The only advantage of being ill with a virus infection is having loads of time to read. Obviously I haven't read all these books within the last two weeks, but I've read a few (#59 to #69), and since I haven't started a list for this year yet, I'm going to start one now before I forget which books I've read. Below are some comments about the latest ( Read more... )

I love, have always loved, and quite possibly will always love detective stories. You know, the good, old-fashioned kind where there's a murder (or a couple of murders) and a detective solving them by cleverly using his "little grey cells". The kind where the reader actually has a chance of guessing who the murderer is ( Read more... )

1. Jane Austen: "Emma"
2. David Cordingly: "Life Among the Pirates - the Romance and the Reality"
3. John Hampden & Francis Drake: "Sir Francis Drake - Pirat im Dienst der Queen"
4. Dan Brown: "Angels and Demons"
5. Dan Brown: "The DaVinci Code"
6. Anthony Blackmore: "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash - A Devon Lad's Life in Nelson's Navy"
7. Agatha Christie ( Read more... )

I just watched The Body in the Library with JackDav. He's playing a wonderful character, snobbish and permanently annoyed. A perfect bastard, really, but I love him OMG. *squee* I nearly fell off my chair when he was interviewing the girl scouts and suddenly stammering and clearing his throat. *LOL* SO DAMN CUTE. *wants him*

( That's how JackDav's character looked after a girl scout was flirting with him instead of giving him the answers he needed. )