Posts under ‘Books and Reading’

The next Disability Blog Carnival will be hosted later this week by Retired Waif. It’s theme is death/spirituality/end of life issues. Which is something I’ve been thinking about lately and so is an apt theme for me.
Margo, who writes over at Funky Mango’s Musings, is doing a PhD on physically disabled people’s attitudes [...]

The final topic for The Friendly Book Nook’s Summer Reading Extravaganza is “Oh The Places You’ll Go - with a book!
Otherwise known as books that transport you to a new place or a different place.
Travel writing is GREAT for that and probably the best of all that I have read is Down Under by Bill [...]

The next topic for the reading extravaganza is Fun Reading Activities.  And I don’t really do any of those.  I would love to join a book group and should really make more of an effort to see if I could find one to go to.  But it’s one of those things you put on the [...]

Today is Summer Reading for Children day of the Reading Extravaganza.  And as I don’t have kids I thought I would tell you about some of my favourite books from when I was a child and some of the allegedly teen books that I still read now.
And writing this post, the first person who comes [...]

Today’s topic for the Summer Reading Extravaganza is Fun Summer Reads.
First I should probably start by saying that my Books in 2008 page as linked over in my sidebar needs a serious update, I have eight, almost nine, books to add to the finished list.  That’s my job when I’m finished here I think.
Books that [...]

I just discovered a new to me blog, The Friendly Book Nook. I can see me losing a lot of time there in the near future reading some of the stuff they have there.   It’s all about books and reading and well, if you’ve been reading my blogs for a while you’ll know just how [...]

I pretty much spent all of yesterday reading A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell.  It was a recommendation of Dave’s and I can really see why he recommended it.  To everyone who told me they wouldn’t have time to read this book before the book club - make the time!! You’re not going [...]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. [...]

I’ve spent most of this weekend reading - I read Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Amazing book.  Not always easy to read (because of the topics and themes it has in places) but amazing nonetheless.
From the beginning I thought the end was obvious.  I was wrong.  It didn’t end in the cliched and obvious way I [...]

This is really of no relevance whatsoever but I just thought it was interesting.
Arthur C. Clarke died today.  And what am I reading at the moment?  Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. Picked it up yesterday and I’m about 50 pages in.  It seems good so far and I’m hoping it lives [...]