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

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

Ooh, that's good, Footsie. I finished it last week. A bit rough at the beginning, but gets easier.

RF

I'm about half way through it now, had me crying at the beginning But it's the best book i've read in a while

Read Lovely Bones at the start of the year - and have just finished 'Lucky' by the same author.

Currently on Sharpe's Tiger.

"Lucky" is good too. A lot more harrowing, though.

Just about to start "The Pianist". Another cheerful tale.

RF

dictionary-oxford unabridged

I am reading a sci-fi book: "Pandora's Star" from Peter F. Hamilton, just after finished the DNA book: "The restaurant at the end of the universe".

I am also reading a very light book ( for small bus trips ): "Salvador Dali, a life of surrealism and genius"

And also very interesting boring of read university books: about genetics, anatomy and other kind of medical stuff.

Just finished Sharpe's Tiger this morning and am about to start the next one - just can't get too much of all that swashing.

I am just about to start a book called No Comebacks by Frederick Forsythe, the best one i have ever read was The Day Of The Jackal.

Classical German short stories (ranging from about 1940 to 1960, I'd say).

"Un homme qui dort" ("A Man Asleep"), by Georges Perec.

And I'm still not quite through the Oxford Book of Sonnets.

And I'm also trying a series of short stories in Dutch, "De Fluwelen Machine" by Manon Uphoff

Forgotten Voices (of the great war)by Max Arthur

Personal accounts about living through WW1.

Quite moving.

Northanhymbre Saga by John Marsden. A history of the Kingdom of Northumbria.

The Mayor of Casterbridge is dull, but Far From the Madding Crowd is fabulous. Anything with a heroine called Bathsheba has to be worth a look!
As for Catcher In The Rye, I'm afraid I love that book. I can well believe that being surrounded by phonies can drive anyone to a breakdown.

Finished Perec's "Un Homme Qui Dort" and started Italo Calvino's "Aventures" (a translation of "Gli Amori Difficili" and "La Vita Difficile").

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

I've been learning just enough about infinity in my set theory class to really get me interested, and when I found this book, I had to have it! So far, it's been worth it.

Also, just finished The Well of Lost Plots, the third in the already-mentioned series by Jasper Fforde. It was great, and now I have to wait months to a year for the fourth to come out!

Finally got round to reading the Life of Pi by Yann Martel and I'm loving it.

Life of Pi is great!

I finally finished by book/project "The Children's War". It took me almost two months because of the size, and even after re-checking from the library twice, it's about five days over-due now. It was worht it, though, and an excellent read.

Love All The People - a collection of pieces from Bill Hicks.

Sharpe's Sword by Bernard Cornwell. I couldn't resist, having seen the Beanster strut his stuff on tv the other night.

Footbacon, you're in Sheffield, right? You're not reading the soggy copy of Lovely Bones from Waterstones in Orchard square are you? The one I flicked through a few weeks ago and burst into tears at the bottom of the second page?

And, now my wandering Hitchhikers has returned from Florida, I'm starting that this weekend.