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

Bookaholic here.... of course I'd like to join!! I had to move house a few months ago simply to accommodate the bookcases: does that say something?

Welcome to the bookworms Rcurls, its lovely to meet you. What are you reading at the moment?

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Thanks for the welcome, mine's a coffee, lots of everything.

Current reading:

The Summer Book - Tove Jansson (just begun, feels like a delicious dip in cool water so far)
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx (re-reading, I had flu the last time I read it, didn't make much impact)
Heartwood - James Lee Burke (nice gory juicy American thriller, just the stuff for nightmares)
The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts - Lilian Jackson Braun (unashamedly lowbrow and charming)
Starlings Laughing - June Vendall Clark (autobiog of colonial Rhodesia, with a twist)
Adobe Photoshop manual - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

Did I mention I have FAR too much time on my hands? LOL

Hands a with lots of milk and sugar.

I'm currently between books at the moment, I've just finished last chacne to see my Douglas Adams himself, I'm also reading Lovely Bones, which is shamesless airport fiction, - yet acutally rather good. That only has 1/2 a commute left. So my weekly trip to the library left me with a nice pop history book on Britian in the year 0.

_ should you be intersted in doing a review for the bookworms weekly review, in I'm sure there's plenty you could do.

I've read the Shipping news as well, which was rather good!

Now I put off reading 'Lovely Bones' for ages... I was travelling across the US when it was first published and there was SO much hype, I deliberately avoided it. Then recently WH Smith (I live in a town with no bookstores, it's a tragedy) ran it as part of their 2 for £10, so I caved in.

Now call me a pleb, but I don't think it's airport fiction: I read it in two days flat and loved it. OK it's not Proust or Dostoevsky, but it was compelling, the characters were extremely well drawn and I was drawn right 'inside' the pages.

[And let's be truthful here, I've struggled twice with Madame Bovary and never yet made it through...]

I am really enjoying Lovely Bones, I only thought of it as airport fiction because of the hype and the fact that i purchased it at an airport. ! I only read on my commute at the moment, but I still finished in a week. It's a very compelling and addictive read. I think I would like it more if it weren't for the hype, I do wonder how a first novel got so much hype.

Madame Bovary is one of the mst beautiful books I've ever read!

You must have a bad translation.....

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