Because the BBC is doing loads of booky things (mostly featuring Superkins and her glasses apparently), here is a book meme.

( cut for massive memeyness )

My reading has picked up a bit recently, although I am still MILES behind this time last year ( Read more... )

I wanted some reading icons, and I couldn't find any, so I made some.

Please feel free to help yourself if you want any of them.

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Continued from earlier ( Read more... )

``You shall hear then -- but prepare yourself for something very dreadful. The first time of my ever seeing him in Hertfordshire, you must know, was at a ball -- and at this ball, what do you think he did? He danced only four dances! I am sorry to pain you -- but so it was. He danced only four dances, though gentlemen were scarce; and, to my ( Read more... )

First I went to Stratford. I stopped in Warwick on a whim, and they were having a folk festival. I watched some morris dancers and some ladies' clog dancers (like I used to do) who were very good. I had a sausage.

Then I found a campsite. It was sunny, so I sat and finished my book (Wallander - The White Lioness - ok) and drank wine. There was ( Read more... )

On Friday I finished reading A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, which I LOVED (loved it! Loved her writing, couldn't put it down, loved it) and today I finished the last Young Bond book, By Royal Command, which was pulpy trash, but enjoyable.

Now, YOU CHOOSE what I read next!

Poll What Should I Read Next?

Plague Year - pro: end of the world, short. Con: not ( Read more... )

My 2009 list so far, continued:

16.  Firewall, Henning Mankell. Another Wallander, I really enjoyed it.

17. The Glass Blowers, Daphne Du Maurier. One I'd never heard of, and it's been sat on my shelf since (apparently) 1971, lol? I really enjoyed it. French revolution family history stuff, very interesting.

18. The Load of Unicorn, Cynthia Harnett. I  ( Read more... )

My plan to read 60 books this year (of which 80% new to me) is continuing more or less on schedule, I think.

1. Sidetracked (Wallander), Henning Mankell. Really enjoyed it.
2. The Road, Cormac McCarthy. HATED it with a huge hatey passion.
3. 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth,  Xiaolu Guo.  I loved it - really different and really beautiful.
4. The ( Read more... )

I'm a bit behind on the books so far this year.

1.  Sidetracked (a Wallander book) - Henning Mankell. I loved the tv version of this, and I knew whodunnit, so I wasn't sure what I'd make of the book. But I bloody LOVED it. Loved how detailed and descriptive and readable and interesting it was. It didn't disagree with anything in the tv version (well ( Read more... )