What are you reading at the moment??

[lucy]

Two Jeeves books back to back.

I love the Jeeves books - have you seen the tv version (Jeeves and Wooster) with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie?  It's brilliant (a definite fave in my dvd collection).

I love the Mapp and Lucia books by E. F. Benson as well.  They're in a similar vein and an absolute delight.

[Heidi G]

No Lucy, I don't have them yet.  But I think Hugh Laurie's an excellent actor, so I have the complete dvd season on one of my little (cough cough) Amazon wish lists.

(Amazon's wish list function gets me into major trouble....far too many books on my various lists!! )

Anyway, been listening to The Code of the Woosters on CD.  I'll never look at cow creamers in quite the same light again....

[Lisa]

The Fry and Laurie J&W are very funny.  I downloaded "Right Ho, Jeeves"  with Richard Briers and the other actor whose name I can't remember because iTunes didn't have the other one Heidi recommended, and it was fun to listen to in the car.

[norby]

No Lucy, I don't have them yet.  But I think Hugh Laurie's an excellent actor, so I have the complete dvd season on one of my little (cough cough) Amazon wish lists.

(Amazon's wish list function gets me into major trouble....far too many books on my various lists!! )

Anyway, been listening to The Code of the Woosters on CD.  I'll never look at cow creamers in quite the same light again....

I know what you mean about the Amazon wish list Heidi, mine never seems to get below two pages, and I think it's all books and dvds.  Does that make me greedy?

[Heidi G]

The Fry and Laurie J&W are very funny.  I downloaded "Right Ho, Jeeves"  with Richard Briers and the other actor whose name I can't remember because iTunes didn't have the other one Heidi recommended, and it was fun to listen to in the car.

Oh hurrah, you didn't get stuck in the car going, "What in the H@## made Heidi think this was funny?!?!?"    Richard Briers and Michael Holdern are great together as Bertie and Jeeves.  I'll have to check out the Right Ho recording; don't have that one yet!

[Heidi G]

I know what you mean about the Amazon wish list Heidi, mine never seems to get below two pages, and I think it's all books and dvds.  Does that make me greedy?

Um, only two pages?  Is that in compact, or regular view?   In either view, I can honestly say that compared to my lists' pages  (which I herewith refuse to divulge ), you are positively austere in your wants.

[norby]

I know what you mean about the Amazon wish list Heidi, mine never seems to get below two pages, and I think it's all books and dvds.  Does that make me greedy?

Um, only two pages?  Is that in compact, or regular view?   In either view, I can honestly say that compared to my lists' pages  (which I herewith refuse to divulge ), you are positively austere in your wants.

I think it's regular view.  Sadly, I end up being the one who buys most of the stuff on the wish list, so the items generally turnover on a regular rate, otherwise it would be a much longer list.

[Random Person]

Right now I am reading Belfast Diary by John Conroy.  It's pretty good.

Before that I finished TBOLT.  It was different and really good.  I enjoyed the fantasy/satarical element (like with the dwarves) a lot. 

[thigi]

I just finished ALEX GRAY's - Shadow of Sounds.

Synopsis


The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar, the orchestra's leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room, his colleagues are shocked. But the show must go on. Enter DCI Lorimer and psychologist Solomon Brightman to investigate. What they uncover is a series of irrevocably tangled relationships between the orchestra members. Up until his death Millar had been involved in homosexual relationships with several other orchestra members and was well known for playing his lovers off against one another - but were his controversial dalliances really enough to incite cold-blooded murder? A thrilling, dark tale from one of Scotland's finest writers of human envy and intrigue.

It's really an interesting book... (the most interesting one I've read after having picked up JC's book  )
There's only a small thing that wasn't easy to fellow in all this, it was the fact that we don't know the age or we have difficulties to guess the age of the characters and that the author mostly use the word 'The man' for everyone.
I mean, at start we used to imagine a whole adult world because it's this man asking to this man etc... but certainly, at a point in the middle of the story, some man are called 'the boy' in the view of the cops and ehr, I totally got lost since one whom I imagined to be a man in his debut thirty became in the middle a boy around his debut twenty and who's the son of a man I thought had the same age as his son at the start...  Oups sorry, talking to much  That's because of the rain on this first day of the year... and I'm locked inside.

[Heidi G]

PrairyErth by William Least-Heat Moon.  For some reason, cold weather always puts me into a nature writers kick.  And that wind is COLD out there today!

The only complaint I have is that he keeps quoting so many authors at the beginning of the sections and I now I'm adding to my already too long list of writers/books at Amazon.  Damn him. 

[The Shannon Hoon Appreciation Society]

Raymond khoury's The Last Templar. Very far fetched yet strangely unputdownable. (Is that a word?)

[norby]

Raymond khoury's The Last Templar. Very far fetched yet strangely unputdownable. (Is that a word?)

If you want to be, sure.

[Lisa]

unputdownable. (Is that a word?)

It's in the 2001 New Oxford American Dictionary.  Don't have the OED handy.

[Anne Gray]

I just finished tha last book in the Dark Tower series.  I'm not quite sure how I feel about it. 
POSSIBLE SPOILER



A part of me feels like that's the only way it could have ended, the only thing that makes sense.  Then it makes me sad to think of leaving the gunslinger that way, with no rest.  Then I go back to the last line of the book and I'm reminded about "ka" and it being a wheel.  Whatever.  They were good reads, except for the third, and I'm glad I finally listened to my husband and read them.

Now, I'm on to The Last Templar, which a few of you suggested.  I've been trying to get it at the library for months but it's always out.  The last time I was there, it was in in large print.  I'll be able to read it from across town!

[Mark PL]

The poem that inspired it ended without a resolution, so I figured it'd always work out that way in the books.