What are you reading?

[graysonscolumn]

I recently queued all night for the latest Mr Men book, ‘Mr Hype’. The plot is a bit ropey and the writing is dodgy but I just had to find out what happened.

LOL!

You may be interested in the other forthcoming titles in the series;

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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[Andrew Hughes]

Excellent stuff. And the great thing is – they’re for children, but adults can read them too

[dave jay]

Nothing .. I’m reading nothing at all !!

.. it makes one feel almost free.

[Pompete]

I read a book once…green it was.

[dave jay]

.. that green book may well have been ‘The Jungle – Upton Sinclair’ which is a bit of a classic, all about the exploitation of migrant workers in the USA. It would probably be banned now because it critises the migration process .. and that’s not allowed anymore, even if the process was/is as bent as a nine bob note .. funny old world !!

I started reading a book last night which is very good and I’m going to read some more in a minute, but I can’t remember what it is called, or who wrote it .. I’ll tell you tomorrow.

[Kingston Town]

I’m going to read Tintin in the Congo …………….. because they say we shouldn’t

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[Karly Flight]

i’m reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It’s a collection of short stories so maybe more accessible than his novels which are great if slightly (or very) bizarre.

[Irish Stamp]

It’s not so much reading it as looking at the pictures that you shouldn’t do Kingston sooooooooooo read it with your eyes shut

[Kingston Town]

It’s not so much reading it as looking at the pictures that you shouldn’t do Kingston sooooooooooo read it with your eyes shut

OK I’ll give it a go…………. only problem is as soon as I do that I

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[Prufrock]

i’m reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It’s a collection of short stories so maybe more accessible than his novels which are great if slightly (or very) bizarre.

Let us know how you get on, Karly Flight. I very much enjoyed Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and have Kafka On The Shore in reserve for a sunny day. I think he’s a very talented writer.[/list]

[Small Bear]

i’m reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It’s a collection of short stories so maybe more accessible than his novels which are great if slightly (or very) bizarre.

have you read it yet?! I read Kafka on the Shore and loved it, got this for my birthday and have read the first two stories…and i’mreally hoping that i was tired when i was reading them…as i have to admit i got to the end of both of them and did not have a clue what they were about!! I’d be interested to hear how you found them…

[Kingston Town]

Ian Rankin – The Black Book
I’ve had my Reginald Hill fest and finished his lot on Dalziel and Pascoe and now it’s Rankin and Rebus’ turn

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[Kingston Town]

Rebus is brilliant!!

But being a fan of Day of the Triffids (natually I’d be one of the survivors ) I am going to go out today and buy this one – Sounds fascinating

World Without Us
Weisman, Alan

Weisman writes about which objects from today would vanish without us: how our pipes, wires, and cables would be pulverized into an unusual (but mere) line of red rock; why some museums and churches might be the last human creations standing; how rats and roaches would struggle without us, and how plastic, cast-iron, and radio waves may be our most lasting gifts to the planet.
The book is also about how parts of the world already fare without a human presence: Chernoby; a Polish old-growth forest; the Korean DMZ. And, it looks at the human legacy on Earth, both fleeting and indelible.

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[The Wizard]

Polity Agent by Neal Asher – hard edged sci-fi

[Grasshopper]

Just finished "Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs" by Irvine Welsh.

The Southside, Leith-wannabe, baldy, radge is back on form with this tome – a thoroughly hilarious and excellent romp through the streets of the port (and San Francisco).

[Meshaheer]

I’m currently reading "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"

Very enlightening

[Sailing Shoes]

Relentless – Simon Kernick

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