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

David Baldacci: Total Control
Mika Waltari: Johannes Angelos

The Faber Book of Science edited by John Carey

My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd and A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by, er, Frederick Douglass.

"Warhammer 40,000: Storm of Iron" by Graham McNeill.
Lots of Chaos Space Marines (Iron Warriors) running round killing Imperial Guardsmen, great fun .

"The Tough Guide To Fantasyland" by Diana Wynne Jones.

'Culloden' by John Prebble, which is about the battle and its aftermath. I was amazed to find that the battle only lasted about 30 minutes!

I'm also having a second try at 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert. I *still* think the woman's a drip.

Re-reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It's addictive!

It is isn't it! I keep coming back to them when I've not got much time to read, but want to read 'something'.

I'm on my annual walz through Ivanhoe, my favourite novel ever.

Also I'm reading the Guns Germs & Steel thing (Amazon were kind enough to send it to me off my whish list - how many of you knew that they do a monthly draw and send one or more lucky people a pressie?)

I'm also reading the sequel to Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave (for the life of me I can't think what it's called)

and I just read all 8 books in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. And I have to say for light reading they're excellent.

I'm going on holiday next week and I'm taking LOTR and the Silmarillion for company.

I have just about finished the first Volume of the Forsyte Saga which is brilliant and very very readable. So readable in fact I have the second volume in my bag.

Just starting 'The Man Who Was Thursday' by G. K. Chesterton, which is worth reading just for the title alone!

24 Favourite Plays published in 1958 i think

Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain
&
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

plus comfort reading so either Bridget Jones (or similar) or Pride and Prejudice will be brought out soon

Brothers by Julian F. Thompson. So far it's very 'interesante'. I have also just read The Only Alien on The Planet, which funnily enough has nothing to do with aliens. I couldn't put it down.

Still reading Portrait... by James Joyce, and Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson.

Hello!

The hound of the baskervilles; Aurthur Conan Doyle

And The Hollow Hills; Mary Stewart (Sho (a drooling looney, apparently) that is the sequal to the Crystal Cave)

Happy Holidays!


Athena

Er, let me see if I can sum it up:

'The Queen of the Damned' by Anne Rice

'Phantom' by Susan Kay

'Right ho, Jeeves!' by Wodehouse

'Focus on Chaplin' by McAffrey

I'll hopefully finish some of these soon!

The Letters of JRR Tolkein, edited by Humphrey Carpenter. pretty interesting so far.
I just finished The Clan of the Cave Bear - the first of the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel, which I really liked,

Am positively devouring Mr Pullmans Dark Materials as if they're going out of fashion ... started Northern Lights last tuesday, inhaled The Subtle Knife and have just started the Amber Spyglass ... should probably start thinking about the next excitement ... any recommendations.

Isn't Clan of the Cave Bear great? The others are pretty good too ... haven't got around to reading the latest installment as yet - seeing as the hardback is the size of a small village I think I'll wait until it's out in paper back!

'Expecting Someone Taller' by Tom Holt having just my way through 'Who's Afraid of Beowulf?'

I thought the Mary Stewart trilogy was very good.