading" the audio book of the first Harry Potter book, read by Stephen Fry, on six cassettes.

I've mixed feelings: JK is no shakespeare, that's for sure, and there seems very little wit, as contrasted with say Jacqueline Wilson, but there is imagination in abundance.

I did know that the movies were heavily cut down compared to the books, and I can't help thinking that a tv series would have worked better than these movies.