100 books

I had to read this for a review for Youthwork Magazine. And lets face it I was always unlikely to read it aside from that. Its pap.. simplistic marketing bilge for the rich and brand conscious. There we go.. teh bit I can't say in Youthwork!

I've been plodding away at this on and off for over a year and have finally gotten through it! Truss is obsessive about punctuation- and the resultant read is actually not bad. She wends her way thourgh the major marks, finding their role and place with a whole bucnh of research that is worthy in and of itself. It does make you feel woefully inadequate as a grammarian though. I may never write again!

So I hadn't quite clocked that this was thriller about Dracula- but for an essentially not very "me" book, it did rather well. In common with lots of new reads, its written from three or four points fo view using letters as a key genre of communication. I liked it.. not least for its slightly slow feel.. Its really detailed and frankly will interest very few non historical bods but I liked it!

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..