h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've finished 'Wolf Speaker' (Tamora Pierce) and am up to date with them, so I have begun a Star Trek Voyager novelisation "Bless the Beasts" by Karen Haber. Very good, so far!
'Silent Takeover' by Noreena Hertz, irritates me intensely, so I am reading some Ann Rule True Crime trash for now.. A book of jokes by David Letterman has come in for me at the local library, I'll fetch it on Saturday..

i'm amidst 'good grief, the story of charles m. schulz' on where snoopy, linus and charlie brown came from. on deck (next up) is william shatner's 'star trek memories' the library found for me.

Ribert Holdstock's 'Celtika'

The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet

My name is Abigail and I am a carbohydrate addict.

At this point should we clap?

I read "Bless the Beasts" as "Bless the Breasts".

Please! I could do with the encouragement!

Keep it up! You're doing great!

I like the sound of the latter

Hey Abi, aren't we all... pasta, bread, chocolate, potatoes... yummmm, gimme more!!!

Suggested reading: "Afrodita" by Isabel Allende (takes away all the guilt... brilliant if you're a tad overweight but enjoy your food too much to give up on it.)
"Immoral Recipes" by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (same as above, but written by a man who obviously likes his women in different shapes and sizes, and with a healthy appetite.)

>Ribert Holdstock's 'Celtika' <

You'll *love* it - I guarantee it! $$ if you don't (I say, that's a bit rash.) But no, you will it, I promise!

As always I have about seven or eight books on the go.
THe ones that come to mind immediately are:
Captain Beefheart (biography) by someone who's name escapes me
Minority Report - Philip K Dick (very good short story collection released to tie in with the tom cruise film (interesting side note...in the original short story Tom Cruise's character (Anderton) is supposed to be balding, fat and aging....(the three adjectives that instantly come to mind when describing Tom Cruise)))
Time Enough For Love - Robert Heinlen (i started reading this ages ago and have recently started to repeatedly re-read one of the chapters (The story of the man who was too lazy to fail) for its sheer inspirational value
I'm also on my second reading of Catch 22 (joseph heller) and finding it even more worth it the second time round
Oh, and Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail '72 (hunter S Thompson) is also in my stack of books

Perhaps I should just speed up the whole thing by saying which book I've FINISHED recently (a very different statement). THe last book i finished was 'Wouldn't it be Nice' by Brian Wilson and Todd Gold(gould?). This is Brian Wilsons torturously harrowing account of his life, and should be read by everyone, especially if you've ever had a fondness for the beach boys. It's certainly an eye-opener.

I'm currently wading through the Draft Scottish Lib Dem Manefesto for next year before the Scottish conference next saturday.

Not a book I know but for me essential reading.

I have just finished the second book by Eion Colfer Artmedis Fowl the artic expadition "wich is all verry well and good if you happen to like that sort of thing which I" Do.
the only problem now is i have to find another book.

Several excellent books, namely...

Genius, by James Gleick: (a biography of Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and drummer extraordinaire)

Longitude, by Dava Sobel: about the quest for how to measure longitude at sea (the Longitude Act, John Harrison...)

A Tour of the Calculus, by Dave Berlinski: not nearly as boring as it sounds.

minor point, but should be David Berlinski

More Italian books: I know there is an english translation of this one, although I'm not sure what it's called in Englilsh. In Italian it's "Io non ho paura" (I am not afraid), and it's a great, great, great book by Niccolò Ammaniti. He's a young writer, and a truly great one at that. I read the whole thing in an afternoon. It's the truly harrowing story of how a boy of nine living in a tiny village in the South of Italy during the poverty-stricken Seventies (not that it's much better now) and how he finds out about a horrible secret. Beautifully written and plotted.

Like a lot of other people, reading 'Black House' by Stephen King and Peter Straub...

'God of the small things' Arundhati Roy.

To Sail Beyond the Sunset - Robert Heinlein

next up will probably be Time Enough For Love (if I can find it under the pile)

AH...ain't comfort reading fun?