What Are You Reading 2

[Dotsie]

I'm reading American gods by Neil Gaiman. Excellent read!

I just bought that for my dad, so I expect he's reading it as well (any book I buy him he reads straight away, so he can tell me as quickly as possible how good it was )

 

[Catch-up]

I'm reading Whispers Under Ground.

By the way, what's a Navvie and what's a Scouser accent?

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm reading Whispers Under Ground.

By the way, what's a Navvie and what's a Scouser accent?

A navvie is the name that was originally given to the mostly Irish workers who dug the canal system in Britain. It is short for navigation. It was later used to describe the people who built the railways and roads and is sometimes used for a general labourer on a building site.

Scouser is Liverpudlian. The name comes from a type of stew called scouse. As to the accent - have you seen Thomas the Tank Engine? The two narrators have scouse accents. So does Dave Lister from Red Dwarf.

 

[Catch-up]

Thanks Tony! Most of the unfamiliar slang I can figure out by the context, but a few I need help with. I am surprised by the regular use of "governor." I didn't think that was something people currently said.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Still used a lot in the East End, cockney land innit guv.

 

[raisindot]

Among the many things I'm reading is Pete Townshend's autobiography, Who I Am. Like the man and his music, it's often brilliant, frequently head-scratching, totally self-indulgent, and perpetuates many Who-related myths that have long been discredited.

 

[Alanz]

I did get a book called "No Easy Day" about the shooting of Bin Laden which looks good when i eventually get round to reading it.

 

[Catch-up]

Just finished Whispers Under Ground and it was great! Really love these books. Hope there are more to come.

 

[Alanz]

Just started reading Long Earth on my Kindle, Did i tell you that i got a Kindle Fire HD for Christmas

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm reading The Hobbit.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

I'm in Tom Holt mode at the moment.

 

[Quatermass]

Just finished reading the last volume of Akira. Bloody dark, bloody violent, but bloody good, with a surprisingly heartwarming ending.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just about to start Angry Lead Skies the missing Garret PI by Glen Cook one I did not have but thought I did.

 

[meerkat]

Read by 1st January:
A blink of the screen (excellent)
Compleat Mapp of Ankh Morpork, (i love the adverts)
Prague Fatale (a bernie gunther mystery) Philip Kerr
Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitvhvhitv (no idea how you spell it)
Aleksandr and the Mysterious Knightkat (a hoot... if you follow the compere the Market adverts)
Blackwork by the Royal School of Needlework,

Currently reading:Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross (from my cousin's private library this means her bedroom).

 

[Selkie]

Still reading Game of Thrones.

 

[Catch-up]

Still reading Game of Thrones.

Is it good?

 

[Selkie]

Yes! Just very long - or feels very long.

 

[chris.ph]

as above, it is a very long saga

 

[raisindot]

Reading the series is kind of like swimming through a river of molasses....it starts off fast at the beginning and then gets slower and longer and slower and longer and denser and stickier the more you go through it.

 

[Selkie]

I'm still on the first book.