On a slightly more candyfloss note book-wise - though there's nowt wrong with candyfloss - I've just been re-reading The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris - the not-quite-a-sequel to Chocolat.

It's the perfect book to bring out the latent witch in every woman

I call it candyfloss in comparison to the debate on whether poetry loses its essential meaning and flavour when it's translated into another language. I didn't mean it in an inferior sense - there's a place for candyfloss AND meatier slabs of erm..... nourishment??? I dunno, can't think of the right word...

Oh and I've read Mister Pip - thanks to Darkle for the nudge - had been trying to read it for a bit but had other reading that I 'had' to do for big school. I really enjoyed it - quirky, and one of those great books that make a part of the world that you may not have given a second thought to previously, stay lodged in your mind afterwards.

Just noticed I forgot to put name of the author of the book on sailing barge rigging on my last post, Doh. It is by Frank Cooper. I hope I do better at remembering how to rig the barge.

Just finished reading Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb - first read it in a Reader's Digest Condensed volume when I was about 11 and it has, without drama, haunted me ever since. They made it into a film starring Robert Mitchum, directed by Charles Laughton I think, and it really did justice to the book.

Found a second hand copy in the student union book sale - it's a book that highlights so well the loneliness children can feel when they're burdened with stuff beyond their years - it stays with you long after reading it. Not what you'd call the most comfortable read - it's dark, and scary, but you have to keep reading because the suspense is too much.

Sometimes when you revisit a book that made an impression on you when you were a kid, it falls flat. This definitely didn't. Harry Powell has to be one of the creepiest men in book and cinema history. Forget blood and gore for chilling you - this book does it without any need of anything like that, just through the eyes of a young lad.

Going to try and find a copy of the film now - just to scare meself a bit more, y'see?

The Weeping Women Hotel by Alexei Sayle.

I've only read one of his books - Overtaken - previously, and although it started off really well, and was quite unique, it sort of lost the plot, or I did. So far WWH is much more accomplished - brilliantly descriptive, quirky, strange and often uncomfortable reading. I think I'll go and read some more.

The last Continent by Terry Pratchett

I have just restarted Frazer's The Golden Bough because I got about half way through and stopped many months ago.
I don't recall a single word, so this time best I pay more attention, eh?

Tales of Beddington village - Clayton Cook

a little book about the history of the place i grew up in

skaa'd for life by horace painter the original bass player wi the specials

I'm currently reading the diary of anne frank...again!
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The Last Juror - John Grisham
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Just been re-reading some Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train. I had the Ripley book a while back but lent it to someone and never got it back. She makes for quite uncomfortable reading sometimes - draws you right into the mindset of this man totally without conscience, you find yourself almost liking him, certainly feeling sorry for him - then you start worrying in case you have psychopathic tendencies too!!

Not actually reading it at the moment, but I've just bought 'Nobody Likes You' by Marc Spitz, which is the story of Green Day.

It only cost me £1.99 as well
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Mrs Licoln - Janis Cooke Newman which I've just started and I've got Jack The Ripper Diaries, which someone gave to me. Don't know whether I'll read it or not.

Chris Ryan - The Watchman

Awesome book about a rogue SAS agent..
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

Beautiful wordsmithing - enjoying it thoroughly.

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