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

Johannes Cabal - The Fear Institute, by Jonathan L. Howard. He's left steampunk behind and gone all Lovecraftian for this one.

started the Mark Moxon Lands End to John O'Groats one.

I'm a bit stuck for reading matter at the minute. But I was given some book tokens so I've no excuse not to stock up...

that reminds me. I came back from my mum's with about 50 books, where to start...

anyway, what I meant to say was that I have somehow come to be in possession of a few doubles. Anyone up for a(nother) h2g2 book swap?

Crap, that reminds me, I've a feeling you're owed a stack of books that have not yet made it as far as the Post Office.

nonono
seriously, don't worry about it - I have a bazillion books on my "to be read" shelf, and the shelf next to it, and the pile on the floor - and that's not even thinking about the vast number on my Kindle.

I'm reading all the Miss Read books. It's like reading The Archers but without all the drama. Entertaining in a restful way.

Mol

I'm currently reading Persuasion - I intend to work my way through all Jane Austen books.

Three Men on the Bummel, JK Jerome. Entertaining enough, with some very amusing bits. Although it's such a short book, though, I find that one or two of the anecdotes go on past the stage where you're thinking 'Ok, I get the message'. That's only in one or two places, though.

The Lord God Made Them All by James Heriot. I've read the first six books several times but never the last two. And now I own a complete matching set! I have lots of 'sets' of books, but this is the only one where all the volumes are the same height with matching covers and spines.

Oh, yes, the book. Well, y'know, it's James Heriot. Quietly amusing, undemanding, rural (I'd run out of Miss Read). I'm slightly phased by the way he is slipping in odd chapters about his 1961 trip to Russia, when the book is, in the main, based in Yorkshire immediately after his discharge from the RAF in WW2, but I'm sure it will all make sense by the end.

Mol

A few from my Kindles (Kindle Keyboard and Android app) - Sarum by Edward Ruthefurd, Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils by Brian Switek and A Matter of Honour: The Story of England's Last Fatal Duel by Martin Beardsley.

I was delighted to find that Anne McCaffrey's Pern series is now available on Kindle. I suspect I'll be replacing my tree-book copies (and completing the series) as and when I can afford to.

Silas Marner, George Eliot. Not very far into it, but it's good stuff.

I recognise these people...

oh I absolutely love that story. It was one of my O-level set books and I've read it a few times since then and it just gets better and better.

Meant to say, who has read the Mark Moxon Land's End to John o'Groats?

I'm at Loch Lomond and blimey, it has been a struggle to get this far. Does it stop being a whinge fest (esp about the Penine Way) and a moan about how he's missing his girlfriend?

Just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick. As I expect we all know it was filmed as Blade Runner, but I reckon the reboot of Battlestar Galactica owes quite a lot to it as well.

gave up on the Mark Moxon book - if he really dislikes walking that much (or that particular walk that much) he should have stopped and saved me reading even as far as I got

Started the Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P. Jones. Hilarious so far.

Finished LotR and Desolation Island at about the same time - couldn't wait to start Desolation Island, so I made it my book-at-bedtime / bathroom book. The island of the title only crops up in the last couple of chapters.

Reading Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno (Dorothy L. Sayers translation), The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge, and Colours Aloft by Alexander Kent as my book-at-bedtime / bathroom book.The Girl Who Played with Fire will be my next fiction title.

I've just finished Rose Tremain's 'Sacred Country'. Has anyone else read it?

I started out thinking it was a bit slow, then I realised that there is a wry humour in it.

But the overall effect was to make me sad.

I've read Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs.

Now reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

A book about navigation skills. It's pitched a fair bit below me so I'm not getting that much out of it - but it would be good for a complete beginner.

Still interesting though: he has one or two ways slightly different from mine, and it's always nice to have more than one way of peeling a puma.