What Are You Currently Reading

[Bing Buzby]

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
(Las venas abiertas de América Latina)

Excellent stuff, but Christ, if you ever thought that Scots have a chip on their shoulder......

[banjo]

my placepot slip for kempton park,and it does not read well.

[Lucky Poet]

Scotland on Sunday. Not that I usually do, but hey.

[Mori]

Didnt know where else to put this...

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Release ... 3/03100105

Dolly’s gift to Scots kids

06/03/2011



Scotland's looked after children are to receive a free book every month until their fifth birthday thanks to a new partnership with country and western superstar Dolly Parton.

The Dollywood Foundation has been working nine to five with the Scottish Government and Scottish B ook Trust to bring the Imagination Library to Scotland.

[jodieohdoh]

Dolly’s gift to Scots kids

I adore Dolly. What a woman- as long as it's not a trick to shove religion down little kids' throats, I'm delighted.

[RDR]

'A History of Scotland' by Neil Oliver.
Not too bad at all.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Homicide by david simon.

[rabmania]

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (I don't get near understanding most of it), propounding string theory.

[HollowHorn]

I'm working my way through Larry McMurtry's old west tales, it's a blissful thing.

[Bing Buzby]

The Bride Stripped Bare - Anonymous.

Been reading too many 'serious' books recently and so this one tickled my interest. Hope it lives up to my low expectations.

[minxy]

Alice in Wonderland, I have never read it before. It is either a story that just meandered about, making its own path by pure accident, or there is some deeper meaning to it.
It's like stories your big brother or sister told you when you were a wee one, and the just made it all up as they went along, remembering bits and pieces to fit into the story later, to make it look like it makes sense
I really enjoyed it, it was mad and free.

[dimairt]

Just finished Chris Mullin's "Decline and Fall," now reading "Strange Days Indeed - the Golden Age of Paranoia" by Francis Wheen. If you enjoyed "How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the World", then you'll like this too.

Durachdan,

Eddy

[fiain]

I very much enjoyed "How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the World", so I'll look out for this one, thanks dimairt.
Just finished "Random" by Craig Robertson. A serial killer is on the loose in Glasgow! Told from an interesting viewpoint: that of the killer himself. Good read, recommended.
Just started "Zoo Station" by David Downing. An English journalist working in Berlin in early 1939 is 'persuaded' to become a spy for both the Soviet Union and the British. Promising.

[Bridie]

Alice in Wonderland, I have never read it before. It is either a story that just meandered about, making its own path by pure accident, or there is some deeper meaning to it.
It's like stories your big brother or sister told you when you were a wee one, and the just made it all up as they went along, remembering bits and pieces to fit into the story later, to make it look like it makes sense ::):
I really enjoyed it, it was mad and free.

Minxy! deeper meanings by the bucketload
I recently re read George MacDonalds Princess books ..the Goblin ...and Curdie - and what a delight - I still have the hardbacks from the 60's and the illustrations are gorgeous. McDonald, so they say, influenced Tolkein, Lewis and Carroll .Noticed too that kids in the 60's read longer more wordy books with a couple of illustrations in the middle compared to the fodder for the kids nowadays with an attention span of a gnat. Sad.

[minxy]

Just finished "Random" by Craig Robertson. A serial killer is on the loose in Glasgow! Told from an interesting viewpoint: that of the killer himself. Good read, recommended.

I have been enjoying Glasgow based books recently, so I'll have a read at that one fiain