Reading List

Anyone who knows me already appreciates how hard I find it not to acquire new books. I can pick them up infinitely faster than I have the capacity to read them, even when I have plenty of spare time. It's almost like the literary equivalent of fattening up over summer so that I can get through winter. Except that I am hoping that such a winter is a long way off yet.

In addition to my current reading list which includes finishing off The Vesuvius Club and then starting The Devil In Amber, both by Mark Gatiss, finishing off Children of Hurin by Tolkein (which is pretty much what I expected it would be), Zulu by Saul David, starting The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis, and Alibi by Joseph Kanon, I have others newly acquired or re-found.

I really don't know when I shall find the time to read them (and as I type this up, I realise there are around ten more downstairs I haven't read.... Hmmm.). Sorting out the cupboard at the weekend, Furtle rediscovered by just started and then misplaced copy of Kennedy: an unfinished life by the wonderfully named Robert Dallek. That goes back into the immediate pile.

For light entertainment, I have Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell, which in all honesty will probably find its way to the top of the list, followed by The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, world-renowned evangelical atheist(!), Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks, which deals with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the aftermath. I also have a copy of Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre. You may have seen this on advertising hoardings around the place recently; it deals with the improbable but true wartime story of Eddie Chapman, a conman who was caught in Europe by the Germans at the outbreak of war, trained as a spy and parachuted into Britain where he promptly turned himself over to the authorities who inducted him into the double-cross programme. He is and was the only Briton to be awarded the Iron Cross by a grateful Fuehrer... After the war he made a very good living as a crime correspondent for the Daily Telegraph...

On top of that lot, Amazon delivered me a copy of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild a biography of the darling of the silent screen and original "It" Girl, by David Stenn.

On the less literary front, I also have a nice hardback copy of Marvel's Ultimate Galactus Trilogy to get through, but I don't see that taking too long!

OK; must go. I have to have a shower and then I guess I have some reading to do!

Reading List

Anyone who knows me already appreciates how hard I find it not to acquire new books. I can pick them up infinitely faster than I have the capacity to read them, even when I have plenty of spare time. It's almost like the literary equivalent of fattening up over summer so that I can get through winter. Except that I am hoping that such a winter is a long way off yet.

In addition to my current reading list which includes finishing off The Vesuvius Club and then starting The Devil In Amber, both by Mark Gatiss, finishing off Children of Hurin by Tolkein (which is pretty much what I expected it would be), Zulu by Saul David, starting The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis, and Alibi by Joseph Kanon, I have others newly acquired or re-found.

I really don't know when I shall find the time to read them (and as I type this up, I realise there are around ten more downstairs I haven't read.... Hmmm.). Sorting out the cupboard at the weekend, Furtle rediscovered by just started and then misplaced copy of Kennedy: an unfinished life by the wonderfully named Robert Dallek. That goes back into the immediate pile.

For light entertainment, I have Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell, which in all honesty will probably find its way to the top of the list, followed by The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, world-renowned evangelical atheist(!), Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks, which deals with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the aftermath. I also have a copy of Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre. You may have seen this on advertising hoardings around the place recently; it deals with the improbable but true wartime story of Eddie Chapman, a conman who was caught in Europe by the Germans at the outbreak of war, trained as a spy and parachuted into Britain where he promptly turned himself over to the authorities who inducted him into the double-cross programme. He is and was the only Briton to be awarded the Iron Cross by a grateful Fuehrer... After the war he made a very good living as a crime correspondent for the Daily Telegraph...

On top of that lot, Amazon delivered me a copy of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild a biography of the darling of the silent screen and original "It" Girl, by David Stenn.

On the less literary front, I also have a nice hardback copy of Marvel's Ultimate Galactus Trilogy to get through, but I don't see that taking too long!

OK; must go. I have to have a shower and then I guess I have some reading to do!