Books

I used to read alot years ago but not so much recently. I like Susan Howatch's work and for a great ripping yarn I recommend Cashelmara, Penmarric, The Rich Are Different, Sins Of The Fathers, to name but a few. Bill Bryson's The History Of Almost Everything is entertaining and informative. He also wrote Notes From A Small Island about his adventures when he first arrived in England from America as a young twenty something.....it's absolutely hilarious. I tried REALLY hard to read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time but gave up after the the first chapter and sent it back to the bookclub!    Clarissa Dickson Wright's autobiography Spilling The Beans is another good read and tells of how she turned her life around from being a out and out alcoholic to ending up as one of the two Fat Ladies and stardom. She relates it with wit and not an ounce of self-pity.

Karen,  i have also read a couple of Bill Bryson's books....hilarious for sure!

my sister got me hooked on some books by Debbie Maccomber. 

I have 2 websites for reading on line as well, just do not have them to hand at the moment.  classicbookshelf i think is one of them. 

I have shelves and shelves of books that I've purchased over the years, with the intention of reading them, but all I ever do is dust them.  I, like Sue H. read the Bible every day, in companion with 3 excellent daily devotionals.  I'm reading a very depressing non-fiction book called, "Bad Money," about what's going in in the US economy right now; the author is Kevin Phillips and the last non-fiction was a delightful novel, called "Ireland," by Frank Delaney.  What I really would like to get into is all the stuff they make you read in school - the Dickens stuff, mostly.

2 books that several friends have recommended are by Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.  Has anyone read either one of them?

He sounds very Smart, Auntie Miya. 

I just thought of another book that I simply MUST get.  And I think we have some new people in the forum who might also be interested.  It's called #all the places in England I havent been to# by Denzil Tregallion.  Andy's probably about the only one in here who wouldn't need that book, with all the places he drives to and all.