WEST LONDON BOOK SWAP THREAD :)

[MrsBojangles]

So that Uwilalalalala doesn't get offended by us bookworms - or would like to be bookworms if we had the time...

hi foxie,

Could i borrow Shreve's Resistance? did u get my text, mobile being strange.

mellow/pc666/mrsd - have just texted the venue to you

(sorry Mellow, forgot to respond earlier - got your text this morning )

sfx/trying2Bgood - text me on 07779-289-041 and will send the address.

Mellow -of course - its a brill book, would highly recommend it. If you like it, I've got all her others too (went through a bit of a Shreve phase during the summer)!

i am having a hard time making a list
dh wrote a programme to catalogue the books and i pronised i would do while on maternity leave, well nearly 18m after the birth...are we weird?
it can go online and be like a library and all, my lovely geeky dh

anyone read

Tibor Fisher - The thought gang (LOL)

House of Leaves is a huge insane book the guy just wrote another one which i want for christmas.

just a question do any of you manage to read Martin Amis? i always feel like i should but i can't bear him or his characters

sfx - totally agree with you. I bought London Fields and hated it. Just cannot read Amis

I have another Tibor Fisher book - something about frogs.

foxie, don't know about Stranger, can look tonight and tell you when it was published.

i've already given quite a few of my contemporary books away to friends ;-(

i'm not familiar with all the titles flying about so no idea what i'd like to read yet!

mind you, i only get to read on the train 2 days per week so.......

your online library sounds brill sfx.

Under the Frog - Tibor Fischer!

No, I can't stand Martin Amis.

dh said the only Amis he read with pleasure was the bio thing about his dad.

i keep getting books that i have no chance in hell of reading any time soon, but i always want more.

i read popular science too love Stephen Jay Gould.

oh yes and i like Richard Ford, he can make an unsympathetic character interesting
and also Paul Auster

I'm such an ingoramus... haven't even heard most of the names you're throwing about LOL

sfx/mrsd/pc - did you get the address OK?

mrsd - I haven't heard of those authors either!!

yes i did thanks foxie was just getting dd down for her nap.

i would happily run a 2nd book shop but i fear it would turn up like 'black books'in my grumpy old woman days, not the sloth and drunkenness but the despair a crap books people want to read.

second hand i meant unfortunately do not have a 1st book shop

sfx - there used to be a shop called Black Books, with books by black authors!!

how very pc was that north london?

i think last time i watched any live comedy was with that guy before he got really big, i miss Eddie Izzard being good too

yes foxie got address alright Up to my elbows in filing as boss told me to file everything on other bosses desk away. Boss no. 2 is a horder so I've got my work cut out for me. I'll never complain about being bored again!

hi foxie, yep thanks for text.

sfx, i miss eddie izzard being good too ;-(

mrsb, we're not ignorant because we haven't heard of these authors - we're waiting to be educated!

the only good thing I read by Martin Amis was a piece in the Sunday Times Mag about the World Poker Tournament. Altho he was very interesting on Radio4 the other talking about his dad.

Never tried Martin Amis though you've put me off now! I've read one of Paul Auster's books - New York Trilogy - which was ok.

Foxie - just got your text, that was fast work! And I will reserve those two for you.

Wish list - I've already mentioned Heinlen, other than that willing to try anything really. I'm not a huge fan of 'chick lit' and I recently tried a Jilly Cooper (in the spirit of openmindedness) but I had to give up when I could feel brain cells turning into mush! Sorry if there are any JC fans out there!

oh i know Mrs Coulter - Cate Blanchett

how about Flannery OConnor? any takers i do love a good southern Gothic

There's no need to apologise. I thoroughly enjoy JC books . They help me unwind after a stressful work day. Ditto chick lit.

Puds - woz that U wot texted me about 10 minutes ago??

Yes it was foxie!

To be fair, I've only tried one JC so maybe there are others which are better.

secret guilty pleasure: both the JCs of trashy beach reading fame!

I don't know what it is about JC and other books like that, I can never really get into them or give 2 hoots about the characters! The only one I enjoyed was Bridget Jones & that was after watching the film.