I'm reading 'The Forests of Avalon' by Marian Zimmer Bradley. It's the first prequel to Mists of Avalon and so far it's very enjoyable
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I'm reading 'The Forests of Avalon' by Marian Zimmer Bradley. It's the first prequel to Mists of Avalon and so far it's very enjoyable
I am rereading "The chronicles of Thomas Covenant,the unbeliever" by Stephen R Donaldson.
Read it about 3 times and love it
Im reading about Eric Claptons life story but finding it a bit depressing.
I didn't sdk
The only reason I'm rereading it is because I love the books, I have a few I reread over the years, Moll Flanders ,The Belgariad series ( which is hopefully being made into a series in the USA,fingers crossed) ,Diving Bell and The Butterfly and K-Pax ,among a few
I will tell my eldest lad as he is an Covenant fan
many thanks sdk
Unfortunately, he's only two books in to the four for the Last Chronicles. I'm holding off starting them until book three is publlished and on my shelf with the first two gathering dust. I just can't bring myself to start and be forced to wait years in-between volumes. SRD is very deliberate in his writing but well worth the wait. That said, re-reading the first two trilogies is never a bad idea! One of my favorite series as well. :)
Currently reading:
Tad Williams - The War of the Flowers
Glen Cook - The Tyranny of the Night
the terror by dan simmons
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Oooh I forgot to say that I'm also reading Henry VIII King and Court by Alison Weir. It's just brilliant, very easy to read and I can identify nearly everything with the TV drama The Tudors. Just love Alison's books, read most of them now I think.
Have just finished Back After The Break by Anita Notaro, chick lit but an enjoyable read
I'm reading Chris Tarrant's
"Millionaire Moments"
Have read some of it every day since it turned up here
Brilliant read!! - Ta Very Much Spyder:)
I've just started reading Horrors of the Dancing Gods by Jack L Chalker. It took me a long time to find a copy so I had to re read the other 4 first. :)
Re-reading an oldie: Moving Pictures, Terry Pratchett. One of the few I'm not already word perfect on, as I don't have it as an audio book yet. :D
I'm reading No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay. A teenager wakes up to find her entire family is gone, and 25 years later she still has no idea what happened. But begins to get some clues. It's one of those mysteries that has you changing your mind throughout about "who done it".
Klj & Kitty, thanks for the recommendation - added to Audible as my next listen. :)
I'll try to remember to report back!
You must be right, because it's appeared on Audible, and is on my list for next month. I have a subscription for two titles a month on Audbile, so I get a better price that way than buying real CDs. Thanks again for the rec' - I've read a couple of write-ups and it sounds great.
Hope you enjoy it as much as Kitty and me!:)
I have just finished reading EXILE by Richard North Patterson - absolutely brilliant book - better even than Tess Gerritsen
I've just started reading 'Life is a Gift' by Gill Edwards
I regularly stock books that I want to read but had to stock up again because I sold out before I got to read the book.
Non-fiction is often better selling than fiction - almost all of my book sales on feebay and 'the big river' have been non-fiction.
Having said that - I rarely stock novels as I dont read novels.
I'm really into auto-biographies and end up selling a few while I am reading the only spare one I have.
*thinks - it's about time I opened my book store then*
I'm now reading George III by Christopher Hibbert, easy to read and very interesting
i like reading true life stories..but enjoy fiction as well...in fact ill read the sauce bottle...:D
I'm just coming to the end of The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. My continued interest in her literary heritage pleases my half-Italian girlfriend. The trouble is, now that I'm nearly at the end of it, she's started leaving copies of Dante in prominent positions around the house in an effort to get me to read that next!
I've just started Brotherhood of the Wolf by David Farland (aka Dave Wolverton).
I've just re-read the first in the series The Sum of All Men.
At the moment I cannot decide if it's a series to keep or one to read then sell.:eek:
I'm reading "Mad Cows and Mother's Milk" the Perils of Poor Risk Communication, by William Leiss and Douglas Powell.
Yeah, I know, I'm sad reading a book like that for fun, but it's really interesting, honest. It's about how corporations and governments have managed to make situations and incidents several magnitudes worse than they really are because of poor risk communication to the public - who then never trust them again, because the information vacuum created by the lack of official information is filled by special interest groups and others with an agenda. This then causes a backlash from the public completely out of proportion to any risk they have actually been exposed to.
The BSE crisis is one case, where the insistence of the government that there was no risk at all to people for so many years, flying in the face of the facts available caused a HUGE amount of damage when they were forced to admit there was a tiny chance that BSE could pass to people through eating beef. The risk was actually vanishingly tiny that any given person would get it, but after denial for so long, the public and the rest of the world didn't believe a word they said, special interest groups and scientists trying to draw attention to themselves bandied a scenario about where huge numbers of deaths would be caused, which caused the beef industry to completely crash and exports were stopped. Of course, none of this came to pass, and whilst the few deaths that there have been are regrettable, it hasn't been anything like the doomsday scenario that the organisations that filled the information vacuum were saying, and probably never would have been. It probably wouldn't have cost anything like as much to the industry or the reputation of the British government if they'd handled it properly in the first place instead of relying on total silence and a head in the sand approach.
The book also goes into the Dioxin scandals, the silicon implant scandal, and rBST plus other risk communications failures. It's a fascinating book, and an object lesson in how not to do things if you don't want to get into extreme trouble or cause panics.
I think that sounds interesting Hazel. Especially your description! I want to read one on Nudge Economics that's just come out - talks about how all these incidents and even how things are reported, actually shape our thinking and behaviour. And even changes our culture over time (lots of examples come to mind for that).
But right now I'm in the middle of re-decorating, so am doing my light reading - Addition, by Toni Jordan. About a woman with OCD who decides to try dating when she meets a guy who so interests her that she forgets to count the steps back to her home. It's actually quite funny as well as sweet. And interesting to me because of all the info. re OCD.
Yes, that sounds very similar - the media pick up on messages that the governments and corporations put out (or draw inferences from their silence), and magnify the more sensational aspects in order to sell more of their particular media. The public then react accordingly - often completely in the opposite direction to that indicated by common sense.
A friend has recommended "Cooking with Fernet Branca" - I'm not entirely sure it's my cup of tea, but am interested in trying it if I can pick up a cheap copy. Anybody want to list such a thing? Don't incur any fees in advance, just in case the price or condition aren't right, though. ;) Luckily, this is possible here. :D
I'm reading the new Mark Billingham now - any fans of his out there? His latest, In the Dark, is his first stand alone (no DI Tom Thorne) novel and is a real gritty, gripping story. Thoroughly enjoying it.
Just started Whispers in the Sand by Barbara Erskine, just 50 pages in and I'm sooo hooked. I've readed a couple of her others before and I just love her way of storytelling :)