Leonie2
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What are you reading?I haven't had time for reading in a long while. But yesterday I took S and J to indoor soft play (it poured with rain most of the day) and took a book along with me. It's one in the series that Gill recommended to me it's called A Drake at the Door by Derek Tangye. It follows on from A Gull on the Roof which I read last year and thoroughly enjoyed. A Gull on the Roof is about a couple who give up the rat race and everything they have to move to Cornwall to grow flowers and potatoes, I think it's in the 60s. A Drake at the Door is a follow on from the first book and I'm enjoying what I've read so far.
So is anyone else reading anything at the moment that you'd recommend or not recommend?
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Lizzie
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I've just finished the Lord of the Rings (again!) - after watching the film and listening to the CDs, it was nice to get back to the original, with all the characters that were missed out of the dramatisations. I think that was about the 15th time I've read it...
Now I'm reading The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld, which OH gave me for my birthday. It's a thriller about Freud's only visit to America and so far it's looking good.
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Cabbagepatch
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I've just finished An Extraordinary Woman by Margaret Forster. Really fascinating diary of a woman started in 1918 and lasted until the 1980's.
Now looking for some inspiration because there isnothing quite like a good book and a mug of hot milk at bedtime!
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Kathy
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2 books at the moment, an easy to read crime mystery and "Healing with whole foods" Paul Pitchford. It takes more concentration and is such an illuminating book. None of "you can't have this or that", it just tells you what food ACTUALLY does in your body so informed choices can be made. A fair bit of history about food throughout the ages, all well researched and referenced. I would recommend this to anyone who really cares about the food/mind/body relationship. 
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mrutty
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Just finished the first two Paul Heiney books on farming with horses.
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nanny-now and forever
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| mrutty wrote: | | Just finished the first two Paul Heiney books on farming with horses. |
used to live down the road from him, often saw him in the local feed merchants...was devestated when he gave it up
i am two thirds through susan howatch's "sins of the fathers" i think i ready the first one "the rich are different" years ago
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mrutty
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You have ruined it now, I didn't know he'd quit. DAMN!!!!!
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alison
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I read about this in the paper a couple of years ago. He had an agreement with Libby Purvis that he would conduct this experiment / way of farming for 10 years, then if she wanted he would go back to life in suberbia.
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mrutty
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Damn 
Ali, have you thought of selling the tractor and getting horses??? 
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alison
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No!
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mrutty
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But it would be nice to have a heavy horse centre in Devon. Think of all the visitors
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alison
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Can't see a shire horse deliviering a double axel caravan though! Or collecting the bull from Umberleigh.
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Daisy Bell
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At he moment i am reading Auschwitz by lauran rees.
Its a very good book it has interviews with ss men and first hand accounts of the true horrors in which the prisoners went through.
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Becki
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I'm reading Monty Don's gardening book and can't remember the title 
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nanny-now and forever
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i am now reading the interrperataion of murder as well and i am really enjoying iti don't like really gory murder stories...
i like something with a bit of innocence in it for lack of a better phrase
that's why i read lord peter wimsey and brother cadfael and those type of things.....
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mc55
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I'm reading 'a woman's place is in the boardroom' ... it's not very gripping.
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Somerset Lad
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I am reading, again, Rick Steins food heros.
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lloyd
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I'm about to start "Change your life in seven days", but trying hard to approach it with the right attitude, as I'm not too sure about these life coaching books. Otherwise, Shooting Times and Land Rover World.
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nanny-now and forever
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| lloyd wrote: | | I'm about to start "Change your life in seven days", but trying hard to approach it with the right attitude, as I'm not too sure about these life coaching books. Otherwise, Shooting Times and Land Rover World. |
i have to say i never believe them much
you have to think positively about what ever changes you decide to make and then run with it
ours took 10 years, forget the 7 days
i would imagine the book is all about positive thinking isn't it?
and maybe networking..........networking is big just now......
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lottie
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I am reading my way through a series of books by Alexander McCall Smith - I didn't think they would me 'my thing' but bought them at a charity fair because I liked the colourful African art work on the covers
I know - and it was totally out of character - but they are a really good read, and full of humour!
Makes a nice change!
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Kathy
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Just finished Chris Ryan "The hit list" and am still reading "Healing with wholefoods". Just going to start a Harlan Coben book along with a daily look at my organic gardening/companion planting/food from your garden books!
I love listening to and reading Wayne Dyer as a motivational tool. He's very good at what he does and what he says makes sense.
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lloyd
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| nanny wrote: |
i would imagine the book is all about positive thinking isn't it?
and maybe networking..........networking is big just now...... |
Dunno. Going to start the first chapter the day before I stat my new job on Easter Monday. God Willing. Just reading the Kama Sutra before bed.
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Kathy
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Becki
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Indeed
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nanny-now and forever
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[quote="lloyd"] | nanny wrote: |
Just reading the Kama Sutra before bed. |
you think it can teach you anything you don't already know?
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Cabbagepatch
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| lloyd wrote: | | nanny wrote: |
i would imagine the book is all about positive thinking isn't it?
and maybe networking..........networking is big just now...... |
Dunno. Going to start the first chapter the day before I stat my new job on Easter Monday. God Willing. Just reading the Kama Sutra before bed. |
He's going to need an awful lot of positive thinking laterwhen he finds himself locked in the dog run for the night
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Cabbagepatch
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I'm reading Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope which the children gave me for my birthday. Its about empty nest syndrome and the grownup children all coming back home to live.......
Also dipping in and out of Alan Titchmarsh veg growing book and a bit of John Seymour.
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alison
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2nd honeymoon and the Karma Sutra! 
No one bother CP and Lloyd!
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