What are you reading?

No Graves as Yet by Anne Perry

He's good! My ex got me that book when it first came out and said you gotta read this. YOU could have written it. Everything he wrote about, I had been telling her for years. It was spot on.

I especially liked the one The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America and  A Short History of Nearly Everything.

He has a way with putting words together. After reading the Downunder book, I really really wanted to go and visit.

Really odd thing though, I do remember buying Mother Tongue but never made the connection when his more light-hearted books were published until my ex turned me on to his other works.

Here's an animated clip of a passage out of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid! . Next on my list after I finish Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/flat/home.php

If you come to Bath, he's written a commentary for the guided tour of the Roman Baths. Although I've been there THREE(!) times I haven't listened to his yet. I keep meaning to check it out one of these days.
I gave my BF Notes from a Big Country before he came to the US for the first time. He thought it was hilarious!

If you come to Bath, he's written a commentary for the guided tour of the Roman Baths. Although I've been there THREE(!) times I haven't listened to his yet. I keep meaning to check it out one of these days.
I gave my BF Notes from a Big Country before he came to the US for the first time. He thought it was hilarious!

I'll bear that in mind. I was trying to find an online version of that...but I discovered that he is fairly well acclaimed

Aventis Prize for Science Book winner for A Short History of Nearly Everything

appointed Chancellor of Durham University

awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to literature

awarded the James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.

Cool.

I just started "The Ghost" by Robert Harris.  I have a feeling that I will spend my weekend with this.

The South Beach Diet...ha ha ha

Just finished The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella and loved it, so funny!

Just finished The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella and loved it, so funny!

Oh! Didn't she write Shopaholic series? I loved her books, I'll have to check this one out.

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

The South Beach Diet...ha ha ha

I loved that book! Yummy recipes and I lost 8 pounds. Got it all back though...

I'm now reading 'The Bell Jar' again, read it last at 13 and now I see how funny it actually is.

I recently finished The Lovely Bones, OMG how sad

I recently finished The Lovely Bones, OMG how sad

Oh yes...I remember that one.  Ditto 

Just bought Zadie Smith, On Beauty.

I recently finished The Lovely Bones, OMG how sad

Yeah, I felt the same way about that one. It was good tho.

I'm now reading 'The Bell Jar' again, read it last at 13 and now I see how funny it actually is.


OK, it was funny for the first hundred pages and then not at all. Very good though. I had forgotten most of it!

Just finished "The Memory Keeper's Daughter"

Mrs Harris Goes to New York by Paul Gallico.