What are you reading tonight?

[Harry Genshaw]

Just getting to the end of 'We will not fight' the story of conscientious objectors in WWI. Christ on a bike - under extreme pressure they were some brave blokes

[Prufrock]

I don't even know where to start with it to be honest... Do it a page at a time, or read the novel bit first in its entirety?

What did she do?

Sorry dude I missed this, I don't think she read it, but flicked through her mum's copy/ passed on the review. I'll try to find out how her mum went about it.

I appreciate this is possibly the single most pointless post ever, sorry!

[Annoyed Grunt]

I'm going to make a start on one of my Christmas presents.........and it isn't the Cavendish book.....

[Burnden Paddock]

I'm going to make a start on one of my Christmas presents.........and it isn't the Cavendish book.....

Hope you have the marigolds on, to avoid having to touch it.

Ended up buying this for the b-I-l for a family gathering on NYE. Made Mrs BP pick it up and take it through the checkout.

[Prufrock]

I don't even know where to start with it to be honest... Do it a page at a time, or read the novel bit first in its entirety?

What did she do?

Sorry dude I missed this, I don't think she read it, but flicked through her mum's copy/ passed on the review. I'll try to find out how her mum went about it.

I appreciate this is possibly the single most pointless post ever, sorry!

How are you getting on? The girlf got it for Xmas off her mum too and reckons you read it all as you go. I've not opened mine yet because I want to sit down and attack it, don't think it's something to dip in and out of. If I open it now I'll drop it and everything will fall out!

In other news I FINALLY finished Nicholas Nickleby last night. I met a friend in summer and we talked about how she'd just started A Tale of Two Cities. Yesterday afternoon I got a text about the fate of Sydney Carton, as I was on 99% in NN (I love you Kindle, but do page numbers, PLEASE). Turns out a Dickens book takes exactly four months to read. I enjoyed NN, it just took me ages.

On a theme of people who have a special talent for naming characters, I'm currently on Code of the Woosters. Great stuff!

[Annoyed Grunt]

I'm going to make a start on one of my Christmas presents.........and it isn't the Cavendish book.....

Hope you have the marigolds on, to avoid having to touch it.

Ended up buying this for the b-I-l for a family gathering on NYE. Made Mrs BP pick it up and take it through the checkout.

I'm on chapter two so far........

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Started in last night on Ryholt's "the Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period" and at the same time for a little light relief also started Dozois' "the Mammoth Book of Best New SF 26".

So far, it has to be said, the Best New SF is heavy going and I'm having to turn to the Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period for my kicks... it's galloping along at a fair rate, I'm already up to (down to?) 1650BC and the second Hyksos invasion.

[malcd1]

Started reading one of my favourite books to my 5 year old son tonight. George's Marvellous Medicine.

There are some classic bits in it like:

"George couldn't help disliking Grandma. She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom."

Roald Dahl was a fantastic writer.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Started reading one of my favourite books to my 5 year old son tonight. Georges Marvellous Medicine.

There are some classic bits in it like:

"George couldn't help disliking Grandma. She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom."

Roald Dahl was a fantastic writer.

David Walliams has tried to replicate the style.....

[malcd1]

Started reading one of my favourite books to my 5 year old son tonight. Georges Marvellous Medicine.

There are some classic bits in it like:

"George couldn't help disliking Grandma. She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom."

Roald Dahl was a fantastic writer.

David Walliams has tried to replicate the style.....

I haven't read any of his. Any good?

[Annoyed Grunt]

Started reading one of my favourite books to my 5 year old son tonight. Georges Marvellous Medicine.

There are some classic bits in it like:

"George couldn't help disliking Grandma. She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom."

Roald Dahl was a fantastic writer.

David Walliams has tried to replicate the style.....

I haven't read any of his. Any good?

They're ok....been a while since I read them, normally on holiday...my lad likes them. Think he uses the same illustrator too?

[Annoyed Grunt]

I'm going to make a start on one of my Christmas presents.........and it isn't the Cavendish book.....

Hope you have the marigolds on, to avoid having to touch it.

