Just finished the new Steig Larsson book. How I wish he hadn't died so soon


You might want to have a look at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, then. Read that a while ago and it's great fun (and I do like the original!)

Someone recently told me there's also "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters"!! Brilliant

I'm in biography mode. I've just finished Peter Ackroyd's Chaucer and a friend has lent me Alison Weir's book on Isabella of France, which will be interesting as she contends that Edward II wasn't murdered (hot poker) but escaped and ran away to join the Foreign Legion - well, not really that, but definitely escaped.

Over to you Aggers...

For those who love Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 you will know him.

I saw that in Waterstone's yesterday! I have 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and I agree, it is a lot of fun

At the moment, I'm reading 'Graceling', by Kristin Cashore.

Not reading, but listening to CDs of 'Sepulchre' by Kate Mosse to while away long car journeys and gridlocked traffic.
Its starting to get creepy now and I just know its a bad idea to continue because the horrors are happening in a church and it will all come back to me when I'm alone practising the organ with the dark, dark vestry just around the corner from where I sit.

Barbirolli - Conductor Laureate by Michael Kennedy

The Essential Einstein: His greatest works edited by Stephen Hawking.

Ulysses by James Joyce. For my course. I'm also reading Yeats' plays, and some TS Eliot.

As for Ulysses, I might make it a mission to come back to this thread once a week, and see how many similar posts I can make until the book changes.

The Italian Boy by Sarah Wise. It's about resurrectionists in the 1820s/30s and is really well written, giving the details and the characters of a particular case, as well as the surrounding politics and history including the work of the New Police and poverty in London.

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

I really like it, and it's especially good as in History we're currently studying the First World War. I've also re-read Private Peaceful (Michael Morpurgo) and now understand a lot more of the references in it.

Just finished re-reading Ben Elton 'The 1st casualty' - a good page turner that needed no brain power (just as well don't have any at the moment). Just about to start the new Iain Banks book that Mr B kindly bought me for my birthday.

'Fire' by Kristin Cashore 'Graceling' was fabulous!

I've just finished Ulysses! Yay!

A Concise History of Music - William Lovelock

(Although I should be mugging up theory textbooks ready for exam next week!)

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (just to remind myself what I'm missing... )

Re-reading 'Emma'

Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson

Re-reading Northanger Abbey. (upstairs book)
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross (downstairs book)

After the Golden Age, Romantic PIanism and Modern Performance by Kenneth Hamilton,

(and, rather more slowly, Handboek Financiële Markten, by Lex van der Wielen)

OOoohhhh i love books, i read all the time and i run a book club on another forum. currently i have a stack of books on my immediate reading list. these are

Toni morrison- Beloved / Love
Stepenie Meyer- THe Host
William Golding- Lord of the flies
Irvine Welsh- filth / Grime
Zadie Smith - white Teeth
Andrea Levy- everylight in the house burning
anchee min- the last empress
Tolkein - the hobbit/ lord of the rings trilogy

currently reading Toni morrison - Love....am only a few chapters in, its only a short book but in few words - not impressed

Casals & The Art of Interpretation (David Blum).

Brilliant. A book to visit over and over again. Can't wait for enough time to myself to have the book to hand, recordings in the player & sheet music in front of me. ('Cello in its usual position of course:-)

I haven't read that. Beloved was good, but my all-time favourite of hers is Song of Solomon, followed by Sula. The one I had trouble reading was Jazz.


At the moment I'm enjoying a bit of light reading with the Campion books by Margery Allingham. 1930s detective fiction, well-written and good to read, but undemanding

The Inner Game of Music.

Ooh, how are you getting on with it? I put it down after halfway through, keep thinking of giving it another go

It's very interesting. Coupled with doing Forum Concerts, it's having an effect. I started it ages ago, and got side tracked. They do have a point when they say to lose yourself in the music.

Yeah but I was concertrating so much in losing myself in the music that I couldn't lose myself in it etc etc etc... I think I think too much

Yes, I know the feeling.
At Dyrham, I tried to lose myself in the music, but kept thinking of how advanced all the others were.

sorry, off topic but are you going to Teddington?

No. I am very restricted due to children, hubby out of work, and working more.

Aw, shame, sure I'll catch you at another if I survive this one. Anyway, I'll stop hijacking the thread

'Evermore' by Alyson Noel

Super Crunchers: How anything can be predicted by Ian Ayres

Mrs S came home from the church bazaar with "Music in England" by Eric Blom. I'll give it a whirl!

Finally got my hands on The Art Of Piano Playing by Heinrich Neuhaus

Reading 'M. C. Escher' published by Taschen.....I say 'reading', but in reality it's more a case of gazing in awe at his technical prowess in creating mind blowing graphical illustrations of tessellating lizards, fish, birds..... makes my head spin, but in a good way
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Re-reading 'Kissed by an Angel' by Elizabeth Chandler, but I've just ordered 'Blue Moon' and 'Shadowland' by Alyson Noel off Amazon I'm very excited!

I am reading 'The Verdi Solution' by Kieran O'Hagan.
Its a novel set within the operations of the Social Services and Probation Dept in Liverpool, and is I suppose a bit of a mystery. There is also a character clearly equivalent to that Dutch pathlogist who stored childrens body parts. The hospital is the Alderman instead of Alderhey!
The Verdi comes from the fact that one of the main characters is an amateur choral singer whose choir are about to do the Verdi Req.

Briggflatts by Basil Bunting

Just re-read Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, an apocalyptic zombie book

I'm out of books to read. I'm just re-reading all of them because I don't have enough money to buy more

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It's OK, but nowhere near as exciting as Da Vinci Code

Just had a look through my books, and I've decided that I'll re-read Sabriel now...

Further to post 443, I have finished The Verdi Solution, in the end quite a good read, particularly for someone who knows Liverpool well or works in Social Services.
I am about to start Jane Green's 'The Beach Hut'

I've nearly finished reading Cyrano by Geraldine McCaughrean. A beautiful love story

Went to the (newly refurbished) village library on Monday and borrowed 12 books, have read 4 already...

That one is so sad and scary.

I was rereading "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm studying it, and I love it... but it made me cry - big gulping sobs in the middle of the library. SO embarrassing.

I love rereading though!

im reading 'the general' by Robert Muchamore

It is! The ending is not the one I would have chosen... I like happy endings! But we'll have to see what happens in the sequel - The Dead-Tossed Waves is it?


Me too, but I read so fast that each book is never very far away!

I've moved onto rereading Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire

I'm reading Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (expanded edition) by Brian O'Doherty





I'd really rather be reading the Ian Rankin novel lying beside the bed.. or the Guardian (excluding 'Sport') which is lying here on the sofa beside me

Have just finished reading Prosper Merimee's Carmen, a book which surprised me in many ways. I think I was expecting it to be a lot more passionate, given the Opera, and given how scandalous the book was considered at the time. However, I found the way it was written, with Don Jose telling the story to a traveller, made it come across very deadpan and matter of fact. (Although perhaps that was why it was taken as so scandalous - lots of scandalous things happening and no one really sitting in moral judgement!) There was also a far smaller list of characters than in the Opera, and I came away with a very different opinion on Carmen's character...It was interesting!

Am currently reading Christopher Isherwood's Berlin novels. I'm enjoying them, but finding that they're the sort of books I can't really afford to put down - the story is so intricate I completely lose the thread if I stop reading for more than a day, and I have to start all over again!

Just finished The Man Who Went into the West: The life of R.S.Thomas by Byron Rogers.
Currently on The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly.