Books: What have you been caught reading ?

Subject: RE: BS: What have you been caught reading ?
From: mousethief
Date: 28 Feb 01 - 01:14 PM

Currently reading "Why Sex is Fun" by Jared Diamond -- an evolutionary explanation of why humans are so different from all the other mammals in the sex department.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: What have you been caught reading ?
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 03:27 AM

IT'S WORLD BOOK DAY - GET CAUGHT READING MUDCATTERS !!!

Subject: RE: BS: What have you been caught reading ?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 03:43 AM

Well, today's the day! I just finished Stephen Leather's "The birthday girl" last night about 11.30. Before that, Terry Pratchett's "The fifth elephant" (out of sequence; I've read the lot now). Today I'm back to Alexander Fullerton, "Love for an enemy". Things are a bit slack at present: I'm down to just one book now; at peak times I can be on three or four at a time. My wife says it's bad for my health if I read while she's talking to me.

Ever been in that awful situation where you've read everything in the house, and the library isn't open for hours, ans the papers are late? You start reading everything with words on: the back of the cornflakes packet, the label on the sauce bottle ("Cette sauce de haute qualité set une mélange des fruits et épices orinetaux. Elle est déliciuese avec ..." -- learned by rote from the fiftes onward!). Some days I've een been forced to talk to people!

If only I could read music as well as I read words ...

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: What have you been caught reading ?
From: LR Mole
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 09:42 AM

A clear vision: lots of us scattered around a large room, big table, wrought-iron railing around the second story shelving, reading, picking, tootling, squeezing, singing.Catting and chatting. Can't see out the windows but it's day and the sea's out there somewhere.Here/there, in/out, travelling/resting--the differences are so arbitrary, and mean so little... --- Mole,in a sentimental mood

Subject: RE: BS: What have you been caught reading ?
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 09:53 AM

I though that Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men was one of the best books I've ever read. I really want to read it again cuz I love it so much.

Subject: RE: BS: What have you been caught reading ?
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson at work
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 10:33 AM

Current nonfiction reading: the Bill Monroe biography "Can't you hear me calling". Wow, what a man!
Current fiction: re-reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Mirror Dance; recommended to EVERYBODY.
Reading and music have been the major part of my non-work life all these years; I know characters such as Miles Vorkosigan, Maureen Johnson Smith, Horatio Hornblower better than I know most of my friends. . . don't know if this is bad or good, but it's true.

Subject: RE: BS: What have you been caught reading ?
From: bluebird
Date: 01 Mar 01 - 09:47 PM

Try "Stones from the river" by Ursula Hegi.