Had very nice lunch out with Sam and while we were wandering, managed to bungle a few op-shops. I naturally found myself some books. The Christmas Books-Volume Two by Charles Dickens (includes: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man) and a very nice new-looking copy of The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester.
As I we progress into the ever nearing holiday season I intend to get the reading count up. I am currently well engrossed in Margret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin, and I’m afraid will probably jump at anything Atwood that comes my way, it’s beautiful, beautiful stuff. Amongst the fiction, I have to spare some space for the ever backlogged Coffee House Theology and the numerous others that I must read.
For the last few years I have been tracking what I read on All Consuming. I’m not sure why I keep using it, because it is aesthetically appalling, but does seem to do the trick. Is there anything else out there – nicer but just as functional?
I’ve just started using Library Thing. As I’m new to it I’m not sure how it compares to All Consuming, but it’s really easy to use. I love it so far.
Hi! Thanks for the comment and the heads up on Library Thing. I will be checking it out. And also watching your blog 🙂
cheers,
Bec
Hey Bec,
Thanks for your comment, my blog is still in its early days, I am impressed you have been doing it for years now and are still committed!
Margaret Atwood is pretty interesting, I read one of her first books ‘The Edible Woman’, it’s kind of 70’s chick lit… but with quite funny second wave feminist ideas thrown in there. And of course there is ‘Alias Grace’ which is based on the life of this irish woman who was imprisoned I think in the 1800s for murder… I have only read a bit of it. How is the Blind Assassin going?
Hi Heather.
I finished The Blind Assassin a few days ago – it was brilliant (it should be! I won a Booker Prize).
Thanks for stopping by 🙂