Finished The Good Husband of Zebra Drive very quickly, they are thin books. Now starting Cold Fire - Dean Koontz
At the moment I am going through some of the Tom Sharpe books again. I’ve re-read Blot on the Landscape and now I am on The Throwback. I don’t know how he thinks these plots up and I lay in bed reading and laughing.
I will look for Tom Sharpe as I do like a good laugh and I can never think of a funny clever author.
Read Steven Fry’s Diary of Mrs Fry and was very disappointed tell the truth it was rubbish.
Almost finished reading “Meet Me Under The Ombu Tree” by Santa Montefiore. Nearly gave up on it, but glad I perservered as it is enjoyable. A story about forbidden love and gives a good description of life in Argentina. 
Some of Tom Sharpe’s stuff can be a bit rude, Cookiecate, but I think he is very funny if you like a bit of anarchic comedy.
Just finished reading, The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War by Midge Gillies.
A lengthy tome by any standards but at last a truly accurate book on historical events that have been the subject of comics, books, films and TV. Most of the time these have all been glamourised so much that the actual facts vanished.
The meticulous research Ms Gillies has obviously undertaken stands her in good stead and I would guess she drew great inspiration from her father who was a POW.
I found the accounts relating to the Far East POW’s particularly moving and also the stories of many people who later made their way in the world of entertainment like Clive Dunn and Denholm Elliott were fascinating, truly resourceful and remarkable people but John Wayne, they were not.
Ann Archy is my middle name and I do love a bit of rude now and again.
Just started reading ‘Perfect People’ by Peter James - good so far.
Just started Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly seems like a good read.
Have put in a requst at the library for a Tom Sharpe book.
I am an avid reader but I can’t bear parting with books, I think I have more than a library ! I’ve just finished reading The Flying Carpet to Baghdad by Hala Jaber, excellent book but quite heart rending. Love all books by Christian Jacq, Clive Custler, Colin Deaver, basically I’ll read anything. Only gave up on one, The Long Walk to Freedom…Nelson Mandella biography, it was the most boring book I have ever come across.
I am in the second book in a series by Richard Bard entitled “Brainrush II, The Enemy of My Enemy”. It’s a science fiction novel about a man who had his brain’s abilities greatly enhanced by an MRI accident.
I never give up on a book if I can help it either and the ones I have given up on are biographies. Sometimes the talented person you see now has had a very boring life, when I read about Dawn French I thought my goodness my life is far more interesting a bit sad in places but interesting:shock:
I hope you like it CC - they ae a bit OTT and also a bit dated now. He got deported from South Africa and I wondered if it was after he wrote Riotous Assembly. (He would have deserved deportation for that one 
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At the moment I’m reading a Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent.
I’m sure I will.
I was given ‘How To Shit in the Woods’ by Kathleen Meyer as one of my xmas presents. An instruction manual - so I was told 
There has got to be humour in this book.
I just had to google this
It has some good reviews on Amazon and, as you say, there must be humour in there 
Let us know what you think of it.
This book looks like a must have if you are an adventurer into the woods but it also looks as if it might be quite funny.
I am just getting back into the ‘hobby’ of reading. I have let myself be ‘too busy’ for too long now and in December while wondering about a library for another reason other than looking for a good book, I picked up a (don’t hold this against me) and romance Chirstmas story (think Harlequin type here) with a pretty picture of country, trees, snow and of course handsome cowboy on the cover (lol). But, I was hooked quickly on the warm story (of course girl meets guy and end up together in the end) and have been heading back to the library for the soul purpose to find ‘another’ book. Ladies (and gents) is there any writers you suggest that have a bit more ‘substance’ to their writing than just ‘romance’? I would love a trilogy that spand a few books so that you really get into the characters.
A brilliant trilogy starts with - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
…the second is The Girl who played with Fire
…the third is The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
I’ve seen these and thought about it, so I will!
I think I recently saw an interview with the author’s (he’s now passed right?) significate other (they never married, but they were together for years), she has written a book about him and how his family has behaved (not very nice) since his passing. Or am I confused with someone else?