A list of books

[tadorna]

Here is a list of all the books lying around cluttering up my bedroom in a state of unreadness/half-readness:

• Prime, Poppy Z Brite


• Untold Stories, Alan Bennett


• The Rough Guide to Classical Music


• Doctor Who, Kim Newman


• The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon


• Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times


• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy L Sayers


• Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman


• Never the Bride, Paul Magrs


• The Ode Less Travelled, Stephen Fry


• Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel


• The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova


• Summoned by Bells, John Betjeman


• The Taste of Britain, Laura Mason and Catherine Brown

I also have one on its way from eBay, plus a number of ebooks stored on my flash drive, just in case...

EDIT: Actually, now I look at it, that list is disappointingly small. I must go and buy more books!

Comments

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

a duck story for you:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6283677.stm

b.x :)

[gramarye1971]

*waves Alan Bennett flag* Untold Stories is great.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

omg, thanks! I love duck stories! :)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? That's one of the ones I've actually started reading. His writing about his parents, in particular, I found very moving.

[lazulus]

Paul Magrs wrote a rather lyrical teenage novel that I am very fond of. :)

You should see my TBR pile! Every now and again our book group category is for each of us to read one from our piles. ;)

[gramarye1971]

Have you read Writing Home? I can't recall if you have or not. Definitely worth reading, if you haven't already.

I was particularly moved by his account of his treatments for bowel cancer -- it's personal and moving without making you feel like a voyeur as you're reading it. That takes particular skill, I think.

[natika.livejournal.com]

It's always good to have many unread books around, in case of emergencies!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't read that - I shall have to put it on my list for when I finish this one.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I know of that one, although I haven't read it. I bought this after reading an interesting piece about him in the paper. I knew his name from various Doctor Who novels I haven't actually read (plus I knew he'd written a DW audio play called 'Horror of Glam Rock'). This is about the Bride of Frankenstein, who now goes by the name of Brenda and runs a B&B in Whitby. How the hell was I supposed to resist?

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Exactly! :)

[lazulus]

There is abslutely no way you could have resisted in the face of sucvh temptation!

I think I knew he wrote DW novels! Bizarre. O.o

[shirecreature.livejournal.com]

I read The Historian, it was pretty good, very beautifully descriptive.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I love the eclecticism.