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World Book Day Meme
Mar. 5th, 2011 11:41 pmBooks I am currently reading:
Just finished rereading The Pursuit of Love/Love in a Cold Climate/The Blessing - Nancy Mitford
Just started the second Merchant Princes book by Charles Stross - not really grabbing me, so far but it was there in the library.
Still reading Gibbon volume 3
Book I am currently writing:
Nothing, although I feel a huge Solvency II catastrophe analysis document may lurk in my future.
Books I love most:
Very favourite book of all is The Left Hand of Darkness, which I haven't reread in years, posibly decades, because I can recite it. But I've just read Ballet Shoes to Small, and that is well up there on the list.
The last book I received as a gift:
You know that's weird, I don't think I recieved any books for Christmas, or any physical books for my birthday. Probably a hardbacked Pratchett one Christmas or Russell T Davies' The Writer's Tale a couple of years ago. But I have just bought a load of books with an Amazon gift voucher (see below).
The last book I gave as a gift:
Christmas presents, so Brian Cox's Big Book of the Solar System for Tiny, Clive James' Unreliable Memoirs for my mother, and a coffee table book of pictures of Britain from the air for my grandmother. The Solar System was picked up on a whim from Sainsburys, and hasn't been a big success yet but the landscape pictures apparently went down a storm with Gran and are now being enjoyed by the rest of her nursing home (as per my intention). And an origami book from Muji for Him if that counts.
The nearest book on my desk:
Aforementioned Merchant Princes book and a Doctor Who Decide Your Destiny book which Small borrowed from the library - it's sitting next to the computer because it has interactive CGI online stuff that goes with it.
Last book I bought for myself:
Amazon binge with birthday vouchers:-
Twilight Robbery: Frances Hardinge
The Unsilent Library: most of my f-list
Declare: Tim Powers (per recommendation from Clarke award, and because I've just read Atrocity Archives), bit of a gamble though, because I stopped being able to get on with Powers about 15 years ago.
Blackout: Connie Willis (No, I don't care what anyone says, I love Connie Willis's time travel books and I'm not ashamed to admit it).
None of the above have actually arrived though, so the last purchased books to come through my door were Anathem and A Most Wanted Man (both from Help The Aged) and The Painted Garden (Noel Streatfeild) second hand from the internet.
And I have a question for you all. I can't find a good looking iPhone app for keeping track of what I've read, so old skool web it shall be. Is Library Thing, which apparently costs money, any better than Good Reads, which is apparently free?
Just finished rereading The Pursuit of Love/Love in a Cold Climate/The Blessing - Nancy Mitford
Just started the second Merchant Princes book by Charles Stross - not really grabbing me, so far but it was there in the library.
Still reading Gibbon volume 3
Book I am currently writing:
Nothing, although I feel a huge Solvency II catastrophe analysis document may lurk in my future.
Books I love most:
Very favourite book of all is The Left Hand of Darkness, which I haven't reread in years, posibly decades, because I can recite it. But I've just read Ballet Shoes to Small, and that is well up there on the list.
The last book I received as a gift:
You know that's weird, I don't think I recieved any books for Christmas, or any physical books for my birthday. Probably a hardbacked Pratchett one Christmas or Russell T Davies' The Writer's Tale a couple of years ago. But I have just bought a load of books with an Amazon gift voucher (see below).
The last book I gave as a gift:
Christmas presents, so Brian Cox's Big Book of the Solar System for Tiny, Clive James' Unreliable Memoirs for my mother, and a coffee table book of pictures of Britain from the air for my grandmother. The Solar System was picked up on a whim from Sainsburys, and hasn't been a big success yet but the landscape pictures apparently went down a storm with Gran and are now being enjoyed by the rest of her nursing home (as per my intention). And an origami book from Muji for Him if that counts.
The nearest book on my desk:
Aforementioned Merchant Princes book and a Doctor Who Decide Your Destiny book which Small borrowed from the library - it's sitting next to the computer because it has interactive CGI online stuff that goes with it.
Last book I bought for myself:
Amazon binge with birthday vouchers:-
Twilight Robbery: Frances Hardinge
The Unsilent Library: most of my f-list
Declare: Tim Powers (per recommendation from Clarke award, and because I've just read Atrocity Archives), bit of a gamble though, because I stopped being able to get on with Powers about 15 years ago.
Blackout: Connie Willis (No, I don't care what anyone says, I love Connie Willis's time travel books and I'm not ashamed to admit it).
None of the above have actually arrived though, so the last purchased books to come through my door were Anathem and A Most Wanted Man (both from Help The Aged) and The Painted Garden (Noel Streatfeild) second hand from the internet.
And I have a question for you all. I can't find a good looking iPhone app for keeping track of what I've read, so old skool web it shall be. Is Library Thing, which apparently costs money, any better than Good Reads, which is apparently free?