What Perkinhob is reading.

Currently reading Company for Henry by P.G. Wodehouse. I'm sure there's an amusing twist coming. Also reading Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. Never read this author before and I'm not far enough into it to know if I'll like it. I work at a library and I thought I'd read it first before it gets thrown away.

Last month...... Or was it the month before? I read looking for Looking for Unicorns by Doris Brett. Can't recommend it highly enough. Plus some other books. I can't remember them right now so they can't have made much of an impression.

Welcome!

Thanks drneutron. Ok so here's what I've recently read:

Finn family Moomintroll
I just love the books about the Moomins by Tove Jansson. I really wish I had found them as a child. They are just as magical as Enid Blyton, but more surreal and without that jarringly old fashioned dialogue.

Death in the clouds
I'm feeling like a clever trousers for figuring out the murderer. I usually don't so I generally feel like a dolt when reading Agatha Christie

Deahouse Gates, which I mentioned I was reading in post 1 can be officially scrubbed off the record. I read the first chapter and then got rid of it. I think I like the idea of epic fantasy novels more than I like the actual novels.

I've loved the too-few Moomintroll books that I've read and wish I could find more round these parts. I, too, wish that I'd had them when I was a kid!

Thanks scaifea. There's really nothing else like them. There are also quite a few Tove Jansson adult fiction novels. I haven't read any yet but I hope there's the same magic in them.

My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell
Full of far too eccentric characters and glowing descriptions of nature. Really good armchair travel.

The hat on the letter O by Nicholas Hasluck
Short story collections are annoying (unless written by Angela Carter). I liked a lot of the stories in this book but was disappointed that they had to finish so soon.

Mike and Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
I can't believe I just enjoyed a book which had cricket as a main part of the plot. Just goes to show what a great writer Wodehouse is.

Also just finished How to be a woman by Caitlan Moran. It's the book every woman should read, says so on the cover. It is very good. Moran is great at articulating things that, for most people, stay lurking at the back of the mind.

Dead man's folly by Agatha Christie. It's been exactly what I expect in an Agatha Christe novel. Interesting characters. A plot that gets you involved. Fun looking for clues and red herrings. I'm becoming inordinately fond of Agatha.

Very happy to say that my pile of library books is down to 14 now. You see I work at a library, one that doesn't have a loan limit on books and also has long loan periods. Oh the temptation. At one point between myself, my partner and my son I had about 200 items on loan. The only problem is that a few of the books I have left are not easy reads. Oh well, wish me luck. Here is the list.

The ascent of science by Brian L Silver
Discovering enzymes by David Dressler
The hidden connections by Fritjof Capra
Adam Spencer's book of Numbers by Adam Spencer
The double helix by James D. Watson
The 100 best volunteer vacations to enrich your life by Pam Grout
The fearful void by Geoffrey Moorehouse
Samurai William by Giles Milton
The dead moon by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Ottomans by Andrew Wheatcroft
An afternoon of time by D. E. Charlwood
Never the bride by Paul Magrs
Being there by Jerzy Kosinski
The sixth day and other tales by Primo Levi

So I just need to all these books, then the pile of books I own that I haven't read yet and then I will allow myself to start re reading my favourites.

I've been looking at other threads and seeing all the great photos. So now I want to share too. This is a picture of Marlow. It was taken at around the time my son was born so I wonder if he was trying to be extra cute for the attention.

Aw, those crossed paws are adorable!

Hi ursula. Yes I love the way Marlow looks so uncomfortable but at the same time so nonchalant.

There were a few extra library books that I hadn't noticed. Plus I couldn't resist getting a couple more by P.G. Wodehouse

Memory by Margaret Mahy
The dead man's brother by Roger Zelanzy
Heron and Quin by John Saul (no touchstone)
Joy in the morning by P.G. Wodehouse
A pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse

Now here is part of the long list of books that I own that have been sitting on my shelf since the beginning of time:

Destination unknown by Agatha Christie
The mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Beasts in my Belfry by Gerald Durrell
Birds, beasts and relatives by Gerald Durrell
The young Hornblower by C. S. Forrester
Border crossing by Pat Barker
The woman's room by Marlyn French
A room with view by E. M. Forster
Crusade by David Weber
The shining city by Kate Forsyth
Elidor by Alan Garner
The vanishing American by Zane Grey
We of the Never Never by Aeneas Gunn
In chancery by John Glasworthy
The glass key by Dashiell Hammett
The Iliad Homer
The court of the air by Stephen Hunt
The stonor eagles by William Horwood
Island by Aldus Huxley
Three men on the bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
Captains corageous by Rudyard Kipling
Fata Morgana by William Kotzwinkle
The garden party by Katherine Mansfield

At the moment I'm trying to balance reading with another more current obsession. Watching Dr Who from the very first episodes to the current series. I'm up to the Tom Baker episodes at the moment. Fantastic.

But I really did enjoy the earlier episodes. Especially the bad special effects. They were hilarious.