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

Henry Miller - The Books in my Life

I couldn't resist...

I cracked open "Hitchhiker"

Tigers of the Snow by Jonathan Neale. It looks at Himalayan mountain climbing from the point of view of the Sherpas, people whose part in the successful attempts on the various peaks has seldom been considered in all the other books on the subject. It's a real eye-opener.

Salmon of Doubt by our own Mr Adams


About to start rereading Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

*waves to MC*

Reading Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome for World Book Day in Lil's Atelier.

Colony by Rob Grant (creator of Red Dwarf)

Robert Rankin > 'Sex Drugs and Sauasage Rolls'


also on the side am re-reading...
Michael Moore > 'Stupid White Men'

I'm actually embarrassed to admit this; I've deviated from my usual real authors (Wilde/Orwell/Plath/Adams and so on) and am reading "Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon" by über-gruppie Pamela Des Barres! Don't look at me like that.

To balance it out I'm also (re)reading Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" though.

Now reading The Two Towers and Why Men Dond Listen and Women Can't Read Maps

I've just finished Any Human Heart by William Boyd. About a man's long and ordinary/extraordinary life, spanning the whole of the 20th century.

Not sure what to read next . . .

Sho, I can read maps very well, I just don't know my left from my right

that's what the book says, female spacial awareness isn't always up to much but there are exceptions, but pretty much all women have the left/right problem.

The next on my list will be Return of the King, but after that it's Kavalier and Clay, and then I have a hankering to read the Far Pavillions again.

And I think Janet Evanovich has the latest in the Stephanie Plum series out any day now. So that's coming up soon too.

I've just finished the very fine Foe by JM Coetzee. Next up I've got a choice of 'Noughts and Crosses' by Marjorie Blackman or 'Are You Dave Gorman?' I'm leaning toward the latter at the moment because I've got to read 'Written on the Body' by Jeanette Winterson for Uni in a fortnight.

Atchly, I cannot read maps at all! And I am otherwise 'directionally challenged' (new PC term) in that I often get totally turned around after walking into a building - coming out again I go 'where the heckity am I?' Is this a female thing? I rather don't think so. Still, when I show friends a street map of where I live (when they come to visit) even though I have lived here for ten years and know exactly how to get around all of the winding streets, it takes me ages to find places on the map!

Hmmmm. . .

DNA-Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide (randomly fliping to any point in any of the 5 books)
Homer-The Odyssey (for English class)

Asimov's Chronology of the World (Isaac Asimov)

and

The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)

~Renee

Begin Backgammon by J.du C.Vere Molyneux.

Neverness by David Zindell

Finished HHGTTG last week, I've got two on the go ATM

Stargate SG-1-The First Amendment

Babylon 5-Voices

I've read all of Janet Evanovitch's Stephanie Plum books from One for the money to Hard Eight, heartily recommend them to anyone who fancies a laugh the audio tapes are good too read by Loreli King

this week, i am mostly reading Eric by Terry Pratchett.