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

Oryx And Crake, by Margaret Atwood.

RF

A while back I bought a little wire bound book called "Books to Check Out, A Journal" It's cover lookes like an old library card. Inside it has three sections, "Books to Read", "Favorite Books/Passages" and "Books Borrowed/Lent". Each section is full of blank lined and divided pages. I thought of this cause I was reminded here that I want to read "Oryx and Crake" and keep forgetting to write that down. I often see things on this thread that I want to read and don't think to write them down.

I have put on hold the list of books I was reading and not finishing for now. Now I am halfway through "The Golden Compas" and I just started "Pride and Prejudice" which I had somehow never gotten around to reading before now.

HBFJ said, "I often see things on this thread that I want to read and don't think to write them down. "

This made me think of something I seem to do from time to time.

Am I the only one who goes in to a bookstore and has brain freeze when I try to remember what book I went in there for??

I DO have a list; trouble is, I need to remember to bring it!


SC

Still ploughing my way through Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives which was a christmas present. Trouble is every time I go in a bookshop or library I leave with several easier reads.

"Am I the only one who goes in to a bookstore and has brain freeze when I try to remember what book I went in there for??"

No,that happens to me all the time. Same thing when I go into record stores.

I tend to stand around in record shops looking at all the records I'd buy if I stopped spending my cash on going to Swindon. Anyway, this week I read When the Wind Blows, by James Patterson, as well as those already mentioned. I haven't done much revision considering I have seven or eight exams next week.

HBFJ said: "No,that happens to me all the time. Same thing when I go into record stores."

Thank God, I'm not the only one!

Books....Yum!!

SC

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Since purchasing my iPAQ I generally read both a public domain eBook and a pBook.

_Le Morte D'Arthur_ by Thomas Mallory (eBook):I've read several versions of the King Arthur legend and thought I would try the original. We'll see how far I get.

_Salmon of Doubt_ by Douglas Adams (pBook): My wife got me this (along with the H2G2 DVD set) for our 25th wedding anniversary. I find it both interesting and entertaining (even if when I don't agree with Adams).

The Highway Code.

today was the bookfest here so i got about 40 second hand books
don't know which one to read first!
CC

"i got about 40 second hand books"

I'm reading "The Amber Spyglass" now.

I bought Phillip Pullman's trilogy, as a boxed set, for Au$49.99 from Angus & Robertson today. They were the only books that I have paid full-price for lately. I also got two Sara Douglass books, 'The Nameless Day' and 'The Wounded Hawk', from the The Crucible' trilogy for $4.99 each and Micheal Palin's, 'Sahara' for $9.99.
I bought all these today and I got three other books yesterday.

Annie

finished Chocolat - totally fab. But I'm glad I saw the film first, because it would have been a disappointment otherwise.

Now reading Bridget Jones' Diary (sorry, I'm not going to write Jones's. Not ever) and after that will read the Bill Bryson thing - what is it? A Short History of Nearly Everything.

And still plugging away at the Silmarillion. Losing track of the again. which is annoying. Is there anything more annoying than that?

"(sorry, I'm not going to write Jones's. Not ever)" -- except for just there

Currently reading Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire which I mistakenly thought was the first book, but apparently the Wicked Witch one was. I'm assuming they're not related stories so it shouldn't make any difference. It's a slow-starter though.

Also reading Charlie Bone and the Time Twister because my mother is an elementary librarian and keeps passing along childrens books; it's okay, and entertaining enough, but I'm having trouble reading it and not comparing it to Harry Potter and it falls tremendously short. It seems to be written for a younger audience than Potter even though the characters are the same ages. Maybe I'll have my son read a Charlie Bone and see what he thinks.

And Hbfj and SC, definitely not alone, in either respect. I started keeping a list of books I want to read in my journal, trouble is I never seem to have my computer with me when I'm in the shop But I'm constantly finding papers that I've written various titles on and saying 'Oh, yeah, I was going to read that' and promptly losing the paper again.

I tried reading _Wicked_ and put it down after getting about 1/3 of the way through. The premise was interesting but the execution creeped me out. Philip Jose Farmer did it better in _A Barnstormer in Oz_ (a fictional biography of Dorothy Gale) and _Tarzan Alive_ (a fictional biography of Tarzan). Both are definitely for adults (as is _Wicked_).

I had the same problem with reading lists (and wine lists) until I purchased my iPAQ PDA. Now I can always write and refer to my notes wherever I am.

Little Mischief, I know what you mean by the little bits of paper!

I used to listen to National Public Radio all day at work, and I'd make these tiny little notes to myself on sticky notes after hearing the authors interviewed. Yup, you guessed it, all lost!!

I use my spreadsheet program at home to keep track of books to look for (off the sticky notes I DIDN'T lose, and up to about 3 1/2 pages now!), trouble is, I never remember to take the darn thing with me to the bookstore!!

Argghhhh terminal !

SC

Done with Bridget Jones and her Amazing Diary - I'd forgottne that both Hugh Grant and the BBC Pride and Predjudice thing were mentioned in it.

Now about to begin the Bryson History of Everything book. Whilst slogging along with The Silmarillion.

Tick Tock by Dean Koontz
Been awhile since I read a Koontz; I'd forgotten just how creepy he is.

Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre. About halfway through, and so far it's pretty good. But how and where will it end?

RF