Tuesday, April 26, 2011

- NO-ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.


Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Mort. This won't be a very long post, coz I haven't eaten today and my hungry stomach is beginning to make its presence known. I rather liked this book - but, to be sure and certain, Pratchett has come a long way since then as regards characters and the development of them.

Oh, and I recently listened to P. G. Wodehouse's book The Luck of the Bodkins on CD - does that count as having read a book? Probably. And yes, I do reccomend it. And no, I haven't got anything to say about it right now.

"You like it?" he said to Mort, in pretty much the same tone of voice people used when they said to St George, "You killed a what?"

Monday, April 18, 2011

Old men, intellectual ladies, and a dearth of reading material...


Haven't been reading much new stuff lately - mostly been dabbling and dipping into old favourites. Read Pere Goriot for uni - won't talk about it here because I know I'll be writing reams about it elsewhere ere long; lazily dipping into George Eliot's Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, which began most entertainingly but lost me a little when she started to talk about the salons of the influential French les précieuses and their literary movement: basically a bunch of pretty women who held parties for clever men and made them write fairy tales and love poems and stuff. Sounds like it must have been fun at the time - but deadly dull to read about.
Need some books to read! I'd really like to get my hands on Leave it to Psmith and Summer Lightning - I read the first Blandings novel ages ago and loved it. Why is Wodehouse not sold with all the other comfort foods? I could really go for some chocolate and chuckles.