BOOKS!

[lollipop]

Umm.... it's all for a good cause?

[Goblin King]

Yes! No, it is. No, really, and besides, it's all renewable trees they cut down for paper these days.

Besides, ask Minotaur, trees are EVIL.

[lollipop]

Also, the library books don't count. They were cut down a long time ago!

(I bought a book from the library by accident. I thought it was just a normal borrowing book, but it was on sale for 10p.)

Back to reading about mythology now, I think. (Finished the amphibians book.)

[Goblin King]

Yay - which mythologies? The Greek ones?

[lollipop]

world mythology

[Goblin King]

DnD 3.5 Dungeon Masters Guide

[Count Überquart]

I'm reading The Savage Garden. It's one of those promoted books atm. I don't like it. It's fairly boring. It's not bad, and it's easy to read, so I'm still reading it, but there doesn't seem to be a lot to it...

[Goblin King]

Sounds curiously interesting. (rings a really big bell, like I should know about it ...)

[Count Überquart]

An art student (or an Art HISTORY student) from Cambridge Uni goes to Italy to look at this Memorial Garden of his friend's Villa, Villa Docci, and he finds out about all these brutal murders that took place there, and then - predictably - he finds himself in some sort of trouble. I've not gotten very far. It's in an interesting style, or it WOULD be, if anything interesting were to happen.

[Goblin King]

Sounds like something my mum would love, in fact I bet she's read it and told me about it!
(or maybe it was one of my dodgy artist friends ;D )

[♥ Love Stoned ♥]

Yay went to Jamaica inn on holiday
Its my second favourite book of Daphne Du Mauriers
But the museum was crap... couldnt hear anything except the exhibits either side of me, as they sent too many people in. They need headphones.

[Goblin King]

You were on location! Sounds really cool.

[Count Überquart]

Reading Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. It's probably about the only book on my reading list I'll enjoy... I already gave up on Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad...

[Goblin King]

Sat'day etc. - I remember the film (I think) - socially ground breaking at the time, apparently. Aye, gritty Northerness ...
I may have to buy The Savage Garden (although I shuddered when Richard and Judy mentioned it today ...)

[Count Überquart]

DON'T BUY IT!!!

I'll give you my copy, if you like...

NORTHERN-NESS?! It's set in NOTTINGHAM!

[Goblin King]

;D Well, it was kind of Northern for the Southerners. ;D (I could be mixing it up with half a dozen other films)

Didn't you like it in the end? It sounded kind of fascinating.

[Count Überquart]

Oh, I never finished it...

I started reading Saturday etc. because it's on my list, and I've as of yet only read one book on my list...

[Goblin King]

Ug. Reading lists.
One the best things about finally getting out of eduction and college was being able to buy books for myself guilt free.

[Count Überquart]

I continued reading The Savage Garden this morning (I seem to have far too many books on the go) and it does start to get interesting around Chapter 15. It picks up pace a little bit.

[Goblin King]

I hope it's worth it. I have to be careful now when I put books down for a bit, I totally forget who everyone is.

I've bought another book by Froud about Goblins (it was heavily reduced in a damaged stock pile)
(It's pure co-incidence that I bought a book on fairies last week as well)

[lollipop]

Nottingham is North!


I'm getting into Sidney Sheldon lately.


Also just finished Fermat's Last Theorem - very cool book! ;D ;D

[Count Überquart]

Nottingham is in the MIDLANDS!

THE MIDDLE

The Savage Garden has gotten boring again

[Goblin King]

(don't start that again ;D )

I must scan some piccies from my new fairies and goblins books.

[lollipop]

Anything north of London is north! ;D ;D ;D
We get as far as Birmingham and you're practically in Scotland! ;D ;D

[Darkness]

Anyone read "Master Georgie" by Beryl Bainbridge? Was up for the Booker prize in 1998. Am supposed to have read it for book group on Friday, but haven't started it yet and my concentration level has totally deserted me. Think I will be looking at plot synopses and bluffing (again) at this rate. Oh dear.

[Count Überquart]

^ Tsk tsk tsk.

Started reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Very good. Except for the fact that he was looking "out the window". Not out OF the window, oh no... He was merely looking out it.

Grrr.

[Thrin]

Just started reading East of Eden.

*waits for it to become good*

[Goblin King]

Erm... I think I had a look at Fighting Fantasy : Crypt of the Sorceror last night ... I mean I wasn't really reading, okay, okay, I like the pictures!

[lollipop]

Dreams of Freedom: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
It's more descriptive than fast-paced (although I do like it quite a bit so I don't usually manage to read much at a time.

[Darkness]

Book group today got postponed (boo hiss). Got 2 more weeks to try to make myself read "Master Georgie" (yay).

Been revisiting some old & favourite poetry. Carole Rumens, Carolyn Askar, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, a bit of T S Eliot (I love "Preludes" and Prufrock).