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What's Everyone Reading in the New Year?

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expatinscotland · 02/01/2006 16:44

I've started w/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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tangarine · 02/01/2006 17:41

I'm alternating between "Small Island" and Boris Johnson's "Lend Me Your Ears". Just re-read "How to be Good" before giving it away. I enjoyed it more second time round.

HappyNewFrannyandZooey · 02/01/2006 17:39

I'm reading:

Clay by David Almond (love his books)

plus dipping into:

American Exorcism
The Selected Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay
and
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? (Christmas present) which is surprisingly spot on and snortingly funny

WideWebWitch · 02/01/2006 17:19

I'm reading Disney War by James Stewart and when I've finished that I'm going to read maybe the Time Traveller's wife (is it good Cam?) or Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination, which I probably won't finish as I expect it's crap and/or Fat Land, about why Americans are the fattest nation in the world. That combined with You Are What You Eat, will, I hope, inspire me to keep up with my diet. I fancy not on the label and the one about supermarket power too, I might buy them next year. I've got the bad mother's handbook which I keep starting but I don't think I'm going to finish it.

pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 02/01/2006 17:16

We are lucky that we can buy bio-dynamic meat from a local farm, I plan to buy there even more and if possible JUST there. It's more expensive but we'll just eat a bit less and more vegetables, rice, potatoes...
We have a very good organic vegetable shop near us - FAR cheaper than sainsbury's.
We make our own bread (1x week) but I was saying to DH that we are lazy about it and if we bought a machine we would make our own more often... maybe only make our own.... but need to find a good machine that allows for fresh yeast and all sorts of grains... will start a thread on this !

Pruni · 02/01/2006 17:13

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pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 02/01/2006 17:11

Tell me more..... I certainly plan to buy far less from Sainsbury's !!!!

Pruni · 02/01/2006 17:10

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snafu · 02/01/2006 17:09

Oooh, the Francis Wheen is excellent, Pruni. Get stuck in! De Botton isn't bad either.

As for me - The Politics of Birth by Sheila Kitzinger

harpsichordcarrier · 02/01/2006 17:08

know what books I got for Christmas?
[grumble grumble]
a Lynda La Plante and a homeopathy handbook
wtf??
I swear these people have never met me
[gross ingratitude emoticon]
anyone rad the Mao book by Jung Chang - quite fancy that

pupucelovesruDOuLaph · 02/01/2006 17:07

Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence.... well it is definitely making me rethink my way of byuing food!!!!

Pruni · 02/01/2006 17:05

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harpsichordcarrier · 02/01/2006 17:02

Pruni
can I also say that having books on your bedside table is not the same as actually reading them apparently...
I though maybe some Dickens because I loved Bleak House and have read shamefuly little Dickens
David Copperfield maybe?

Cam · 02/01/2006 17:00

I'm halfway through The Time Traveller's Wife which dh bought me

roisin · 02/01/2006 16:58

I normally start the New Year reading my Christmas presents, and then move onto dh's ... but this year I got no books for Christmas ... none at all! I am really shocked. Dh only got two, and they don't interest me.

Turquoise · 02/01/2006 16:56

Harlen Coben - THe Innocent. Not only unputdownably gripping, but it's also set in the exact part of NJ I used to live in so i'm having a little pang of nostalgia.
Then it's back to counselling textbooks.

sallystrawberry · 02/01/2006 16:51

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Pruni · 02/01/2006 16:50

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spursmum · 02/01/2006 16:45

My best friend got me the 50th anniversary edition of Lord of the Rings so I am working through that after I'm done with the Hobbit.

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