got a book delivered this morning...Country Lore & Legends by Jennifer Westwood. I wont be able to r ead it yet though as not finished the other book yet

The Autobiography of a Super-tramp - W. H. Davies

The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson

Stephan Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls

Hello all,

I have just finished The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark. I enjoyed it myself.. just wondered what other people felt about it?

Also while i was skimming down the list i saw a post saying that younger people do not like the classics. I for one do (although not sure if 24 is still considered young) and so do all my friends. Many a happy night sat in reading from the age 5 onwards!

The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy

Finished Fry's book, not bad at all.
Started my favoutite Michael Connelly - The Brass Verdict today...Review later

Reminiscences by Anton Lang
(Christus in the Omerammergau Passion Plays for 1900, 1910 & 1922)
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
(Jack Benny)

I've just finished reading A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

I bought it from charity shop for 20p. I'd heard about the book but never read it. The author commited suicide, aged 32, because he couldn't get it published.

His mother sent the manuscript to an english teacher who, after reading it, agreed to help her get it published.

It is really well written and manages to weave together the stories of a cross-sections of a tense 60's New Orleans.

I couldn't put it down and I couldn't stop myself from giggling at parts.

In my opinion it is a fantastic read, get a copy now! If you ask me nicely I may even post my copy to you!

I'm reading the Annie Proulx latest 'Fine Just The Way It Is'

Great stories, though I can't help but feel she's got a little comfortable in her Wyoming stories...

I'm also re-reading 'Actual Air', by David Berman, the only book of poetry I'd happily be seen in public with.

Reading Paul Kingsnorths 'One No, Many yeses'

You can get it for like 3 quid on Amazon.co.uk not sure about elsewhere.

But it's a book about the globalization resistance movement worldwide. He actually travels and tells tales of his experiences with of course a great blend of history and such thrown in.

It's a really great read and next I'm going for Howard Zinn's a peoples history of the United States.

Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming

Spreading The Word - Simon Blackburn (3rd attempt)

Pride and Prejudice.....again!!!!

brave new world, hence my pseudonym.

the book is amazing will definitely read again and again.