100 books

This film has been a bit of a seminal one for a lot of people in the UK. This is actually an abridgement of the original book by a guy teh name of Morgenstern.. and is funny (Goldman does this little interruptions all over which are very amusing).. Well worth a read even if you haven't seen teh film.

This is one mammoth book. Genuinely, it 800 pages and on each one is some little gem of knowledge about London. Its taken me about four months to wade through it, but I;m glad I did. Ackroyd's great- because he is a classy historian who doesn't discount teh spiritual element of any city. Whilst he doesn't mention the history of the church (this is a truly social history in that sense) he does talk about the strongholds and foregeign gods of the City. Anyone who would seek to make a difference in London would be well advised to read this- its salutory warnings of the resilience of the City are spot on. I like it!

Another DDo read this one but its very good on helping me to work out where I stand on baptism. I'm becoming less baptist by the second pretty much! Michael Green writes really simply which made this a quick one or so in teh UL in cambridge.. Where I also looked at other books, just not deeply enough to call it reading!!!

My first dive into her writing.. and.. well .. its OK.. she does this thing where she writes from lots of different people's points of view and stuff. It means you have to follow a little more closely than you would like. But hey ho! Good story though..

Its trendy at the moment to write books which portray the church (whether the church RC for Dan Brown, or the church Mid West for Sam Bourne) as an evil power broking insttitution prepared to kill to get its own way! It is also trendy to write about it very badly! And so why oh why did I manage to eat through this book in a day! Well its just about compelling enough to get you there.. And if you go fast enough you don't find yourself choking over the appallingly cheesy naff writing. Of which there was plenty! Its a good tube read (as is Brown).. and if you, like me, ever fancy having a go at writing a novel, its encouraging to know that you don't have to get far beyond GCSE English to get published.. though if you have to slag off the church to do it maybe I'm not so keen!

I sneakily read this in Starbucks in Borders the other day! Its the book of the film that has just come out and was another foray into the world on kids literature. It turns out that its a good foray. I really enjoyed it- fast paced, good characters (good enough for film, not for study in school I think). I would certainly pick up another Horowitz!

Nouwen is one of my favourite authors: I just totally love his stuff. So when Christine John popped this little number into my hand at New WIne, I lapped it up! Its a little book based on some talks he gave about leadership.. but talks that he had taken one of the L'arche community members to.. in true Nouwen style he looks at leadership in a new way! It will take you about two hours to read, and a lifetime to digest!