What are you reading tonight?

[TANGODANCER]

In the absence of Monty's recommended Steffani Baron books I got Flappers and Philosophers, the collected short stories of F.Scott Fitzgerald from the library. Looks good.

[Harry Genshaw]

Just finished 'The Dig tree' an account of the Burke & Wills expedition trying to cross Australia. Great stuff.

[Bruce Rioja]

Just finished 'The Dig tree' an account of the Burke & Wills expedition trying to cross Australia. Great stuff.

Are they the ones that took a dining table along with them?

[Harry Genshaw]

Just finished 'The Dig tree' an account of the Burke & Wills expedition trying to cross Australia. Great stuff.

Are they the ones that took a dining table along with them?

They are! Like a lot of Victorian era expeditions, a proper feck up punctuated with snippets of real heroism and tragedy.

[thebish]

am loving my new kindle..

have just (errr..) acquired the ebook versions of the Robin Hobb "Farseer Trilogy" and converted them to MOBI with Calibre...

I'm a slow reader - so I'm guessing that's me pretty much sorted for the next year!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Just finished 'The Dig tree' an account of the Burke & Wills expedition trying to cross Australia. Great stuff.

Are they the ones that took a dining table along with them?

They are! Like a lot of Victorian era expeditions, a proper feck up punctuated with snippets of real heroism and tragedy.

I only know because Bryson covered them briefly in Down Under and they stuck in my mind. It starts of as comedy gold (insisting on two carvers with said dining table) but it wasn't long before I was thinking you poor, poor bastards . The book's worth it then, Harry?

[Harry Genshaw]

Aye, it's a good read and a great story. I do love owt like that though, Shackleton, Scott, Franklin etc

[TANGODANCER]

The Works bookstore in Crompton place have a rake of Collins Classics on offer at any two for three pounds: Dickens, Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, The Brontes etc etc. Picked up new copies of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Pride and Prejudice today. Too good to miss.

[thebish]

The Works bookstore in Crompton place have a rake of Collins Classics on offer at any two for three pounds: Dickens, Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, The Brontes etc etc. Picked up new copies of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Pride and Prejudice today. Too good to miss.

have you not already got those??

[TANGODANCER]

The Works bookstore in Crompton place have a rake of Collins Classics on offer at any two for three pounds: Dickens, Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, The Brontes etc etc. Picked up new copies of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Pride and Prejudice today. Too good to miss.

have you not already got those??

Had all Sherlock's stuff way back (in another life) but P & P,though read to distraction has always been the property of several libraries . You can read a lot of books many times over in seventy plus years.

[Bijou Bob]

I happened to pick up my girlfriend's discarded paperback and start reading last week. 50 Shades of Grey, one of a trilogy. Apparently its taken the chit lit market by storm. It's certainly a tad on the raunchy side (An awful lot of S&M ) and actually quite well written, though as usual, you could drive a coach and horses through the gaps in the storyline.

[Lord Kangana]

I picked up the Gulag Archipelago a while ago, and immediately put it straight back down for being too dense.

I've since resumed it, albeit at a slower-than-my-normal pace, with the English being a little disjointed, but its staring to come alive. i wouldn't say the epithet "enjoy" would be accurate, but its turning in to a good read.

[TANGODANCER]

Just finished Jerusalem The Biography. Amazing true story of the Holy City with very little holiness and every other sort of wrong-doing imaginable. Greed, power, corruption, sexual deprevation and death on the grand scale. With Constantiople (Istanbul) , the most fought over city on earth. If you read history, don't miss this.

[William the White]

I picked up the Gulag Archipelago a while ago, and immediately put it straight back down for being too dense.

I've since resumed it, albeit at a slower-than-my-normal pace, with the English being a little disjointed, but its staring to come alive. i wouldn't say the epithet "enjoy" would be accurate, but its turning in to a good read.

A really, really important book, i think. Alongside 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovisch' as the best Solzhenitsyn ever wrote...

[bwfcdan94]

im back, with a lesser appetite for posting, a average of less than 60 posts a day and some lesser ridiculous ideas then the ones i posted in my first week on the forum

[TANGODANCER]

Paid a visit to Bolton Central Library today and managed to pick up Girl with a Pearl Earring amongst other books. Also a non-fiction The Telescope-a short history that looks interesting.

[TANGODANCER]

im back, with a lesser appetite for posting, a average of less than 60 posts a day and some lesser ridiculous ideas then the ones i posted in my first week on the forum

Is it a book?

[Bruce Rioja]

Paid a visit to Bolton Central Library today and managed to pick up Girl with a Pearl Earring

I've got Girl with a Pearl Necklace. Have to say, I'm stunned that the Central Library are stocking this stuff though. Bravo!

[TANGODANCER]

Paid a visit to Bolton Central Library today and managed to pick up Girl with a Pearl Earring amongst other books. Also a non-fiction The Telescope-a short history that looks interesting.

Finished in a very short time. Life in the household of the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer told through the eyes of a teenage girl. Well written and compelling reading. Recommend.

[Bruce Rioja]

Hmmm. Now then, ignoring the obvious 'colouring in' jokes, I've just had Merson's book recco'd to me by someone who I wouldn't have ever thought might have (a) even read it, or (b) liked it one jot.
Has anyone else....... Etc, etc?