Reading my weight in books update
Sunday 6th December 2009 5:36 pm
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb
I’ve had this on my bookshelf for ages and hadn’t got round to reading it. When And Another Thing… was the Book at Bedtime on Radio 4 it seemed like a good thing. Although it was written before the film came out which confused me at first. It was really interesting. A lot of it I knew bits about it, but it was good to get more information.
The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of my Father by Jim Wight
I really liked this. When I first read the books I didn’t even realise that he’d changed the names of any of the people in it. It was only recently, when I watched all of All Creatures Great and Small that I looked on the internet and found out more. This book was really interesting to find out more about the people in the vet books, what they were really like and what James Herriot’s life was really like.
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
I liked this much more than the TV series because I got confused between all the characters on screen. Although a lot of things in the book confused me – for example instead of writing 2nd it had 2d and it took me a while to work out that did mean second and wasn’t just some sort of code. There were all sorts of names in there I’d never heard of and I never got to grips with the different elements of the US army. And, of course, being an American book, the Americans won the war. But on the whole it was interesting to read about what it was really like and what the people were like.
Spooks: Harry’s Diary
There’s nothing quite like a new series of Spooks starting to make me want to re-read this. It was long enough ago that I’d forgotten bits. It was quick and easy to read, but has been outdated by the last few series because it doesn’t mention Lucas or Connie anywhere in it.
Spooks: The Personnel Files
I’ve had this for a while, but had only read the section on Harry. The rest were really interesting and it was good to see how they tied into each other and the episodes. I did get a bit sick of all these people getting 1st from Oxbridge until I got to Danny who sounded a lot more normal in terms of his exam results.
Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey
This was hard going. The first part in this trilogy was hard enough, but it was long enough ago that I read it that I’d forgotten who some of the characters are. This one being the second in the trilogy meant that even less happened in this one. The third looks like it’ll be set in a new location, so that might be more interesting, once I get hold of it (I can’t quite bring myself to pay money for it just at the moment).
The Bad Mother’s Handbook by Kate Long
The Colour of Love by Preethi Nair
While I was ill I decided I needed something easy to read and really wanted something that wasn’t science fiction, fantasy, crime, children’s or a classic. So of my book collection that’s here, that left these two. I enjoyed them just as much the second time round. I feel like I need more books that are just straight fiction, as long as I can narrow down what I might like.
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