What are you reading?

Yes , I do. The library allows me 12 books a week and usually 7-8 are fiction to be enjoyed and forgotten. Then there are often a couple of nonfiction harder ones, and a gardening book or 2.
I only buy books now if I can't bear to part with a library copy, and very seldom fiction, my house is full already!

 

I am reading " the forest of souls" by rachael pollack..its hard going i read some and fall asleep..and i am also trying to read "the signature of all things" by jacob boehme...that is even worse as its written in old english..

 

In your garden with Percy Thrower 1959
50p in local book shop

 

"Greening the Built Environment", & "Sissinghurst: the Making of a Garden" - this last one was from a charity shop! Gawd bless 'em, you can't beat cheap books!(+ am trying to get through "Villette" again - not as page turning as the other Brontes! - doing the same as you Wildflower - at least it gets me to sleep!)

 

"The Binding Chair" by Kathryn Harrison which is a family saga starting off in China. It's okay and readable, bought it from my local hospice shop for �£1.25 and will take it back when finished.

Really liked "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden and "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton mistry.

A Fine Balance probably being the best book I have read.

 

Just finished 'What Good are Bugs?' by Gilbert Wildbauer. Excellent book although it's American. Easy to read and full of fascinating facts. I borrowed it from the library after having an argument about whether wasps were any use. Might just have to buy this!
All creepy crawly haters should read it!

 

Just finished 'Caracature' by daniel clowes. I love graphic novels because being dislexic (adavance apologies for my rubbish spelling) I prefer looking at pictures! It was good but more of a boys book I think, all the characters are lonely slightly odd guys, and the girls are portrayed from a (deliberately) simplistic male perspective. Obviously they're character studies not stories with a plot but I find it frustrating how as soon as it looks like something interesting happens it's "THE END". I still enjoyed it though and look forward to 'Ice Haven'

 

I am lucky to be close to the RHS Harlow Carr library. I have just read the autobiography of Gertrude Jeykll. Interesting to know her background - but written by a non gardener with practically no refernces to gardening. Also Beth Chatto's 'Dry Garden' - excellent and practical.

Debdrobium, brain scans have shown that reading effects the parts of the brain that relax you, so very good last thing at night. The opposite and worst thing late at night in mathematics and logic. So do the bills in the morning.

 

I'd better stop doing sudoku in bed then!!

 

T'other half does it in the bathroom ... sudoku as well :D :D :D

 

was given The Vegetable & Herb Expert by Dr.D.G.Hessayon from Expert Books recently for my birthdy.cor,what a great pressy!its just one of 20 available.The Bulb Expert,The GH Expert etc...

 

I have four of them, Trees & Shrubs (which also has climbers), Houseplant, Bedding Plants and the Millenium Edition of the New Flower Expert, which is great!

 

i bought a book today from a charity shop by John Grisham called The Chamber.hes good if you enjoy a thriller.i like James Patterson`s books too.i have to get my excitment somewhere? :D .

 

I am in the middle of reading Sahib, The British Soldier in India,by Richard Holmes, great book if you are into history in India.