Reading Hatters The Princess Diaries Take Two - Meg Cabot The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett (Superior to Robert Rankin in every way - even though someone who titles a book with a Captain Beefheart pun can't be all bad) The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (big serious read) 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem - Ruth Padel (Excellent!) Voodoo Shop - Ruth Padel (She's a talented poet too)
Just finished Eats Shoots and Leaves - a wonderful book about punctuation. It's been at the top of the UK lists for ages. Worth getting hold of if you're English speaking non-UK. Michael's right - The Curious Incident of the Dog... is a very good book. It has been top of the best-sellers in the UK for ages as well. It's marketed as both a children's book and a grown-ups' book. I don't know if it's available outside of the UK yet. If not - be the first in your town to read it. XXX Roger Visit The Poetry Zone http://www.poetryzone.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael leigh Sent: 18 July 2004 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Reading Batters --The Sprouts of Wrath! Thats what my mother-in-law cooks for xmas dinner- boils them for about an hour! Michael - Alan Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Brentford Triangle > Robert Rankin > > before that - > > The Antipope > Robert Rankin > > next (probably) > > East of Ealing, then The Sprouts of Wrath > > all by Robert Rankin... > > although I could go for Sprout Mask Replica.... > > (I've read them all 3 times anyway) > > Oh and I'm also reading the Children of the Tower > (julia dobson), To the > Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) and Damn You England > (John Osborne) although not > terribly regularly and The Fortean Times (there > wasn't a lot to choose from > in Leeds advert - I was tempted by Golf Punk > though), Uncut Magazine and > bbc.co.uk/news, and so on.... > > alaqn > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
