Coming out the other side of two weeks of bronchitis. Nice to not be coughing every minute or so ( Read more... )

This weekend I picked up Akimitsu Takagi's detective novel The Tattoo Murder Case. It was fascinating to read on many levels. The book was published in 1948 and won the Mystery Writers Club Award of Japan, 1949 (translated to English 1998) and takes place in Edo aka Tokyo. To read a Japanese author describing the city and its populace in the ( Read more... )

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i have the niggling suspicion i am missing a couple. sadly a short list this year. i hope to increase my reading in 2009.

( a few books that caught my interest this year )

today i read the news a prolific author whose movies were turned into blockbusters has passed away from cancer.

Michael Crichton dies of canceri enjoyed reading jurassic park, the andromeda strain, sphere, timeline and countless other of his books. i enjoyed the movies made from those books as well as others i haven't read such as, the terminal ( Read more... )

over the last couple days i have been reading books. real, printed on paper, books. largely due to not having internet connectivity whilst working.

the author i read is lisa jackson. i had picked up two paperbacks that seemed interesting. she wrote them in succession, hot blooded and cold blooded. she writes what is described as suspense romance ( Read more... )

UKTV in britain commissioned a survey to produce a list of the top 20 romantic books. what is fascinating is that eight of the twenty were written in the 1800's. i have actually read the majority of these books. a few of them more than once.

( mmm... jealousy, sex and violence )

Bookstore owner burns books in protest

Here are the instructions: Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk* the ones you’ve never heard of.

( the book list )

"They had Tom and Huck whitewashing the fence … and on the island interacting with the kids, but the kids were clueless," Lutz said. "I guess in the schools now they don't teach the books anymore."

gleaned the above tidbit from an article in the los angeles times with regard to rumour of a conversion of tom sawyer island at disneyland to a pirate ( Read more... )