Reading

Another exciting event in the world of Books What I've Read! I know it's difficult, but you must try and remain calm. It's just not polite to freak out and issue forth spontaneous outbursts of pure excitement.

Especially when only wearing pants. (No more details available on request, you don't want to know.)

This week sees the dispatching of

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Seeing as in a few years global warming will have turned the UK into to tropical paradise, I thought I'd post this for posterity and to remind me how things were in the good old days when winter was cold.

As I left the house the other morning to begin my epic battle against both the public and their transport, I noticed that the car was a bit chilly.

Brrr.

So, there you go; proof that it was cold once, all the eco-mentalists were right, and that I have to leave too damn early to go to work.

And, I've finished another book. T'was ok, but a little hard to follow in places due to a combination of similar sounding Norwegian names, some slight schizophrenia and jumping between 1944 and 2000.

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It must be a few days since my last blog entry as I've finished another couple of books:

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I must confess that this is my first Frederick Forsyth novel, and it comes courtesy of a random Tesco purchase by my good lady wife. To be honest it was a little hard going in places, reading like a university assignment where the author had to prove just how much he knew about a particular part of the world, religion or process. I know Tom Clancy does the same thing when it comes to weaponry but that's more interesting (to me at least) than the inner workings of Afghanistan's religious sects.

That's not to say it's a bad book, just a little deeper than my admittedly shallow tastes and being the sensitive chap that I am, I was left a little depressed by the end.

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Harvest is the first of Tess Gerritsen's novels. She's a doctor turned author, in a similar vein to Kathy Reichs, although this novel seems a little heavy on the medical jargon. It works well enough on TV shows like ER but it makes for slightly heavy going when reading.

Having said that, it was a good story with enough pace to drag you happily along till the end and I shall no doubt be working my way through her numerous follow up novels in due course.