Bernieboy

Typical bloodsucking scot

SillyOldBag

I'm reading Jasper Fforde's "First Among Sequels" which is living up to expectations and I'm really enjoying it! Although having said that every time I see the book, I get a bit peeved. When I'm buying a series of books I enjoy, I am a bit of a saddo and like to get them in the same size and cover editions, you know how they keep changing covers and that bugs me. Anyway, there was some problem I remember reading somewhere with the paperback edition for First Among Sequels which makes it something of a rarity unless you pay a premium, so I've been waiting for ages to buy it, I eventually did and it came in the wrong cover! I was going to send it back and grumble but I suppose life is too short ... so I've given in and I'm reading it but I'm going hunting for the right one when I eventually get back to UK - probably at the rate of my savings in about 20 years

Pollyana

Any of you bookworms got anything to add for Sue's latest project?

See the announcement at the top of the forums at present,

She wants to start a list of Britishexpats recommended reading books.

So if you've read any good books about moving, living and working abroad, and think other people may find the book useful please send Sue a Private Message with the title of the book you are recommending and why.

Scubaemma

Just finished 'Before I Go To Sleep' by SJ Watson. It's about a woman who has amnesia and has to be told who she is etc every morning when she wakes up by her husband.

I really enjoyed it (although enjoy seems the wrong word!). It was her debut novel as well. Very good.

I hate finishing a good book! It's like losing a friend!

scottishcelts

What's it about again?

scottishcelts

Now onto the next book in the Vampire Chronicles - Body Thief.

I'm hooked.

Bernieboy

Oh imagine the fun you could have with yer missus every morning(dirty BE minds already whirring).

GilraenH

Tolkien, Lord of the Rings/Hobbit. (hence the moniker), any fantasy books; Wheel of Time series/HP/Twilight etc.

Desert Island books though are the Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett, I read them every 10 years since I was 16 years old. I think I have been in love with Francis Crawford most of my life..............

SillyOldBag

I've just read Kathy Reichs' "206 Bones" and then "Mortal Remains/Spider Bones" back to back. At a bit of a literary impasse now and don't know what to read. I have loads I could read but I can't decide what .... decision is pending while I ponder.

SillyOldBag

I've just finished "Timeless" by Gail Carriger which is the last of the Parasol Protectorate series. I really enjoyed the series, lightweight entertainment but good fun. I'm not generally into vampire/werewolfy type books but these were so out of the ordinary that they worked for me.

Just moving on to Robin Hobb's Ship of Magic which should shut me up for a while Nothing beats escaping into a good book ... actually that's bullshit, plenty would be better but for now it suffices

eddie007

Still trying to read The Bolyn Inheritance.. Or legacy... Three weeks in and I cant concentrate long enough to read more than a page... Its a bloody good book that normally I'd have finished in a day or two...

Having to stick to my quilting porn... Colourful pictures of beautiful quilts in magazines... Just uncovered another boxful in the garage that I'd marked for "out" because at the time I wasnt machine quilting... So revisiting with a new perspective...

Bernieboy

I've just finished reading the Koran,you christians are in deep shit now

scottishcelts

you were born a christian, so same applies to you.

Bernieboy

Don't mess with me infidel,and put yer veil back on

PS,nobody is born christian :P

scottishcelts

According tae yer family - aye ye wur!