Lord, I'm bored now I finished my latest Christopher Brookmyre - can't seem to concentrate on proper literature these days - which is not to knock it, he's a great thriller writer. Bookshops baffle and confuse because they offer Too Much Choice, I end up walking in, wandering round and walking straight out again. Anybody read anything good they want to swap with me? One Christopher Brookmyre coming your way if you want it...
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I have spent a long time reading all 3 of the Baroque Trilogy and Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson which are ace but very long. Good short books I have read recently that I would recommend include The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby.
My flatmate loves him (so does Patroclus) but she always buys hardbacks, they're always enormous and you can't read them in the bath.
Aargh, Nick Hornby...!
Recently mentioned 'Cold Skin' and would definitely recommend it. Also just finished 'The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters' and it was brilliant - 'ravishing and fabulous'...though in hardback at 750 pages it would probably fall in the bath...
(Hardback - is that where all my money's going??)
Yay! The Aubrey Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian! Start with 'Master and Commander'. Pay no attention to the movie. They are fab!
Also big fan of Brookmyre - apparently he's really tall.
Oooh I love Christopher Broomkyre books. I was in Edinburgh last week, and talking to the folk from our office reminded me of the glossary at the end of the last book. I can't seem to read anything proper these days either, although I did read Paradise Postponed recently - does that count?
Am currently reading an Agatha Raisin story - they are completely silly and totally written for US audiences but they had me hooked at the title of the first book; "Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death". Who needs higbrow when you've got that!?!
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