Happy the man...

[venta]

1. What did you last read? Bad Heir Day - Wendy Holden
2. What are you reading now? The Dean's Watch - Elizabeth Goudge
3. What do you plan to read next? One of the many, many books I've borrowed and really should return. Probably Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco.
4. What would you like to read, but don't have? The unabridged diaries of Anthony Wood.
5. What would you recommend for others to read? The Stonor Eagles - William Horwood (because it's very good, and I reckon many people will have missed it because it's a children's book). The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey (because I re-read it over Christmas and remembered how good it is, and it makes a very important point about people's conception of history).
6. What's your favourite book from childhood? Three Legions - Rosemary Sutcliffe(OK, that's technically a trilogy (Eagle of the Ninth/The Silver Branch/The Lantern Bearers), but it's all in one volume, so I'm allowed to count it as a book).
7. What book last made you laugh? I laughed slightly reading Night Watch - Terry Pratchett over Christmas.
8. What book last made you weep? I'm not sure. I recently re-read The Heaven Tree - Edith Pargeter, and that certainly made me cry when I originally read it. I'm not sure whether it did this time or not.
9. What book last made you angry? Bad Heir Day - Wendy Holden. People shouldn't be encouraged to foist such 2D, caricatured, flimsy cack on the unsuspecting public.


(Stolen from neilh).

Comments

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

read Foucault's Pendulum, let no other option enter your mind

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is that a genuine recommendation, or merely an elaborate literary joke which I won't get til I've read it :)

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

very much a genuine recommendation- my brain is too fuzzed by six hours straight solitaire to attempt literary jokes . . .

[grumblesmurf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll second that - good book (if you like that sort of thing, of course).

[venta.livejournal.com]

I apologise, I'm actually reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves. This is because (a) I'd just been given it as a late Christmas present (b) it's quick to read, and mostly (c) it was right next to the bed, while I'd have had to get up and walk around to get Foucault's Pendulum.

That next, though, honest.

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

fair enough, FP definitely doesn't fit into category (b) I must admit . . .

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry about Bad Heir Day.

[venta.livejournal.com]

S'ok - you warned me it was experimental. Give it a try yourself (I've left it there) and tell me what you think ;)