A Drink With Shane MacGowan
From A Buick 8 - Stephen King

HI,

Andrew Greig is excellent - loved Electric Brae!

I read The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail - interesting theories!

Now on Moby Dick - classic but the use of english is incredible.

C

Hmm really fancy reading a book, which is very rare for me... thing is i havent a clue what to read

Reading 'Skye Scrambles' ...roll on August

I just finished reading "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. Always a good thriller writer, in this fiction novel he blends scientific fact with action to give us another view on global warming. He backs up his facts with footnotes and an extensive bibliography letting you know where he got his info. He also took the time to write an author's message at the end of the story to let you know what he thinks, personally, about the whole theory.
A very interesting book.

Oh, and I also just read "McCarthy's Bar" by Pete McCarthy. He's a travel writer, and while traipsing around Ireland made it a point to stop in at every bar with his last name. Very funny stuff and I and my husband can't wait to visit!

Saturday - Ian McEwan

Living with Wildlife - David Stephens (man who founded a country park in Cumbernauld). Really nice book with some great stories featuring tame versions of Scotlands wildlife (all true stories) and some rescue stories which will no doubt have some of you in tears. The bit that got me the most was where the book describes the aftermath of vandals breaking into the park and maiming many of the animals. The author well describes the horror of watching his hand tame weasel dragging itself back to his house after the vandals broke his pelvis and killed its mate.
There are lots of funny stories as well though like of the young horse that was obsessed with chasing crows, a tame wildcat tom and its psychopath mate and a goose called Polar which crash landed on the authors shoulder during a photo-shoot at the park.

I don't think the book is in print any more though.

Go round a book shop - have a cup of coffee and have a look at what appeals. Alternatively look in The Works - they have a reasonable selection or the market book stalls or charity shops they have good selections. There is always the liabrary - costs you no money.

As to what to buy that will depend on your mood - fiction or non fiction, deadly serious or funny, thriller or soppy, heavy or light the list is endless.

Me I've had a Harry Potter splurge, I'm reading some light thrillers I'm not sure if they are suposed to be funny but they amuse me. My pending pile ( 3ft high ) has factual (Shackleton), The Shetland Bus, and the stroy of one of the Shetland Bus captains, historical fiction ( Diana Gabaldon) celtic fairy tales, and scottish mountaineering tales.

I love to read fantasy books: Terry Goodkind series is a grown up version of Harry Potter (I love Harry Potter, too).

I also love to read the the Tony Hillerman mysteries of the Four Corners section of the southwest. They are very "easy" to read and true to native american's.

Anne Rice has a few good vampire books, and if you like them I have some more recommendations for vampire books.

I find that I get "lost" if I go to a book store without some intended direction, so write down some recommendations when you go, just to get started.

Pamela

I prefer books to films. I also like train journeys so I can read!

Now started This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson ......based on real events between 1828 and 1865 ....

'Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just 23. He takes a passenger, a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between 2 men and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...'

'wheel of time' - book 1 - robert jordan

Which one did you like best? I absolutely LOVE "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"!! Foer is a genius!!!

Currently I am reading "De Profundis" by Oscar Wilde.

Yay!! Potter ROCKS!! I'm so afraid of the seventh book. Afterwards it will just all be over...