What are you reading?

[Holly]

I bet it will be really absorbing Smokie - I read a book by Richard Feynman and I was captivated. It's total magic that quantum stuff...

Maybe your daughter sees your inner genius my friend 

[smokie]

I bet it will be really absorbing Smokie - I read a book by Richard Feynman and I was captivated. It's total magic that quantum stuff...

But, do I need to know all that stuff ?
Isn't it a bit like a digital watch, I don't need to know how it works, just that it does and tells me the time.
So up to now, I've just let those electrons and atoms and stuff get on with it, they seem to manage pretty well without my help and if time and space warp a bit sometimes...................so what?

 

Maybe your daughter sees your inner genius my friend 

I suspect that maybe my daughter sees something hugely different to an inner genius.

[Flash]

Wow, just spotted this thread, nice one.

Finished the secong Stig Larsson book whilst away, not as good as the first, but an OK holiday read.  Lynn is just finishing the third and tells me not to even bother starting it, as did a bloke on the beach who was also just finishing the third of three.

Life of Pi, I thought was excellent, although I understand why people hated it, I loved it.

One of the most beautiful books I've read in recent years is 'The Shadow of the Wind' just a beautiful, beautiful book. 

I read birdsong (belatedly) about two years ago, it was so brilliant I didn't read another book for a nearly year, there didn't seem any point - what could follow that!!

Probably favourite all time book is To Kill a Mocking Bird (or King Lear which I've read about five times and I never read any book twice)

[Holly]

Smokie - it's about the man's life isn't it? And he's involved in extraordinariness. Go on - you'll love it 

Flash - Birdsong! Totally agree with you. To say it blew me away would be insufficient. I remember walking around seeing old people in a completely new light. My sense of time and place; of the sacrifices made; a newly grown appreciation for courage and stoicism; sorrow for the terrible foolishness and waste; my... gratitude... the aftermath of that book filled my thoughts for a very long time and sharply focused my life-vision. And it's a scorching love story too! There was a recent theatre production (don't know if it's still running) - favourable reviews but I would be terrified of seeing it, in case it didn't live up to my very profound experience of the book.

Sorry to gush folks - but there it is. If you haven't yet read Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks I urge you to. 

[Holly]

Oh yes - and Lear/Mocking Bird? Class stuff Flash Lear I haven't read since school - you have inspired me to have another looky. Mocking Bird seems to top most all-time favourite lists (along with Catcher in the Rye but I just thought he was a self-indulgent wimp - I do get that's the point but ... oh maybe it's a guy thing). Don't know Shadow of the Wind - more please?

[Josie]

I love Birdsong!  To Kill a Mockingbird was a set book at O level I think.  On holiday I was reading the latest Jilly Cooper much to Elle's disgust.  Left it in the flat only about a third finished.  A few good bits and some nice characters but there was a court scene that was complete nonsense to anyone in the know.  I should have realised it was going to be a disappointment after a reading an interview with her recently when she said now she's older she doesn't bother much with sex scenes.

[smokie]

Smokie - it's about the man's life isn't it? And he's involved in extraordinariness. Go on - you'll love it 

Hi Holly, I may have misled you by mistake.
I have read the first few chapters and haven't once fallen asleep whilst reading it but, up to now, it's only reached fairly early in his life so we're not up to the "meaty bits" yet.

[Holly]

Haven't sussed out how to quote parts of yet...

Josie! Welcome back  LOL re Jilly Cooper sex scenes  Anyway, trashy is allowed on holiday innit!

Smokie - I suspect you do actually have an inner genius - so there 

[Josie]

Gaia just quote the whole message and edit within it.

[Holly]

On holiday I was reading the latest Jilly Cooper much to Elle's disgust.  I should have realised it was going to be a disappointment after a reading an interview with her recently when she said now she's older she doesn't bother much with sex scenes.

Voila! Thanks Josie 

[smokie]

I've just looked up the title of another book I received from my daughter, but not read yet, it's
"Why does e=mc2 by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.

I think she's taking the phys.

[Holly]

Ha-ha!  Mind you, that Brian Cox is d'reamy...

[Celtygirl]

'Wolf Hall' is really something else and absolutely deserved the Booker in my opinion. If you haven't already done 'Wolf Hall' Celty I reckon you'd enjoy that too 

I'll look it up - sounds right up my street No holidays till Easter now, so back to chic lit till then as too many distractions and then some proper reading again: Josie -  Jilly Cooper - still enjoyed her last one - a good old romp, sex scenes are part of the silliness, so just go with the flow and enjoy the inevitable plot - read one, you've read them all, but something of a comfort blanket about them

[Silly Gilly]

is he the professor with the dark hair 

[Silly Gilly]

Ha-ha!  Mind you, that Brian Cox is d'reamy...

it is it is, Ive just noticed the d-reamy bit lol