I measured and wrote myself a list of what I'd read before I moved but didn't quite get round to an update, so there's been quite a few books since the last update and I am now at:

110.7cm / 155cm (71.4%)

Star Trek: New Frontier 12: Being Human by Peter David
I've mentioned this book before. I liked the New Frontier series at first and I've missed books 5-11, which I'm thinking is a good thing, because this one bored me. I just can't bring myself to care about any of these characters any more. Or any of the plots.

Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal by Jacqueline Rayner
I loved this one. Benny gets body-swapped into a bloke and hilarity ensues. It's exactly what you'd imagine being a bloke is like, when faced with a pretty girl. And the ways Benny tried to deal with it were funny as well, typical Benny really.

Doctor Who: Endgame by Terrance Dicks
The trouble with this one was that it's Eighth Doctor, who I don't like outside of the audios, and the plot follows on from some other books I haven't read. So I was hopelessly lost. And the Doctor wasn't even being like the Doctor, for which I gather there is a reason. I just can't really bring myself to read any more EDAs just at the moment.

Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus by Dave Stone
This one took quite a long time to get going, once it did it was interesting. The plot was complicated, so kept me entertained with its twists and turns. I didn't like it as much as the other Benny BF book I read but this was alright.

A Simple, Decent Place to Live by Millard Fuller
This is about Habitat for Humanity by the guy who started it up. A friend of mine lent it to me since I'm thinking of going on one of their trips (really must get round to signing up) and it was quite interesting to hear how it all started. It was very American and Christian orientated though, so there were large parts of it I skim-read.

Growing Pains by Billie Piper
This had good reviews and I read the first chapter while waiting for a train, so when I saw it half price in Smiths, for which I had a gift voucher from work, I bought it. And I'm glad I did because I couldn't put it down. Before she was in Doctor Who no-one ever took any notice of her, because the records she'd made were so abysmal. She agrees with what everyone said about them at the time, so that made me like her. It was really interesting to hear about her family and her life as a pop star. And by interesting, I also mean horrible, because it didn't sound nice at all.

The Good Women of China by Xinran
This is the sort of book that gives you nightmares, it was horrible. It's written by a woman who was a radio presenter in China and she went and found out what women's lifes were like in China. And they were more horrible than you can ever imagine. It's the attitude to women over there at the time, along with the attitude you were forced to have towards the Party that is just impossible to imagine. So it was very enlightening.

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