Ended up buying this for the b-I-l for a family gathering on NYE. Made Mrs BP pick it up and take it through the checkout.

I'm on chapter two so far........

It's going to take ages to finish this......can only stand doing a chapter at a time then have to leave it.......I can "hear" him saying the words....horrible...

[LaSuRo]

Started reading one of my favourite books to my 5 year old son tonight. George's Marvellous Medicine.

There are some classic bits in it like:

"George couldn't help disliking Grandma. She was a selfish grumpy old woman. She had pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom."

Roald Dahl was a fantastic writer.

That is an absolute classic! My favourite of his. All these years later I have never forgotten that line about her mouth like a dog's bottom! Also, for some reason, I always especially loved the bit the next morning when his father is always excited and pours milk on his toast and butters his cornflakes. Or something like that ..

(Always wanted to make my own Medicine ..)

[William the White]

I've just finished John Williams' Stoner, which seems to have been rescued from near-obscurity by a Cabal of figures from the British literary establishment, presumably pasxsing it around at their dinner parties.

It is outstanding, melancholic and heart breaking. It tells the tale of the restrained life led by a small time English Lit professor in a Missouri University, who moves from one disappointment to the next as though on a fated mission to avoid danger, love and happiness.

The prose is clear as a bell. The story told with enormous clarity, the characters recognisable at all times, the story a warning of how a refusal of passion, danger and risk, and how the failure to act on desire and to make choice can blight life.

Nick Hornby says: A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel. I'm not arguing.

But after that I need something entertaining. And Bill Bryson has caught my eye. I've never read A Walk in the Woods...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I've just finished John Williams' Stoner, which seems to have been rescued from near-obscurity by a Cabal of figures from the British literary establishment, presumably pasxsing it around at their dinner parties.

It is outstanding, melancholic and heart breaking. It tells the tale of the restrained life led by a small time English Lit professor in a Missouri University, who moves from one disappointment to the next as though on a fated mission to avoid danger, love and happiness.

The prose is clear as a bell. The story told with enormous clarity, the characters recognisable at all times, the story a warning of how a refusal of passion, danger and risk, and how the failure to act on desire and to make choice can blight life.

Nick Hornby says: A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel. I'm not arguing.

But after that I need something entertaining. And Bill Bryson has caught my eye. I've never read A Walk in the Woods...

Is that the Appalachian Trail one?
Like all his stuff it's easy enough to read and is full of interesting facts.

[William the White]

I've just finished John Williams' Stoner, which seems to have been rescued from near-obscurity by a Cabal of figures from the British literary establishment, presumably pasxsing it around at their dinner parties.

It is outstanding, melancholic and heart breaking. It tells the tale of the restrained life led by a small time English Lit professor in a Missouri University, who moves from one disappointment to the next as though on a fated mission to avoid danger, love and happiness.

The prose is clear as a bell. The story told with enormous clarity, the characters recognisable at all times, the story a warning of how a refusal of passion, danger and risk, and how the failure to act on desire and to make choice can blight life.

Nick Hornby says: A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel. I'm not arguing.

But after that I need something entertaining. And Bill Bryson has caught my eye. I've never read A Walk in the Woods...

Is that the Appalachian Trail one?
Like all his stuff it's easy enough to read and is full of interesting facts.

It is the appalachian trail... He's exactly the kind of thing i want after being slowly pushed through the emotional wringer by Stoner.

[Hoboh]

Just finished a noval by Stewart Binns, Conquest, 1066.

Good, very good.

[bobo the clown]

Just finished a noval by Stewart Binns, Conquest, 1066.

Good, very good.

All those Johnny Foreigners coming here, stealing our jobs !!

[Hoboh]

Just finished a noval by Stewart Binns, Conquest, 1066.

Good, very good.

All those Johnny Foreigners coming here, stealing our jobs !!

The current political elite are just as bad as the old Knobbers and royalty and some like the Clegglet, well worse.

[TANGODANCER]

Just finished The Increment..by David Ignatius. Terrorism, counter and the ever present "let's just bomb the bxstrds" attitude from the White House etc. Decent story and well enough written.