What books are you reading at the moment?

[sheffy]

have just purchased Tolleys Health and Safety at Work 2009 for £ 91.00 should keep me going for a while 3000

some people just like reading fun books, don't they!

I have read a few of Patrick O'Brian's books and enjoyed them but not my favourite.

I read and enjoyed "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" a while back and it was fantastic and weird. Has anyone else read it?

[Dumb Waiter]

Ben Elton - Blind Faith.

Enjoyed Stark and Gridlock but haven't read any since, picked this one up in a second hand shop for a pound.

40 odd pages in and thoroughly enjoying it

[Sarah H]

I picked up a second hand last week from BBC s called 'My Dad Had One Of These'. It is very interesting and covers all sorts of cars form the 60s to the 80s. It was surprising to see all the cars I have forgotten were around a few years ago, especially the ones I have driven or owned.

Now I am showing my age.

[SalinaA]

Hehe thats funny! Im terrible - I havent read a good for a while but definately need to find the time to get started again soon!

[sheffy]

Someone gave my husband 10 first edition volumes of Churchill's "The second world war" so I am reading that. Well written but rather long! I have nearly finished volume one. it is interesting but will take a break and read something else before i start on volume 2!

[Malcb17]

Sounds good but difficult to get your head round, Reading about databases at the moment,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[sheffy]

Reading about data bases? Wow! and you think my s are difficult!
I have just finished Volume 1 of Churchilss@s 2 nd World War. I will take a break and read a John Grisham before I start volume 2. It is really interesting and gives me new insight into the events, difficulties and what the situation was like at the time during WW2.

[Mac]

Reading about data bases? Wow! and you think my s are difficult!
I have just finished Volume 1 of Churchilss@s 2 nd World War. I will take a break and read a John Grisham before I start volume 2. It is really interesting and gives me new insight into the events, difficulties and what the situation was like at the time during WW2.

They are a hard read Sheffy but very interesting, we have the full set handed down from my grandfather who was in the AFS during the blitz, must get round to digesting them properly.

[Boggy]

I have just finished Volume 1 of Churchilss@s 2 nd World War. I will take a break and read a John Grisham before I start volume 2. It is really interesting and gives me new insight into the events, difficulties and what the situation was like at the time during WW2.

Anything that doesn't grip me in 20 pages goes back on the shelf. I tried reading War and Peace when I was at school and managed no more than 50 pages. Cookbooks, car manuals and the Yellow Pages are about all I can manage to get into these days.

[sheffy]

Oh! Boggy, you don't know what you are missing!
The most interesting thing that has come over to me during the course of reading Volume 1 of WW2 "The Gathering Storm" is that the whole thing could have been stopped right at the onset with very little or no loss of life. and over and over again it was all so preventable. We missed so many opportunities early on. Terrible when you think of the onslaught which ensued as a result.

[Malcb17]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre, plus half a dozen more in the same when I have finished that one.

[sheffy]

Now half way through Volume 3 The Second World War - still on the events of 1941. Still fascinated.

[Malcb17]

Sheffy,

you are the only woman I know that would enjoy a like that and be totally captivated ...brilliant, you realise you will be the expert and we will all come to you for advice and answers as to how we resolve Iraq and Afghanistan.

[bazza]

"When you are engulfed in flames" by David Sedaris, I picked it up on holiday after buying a duff that was incredibly boring and I am hooked. Someone actually came up to me while I was reading it enthusing about other titles by Sedaris.

[sheffy]

you are the only woman I know that would enjoy a like that and be totally captivated ...

I know I am a bit odd. However, it is so very interesting. Germany has just attacked Russia. It is all rivetting stuff. I think possibly because you get to read all the correspondance that was going on at the time e.g between Churchill and Roosweldt, Hitler and Mussolini, Churchill and Stalin etc. and realise how very complex everything was and one incident impinged on another.

Bazza what is your Sedaris about?