What Are You Reading 2
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As you probably noticed I don't post in here on my own behalf which is mainly the fault of Messrs Tolkien and Pratchett as their output now isn't too fast and furious and they're the sort of author you can read over and over of course. 
So these days it takes something special for me to start with a new author or series and, as I strive to write my own trash, anything that gets published by a friend has huge interest for me and so, at long last I gave myself a pre-birthday treat and went mad on Amazon and bought 2 more volumes of the History of Middle Earth (Lost Tales 1 & 2) which is really for reference more than pleasure TBH AND - Perian's Journey by Alistair McGechie and one Sue Bridgwater better known on DreamWorlds to those of you who post there as well as Saranna...
Now I had started the book a few years ago when Sueranna kindly let me have a soft copy, but I only got so far before some 'disaster' hit and I stopped for one reason or another. But I'd been looking at a 'proper' copy on Amazon for some time and being a visual magpie the cover artwork started to intrigue me and so I decided to buy and it duly arrived on my doorstep and this time I gobbled it all up in about 5 days of late night indulgence.
Anyway - I thoroughly enjoyed it and so I've reviewed it on Amazon and you can see that HERE (may be a gap of 48 hours for public viewing whilst they check I haven't been profane - as if! :twisted: ). That link seems to work when I'm logged out and the review's there so enjoy!
So these days it takes something special for me to start with a new author or series and, as I strive to write my own trash, anything that gets published by a friend has huge interest for me and so, at long last I gave myself a pre-birthday treat and went mad on Amazon and bought 2 more volumes of the History of Middle Earth (Lost Tales 1 & 2) which is really for reference more than pleasure TBH AND - Perian's Journey by Alistair McGechie and one Sue Bridgwater better known on DreamWorlds to those of you who post there as well as Saranna... Now I had started the book a few years ago when Sueranna kindly let me have a soft copy, but I only got so far before some 'disaster' hit and I stopped for one reason or another. But I'd been looking at a 'proper' copy on Amazon for some time and being a visual magpie the cover artwork started to intrigue me and so I decided to buy and it duly arrived on my doorstep and this time I gobbled it all up in about 5 days of late night indulgence.
Anyway - I thoroughly enjoyed it and so I've reviewed it on Amazon and you can see that HERE (may be a gap of 48 hours for public viewing whilst they check I haven't been profane - as if! :twisted: ). That link seems to work when I'm logged out and the review's there so enjoy!
I have some novels I am dying to get into (including the book Q gave me) but as I can't get my eyes or brain around a full story right now I am still reading short stories (which I love as an art form anyway so all good there) and chapter driven books.
Biographies seem to fit that genre.... "This part of my life... that part of my life" etc.
Biographies are a dodgy thing to read. I find that people who are still "in business" (and who we might be interested in as topical), tend to write to make themselves seems sane enough to continue running thier business or career, so I usually prefer dead peoples biographies (and scientists and engineers in particular).
BUT.... I am reading the Biography of Ruby Wax. "How do you want me" .... OMG! What a foul foul childhood that poor woman had. Both of her parents were absolute nutters who should have been locked up for abuse on every level. Very confronting and emotional.... but amazingly open. She pulls no punches. I find myself saying to her "Nooooooooo! Don't go back home to visit!!!!!"
I AM trying to read fiction and "happy stuff" right now... but as gruelling as this is... there is the optimism that she survived her childhood (and well into her adulthood) and went on to make a good life mainly due to the amazing people who came into her life later.
Biographies seem to fit that genre.... "This part of my life... that part of my life" etc.
Biographies are a dodgy thing to read. I find that people who are still "in business" (and who we might be interested in as topical), tend to write to make themselves seems sane enough to continue running thier business or career, so I usually prefer dead peoples biographies (and scientists and engineers in particular).
BUT.... I am reading the Biography of Ruby Wax. "How do you want me" .... OMG! What a foul foul childhood that poor woman had. Both of her parents were absolute nutters who should have been locked up for abuse on every level. Very confronting and emotional.... but amazingly open. She pulls no punches. I find myself saying to her "Nooooooooo! Don't go back home to visit!!!!!"
I AM trying to read fiction and "happy stuff" right now... but as gruelling as this is... there is the optimism that she survived her childhood (and well into her adulthood) and went on to make a good life mainly due to the amazing people who came into her life later.
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