Still to come on the blog when I get some time to catch up - reviews of The Dilemma, The Next Three Days and some thoughts on the Oscar nominations, together with some thoughts on why I won't be voting SNP in May.
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Book Plug #2
OK - keeping up with my New Year's resolution to introduce a vaguely literary element to this blog. This is what I'm reading at the moment:
"It began with my father not wanting to see the Last Rabbit, and ended up with me being eaten by a carnivorous plant". Thus begins Shadesof Grey by Jasper Fforde, set in a future Britain not quite our own where society is ordered by the level of colour perception people have. Its possibly slightly less immediately accessible than the Thursday Next or Nursery Crime Division novels as the establishing of the world takes a little time, but its none the worse for that and might prove to offer something a bit deeper at the end of the day. That said Fforde still displays his usual inventiveness, wit and fun and this a thoroughly engaging and enjoyable read and I'm loving it.
Still to come on the blog when I get some time to catch up - reviews of The Dilemma, The Next Three Days and some thoughts on the Oscar nominations, together with some thoughts on why I won't be voting SNP in May.
Still to come on the blog when I get some time to catch up - reviews of The Dilemma, The Next Three Days and some thoughts on the Oscar nominations, together with some thoughts on why I won't be voting SNP in May.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
New Year's Resolution and Book Plug No. 1
Happy New Year to you all. For me 2011 arrived in good company with champagne in Paris, which is a promising start. I've got to admit that I'm not a great one for New Year's Resolutions, but this year I've decided that I want to get back into reading more. In addition to trying to work my way through the backlog of books building up on my shelves, I'm intending to occasionally put on here plugs for good books I'm reading when I come across.
So first up is one of those book's that I've been meaning to get round to for a while: The Five People You Will Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. I started it on the plane back from Paris two days ago and am already well-over halfway through it and thoroughly enjoying it. Its quite a light read and very accessible, but at the same time rather thought-provoking.
"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time".
"No life is a waste... The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"
So first up is one of those book's that I've been meaning to get round to for a while: The Five People You Will Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. I started it on the plane back from Paris two days ago and am already well-over halfway through it and thoroughly enjoying it. Its quite a light read and very accessible, but at the same time rather thought-provoking.
"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time".
"No life is a waste... The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"
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