Current reading matter

[little_r]

why do i always read this tread title as "current meter reading" - thinking it relates to my gas meter and wondering why anyone would want to know this? Clearly Dr. Hoskins's wife didn't do a very good job at curing my dyslexia!

[J.R.]

'Funeral in Berlin'

Len Deighton.

(Yes - I have read it before.)

[midget]

"Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks" Alan Coren.

LOL stuff

[Katharine]

I've just read The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, and would recommend it to anyone. It is not a barrel of laughs but thought provoking.

[kerrensimmonds]

Ditto, Katharine. I read it a couple of weeks ago (at night, whilst trying to cope with the outfall from hand surgery on 16 December). I thought that it was an excellent book, even if the closing denoument was shocking.
Kerren

[Mid A 15]

A Christmas present from one of my daughters called Scared To Death by Christopher Booker and Richard North.

It talks about unfounded hysteria and scares whipped up by media and governments over the last 20 years or so eg Millennium Bug, BSE etc and contrasts with the scandalous suppression by governments of the harm done by organophosphates such as sheep dip. Very well researched and sourced and thought provoking.

[Tim_MaA_MidB]

"Money" by Terry Pratchet

is an amusing read in current economic climate.

[kerrensimmonds]

By 'Sir' Terry...
well deserved, I would say - especially now that he has 'gone public' with his Alzheimers diagnosis. What a man.

[Katharine]

Just started reading Dreams from my Father - by Barack Obama (how soon before spellcheckers accept those two words?) I have also got The Audacity of Hope to read. They were late Christmas presents. The first, at least written long before the Presidency was in sight and I think an honest attempt to understand himself.

Let us all hope that his so very different experiences will help him lead America in a good way. The line 'The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee ..' keep on coming to my mind - I know it's from a carol and has quite a different meaning - I was educated at CH!

[kerrensimmonds]

My hairdresser, yesterday, was recommending this. His wife gave it to him for Christmas, and he says it is beautifully written and very inspiring. Apparently there are two versions - the one he wrote first, and a revised version published after he won the election.
I'm currently enjoying Julie Walters' autobiography. I suppose partly its because she's not far off my own age so I can relate to the 60's and 70's stuff. (tho I never made a plaster of paris cast of a boyfriend's privates, let alone couldn't get it off because hairs had stuck to it.....)

Edited later in the day to correct typos. I was not wearing my glasses the first time round.... oh what it is to be OLD!

[J.R.]

"Haunted Lives"

(Rev) Peter Mullen.

[kerrensimmonds]

Blimey, JR.,. Is that the same Peter Mullen who was Chaplain to the Lord Mayor and who is (or maybe was, if he has retired in the last year or so) the incumbent at St. Sepulchre's?

[J.R.]

Blimey, JR.,. Is that the same Peter Mullen who was Chaplain to the Lord Mayor and who is (or maybe was, if he has retired in the last year or so) the incumbent at St. Sepulchre's ?

His short bi-og in the fly-leaf doesn't give much away, other than he trained at Brasted in Kent and spent most of his ministry in Yorkshire, although his true (?) ghost/haunting memories cover a lot of England, though mainy Yorkshire and Kent.

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

In reply to Kerren,
1. It's GREAT being old --- you can get away with Blue Murder, --- more so if you affect a stick, with a rubber ferrule !
People are SO kind--- and wave you in front of them in queues -- !
I only discovered this when I fell over putting my Jeans on --- (Another story) and had the stick for a few days. I am thinking seriously (No split infinitive -- CH educated !) of adopting it as a permanent accessory !
Since I did a 13000ft Skydive for Charity (Diabetes UK --- now 53 years on Insulin ) for my 80th Birthday, people expect me to be able to pick things off the floor !------ What I need is "Respec' Man -- Respec' !
2. Apropos "Typos"--- Ain't it grand to have an Irish President ? President O'Bama

[J.R.]

"Waffen SS"

(The history of......)