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

I am still wading my way through Umberto Eco's Baudolino. Ii has been over a month now and I'm determined to finish it.

At least it has kept me away from my fortnightly purchase of 3 for 2s and postponed a trip to Ikea for another bookcase!

'wyrd sisters'terry pratchett
'merlyn the magician & the pacific coast highway'tom davies
'a history of the world in 10.5 chapters'julian barnes
'zen guitar'philip toshio sudo

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey, caught my eye being the fattest book on the shelf (sitting next to it's sequel, which equals it in size). I was stuck in by the second page though, so it should go quickly... quicker, at any rate, than Return of the King which I *finally* finished.

I've finally finished The Handmaid's Tale, bit disappointed with the ending it kinda fell flat, was it Mayday or did someone betray her

For Pleasure
Doris Lessing - Under My Skin (fab 1st volume of her autobiography)

For Work
Chaucer's Sexual Poetics - Caolyn Dinshaw (feminist/gender aspects of Chaucers writing)
Secretaries of God - Diane Watt (about several female religious Mystics - fascinating . . .)

Ursula Toad

I'm mid-way through Infinite Riches - Ben Okri, and Christopher Lee's (signed) autobiography, The Lord of Misrule

A literate Marine...

Grabbed 'Starman Jones' (Robert A. Heinlein) at the PX last night, and good thing, as 'Methuselah's Children' didn't last the night. I've managed to read 'The Cat Who Walks Through Walls', 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and all the RAH I could get my hands on (a dozen, easy), even 'Starship Troopers' again. Who says breaking your leg is a bad thing? 'Children of the Mind' (Orson Scott Card) is sitting on my shelf, too, but it was ten years ago I read Ender... I'm a little intimidated.

Just fuinished Quentins by Maeve binchy. Am now reading Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, after planning to for over a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great choice Rosemary, hope you're enjoying the Wilkie Collins. If you like that, try his other major book - the Moonstone, often said to be the first modern English detective novel. Both books are well worth reading

I've just received a competition prize book through the letterbox So I'll soon be getting started on Colin Irwin's "In search of the Craic" subtitled as One Man's pub crawl through Irish Music.

Finished Bill Bryson's history - which was excellent but ended rather abruptly.

Now quickly reading Maya Angelou's Even the Stars Look Lonesome. God she can be right up her own rectum sometimes!

I've just started Robin Cook's diaries called 'Point of Departure'

In the Lion's Court by Derek Wilson. It's about 6 men called Thomas (More, Wolsey, Cromwell, Wriothesley, Howard and Cranmer) and how they affected, and were affected by, King Henry and his Court.

Finished "Solaris" last night (at last! I get it now!) and started P.K.Dick's "Time Out Of Joint"

About 1/4 of the way through "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence" by Robert M. Pirsig.

nearly halfway through 'Nobody True' by James Herbert.

Halfway through "The Universe in a Nutschell", by Stephen Hawking.

Halfway through "The Universe in a Nutshell", by Stephen Hawking.

Any good, Toy box (or any others who've read it for that matter)? I've been thinking about reading it, if I could just find a book shop that carries English literature.

And so I could put it in my ever-growing list of books I'd like to finish, which currently looks like this:

'Aunts aren't gentlemen' by P.G Wodehouse
'The three musketeers' by Alexandre Dumas
'The valley of fear' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
'The tale of the body thief' by Anne Rice

Bog only knows if I'll ever finish them...

Well For enjoyment
His Dark Materials. Philip Pulman: I just loved the radio adaptation so I just had to read the book.
Foe Work:
A software maunul in threee heavy books.
Foe enlightment:
Psychic Living.

Alice Sebold's 'The Lovely Bones'. Strangely rivetting!