What Are You Currently Reading

[sandabound]

Tomorrow it'll be the Sunday Herald

[War Baby]

"Some Like It Hot" by Tony Curtis and Mark A. Vieira. It all about the inside story of the making of the film. Would you believe that Frank Sinatra was wanted for this film and would have had to dress up as a woman every day while making the picture? Director Billy Wilder finally conceded that he could never have worked with Sinatra. "I'm afraid, he says, "that he would have run off after the first take. Bye-bye, kid, Frank would say. That's it. I'm going. I've got to see a chick."

Can you IMAGINE Frank Sinatra in drag? Somehow I don't think it would have suited his tough guy image.

[The Creeping Spleen]

"Warlord" by Angus Donald.

Fourth book in the Outlaw Chronicles series, which streamlines the legends of Robin Hood and aims to put them in a historical context so they actually make sense.

[The Egg Man]

Annie's Loo. The Govan origins of Scotland's community based housing associations. By Raymond Young.

[War Baby]

What happened to Star Trek:Enterprise on Pick, Channel 11 at 6 p.m....? A program about dogs has taken over. I last saw Star Trek on Friday of last week, and there was no mention that it was finished. Puzzled - I need my Star Trek fix.

[Botanic Squirrel]

Me too. Especially dissapointing because they just showed the first part of the whole Xindi storyline.

I need my T'Pol fix!

Right now I'm reading THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR by Donald Kagan, and SOLO by William Boyd - his 007 novel.

[The Creeping Spleen]

"Blackpool Highflyer" by Andrew Martin.

Fifth book in the "Jim Stringer: Steam Detective" series set in and around the Lancashire and Yorkshire railways in the early part of the 20th century.

[Doorstop]

[The Creeping Spleen]

I've been rattling my way through the epic fantasy series "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" by Tad Williams.

Comprising of "The Dragonbone Chair", "Stone of Farewell", and "To Green Angel Tower".

[banjo]

the long way home...the other great escape.john mc callum,true story about three glaswegians escaping from a german p o w camp.

[The Creeping Spleen]

"End of Empires" by Toby Frost.

Fifth book in the steampunk Dan Dare as written by Douglas Adams "Space Captain Smith" series.

Quite possibly the only book you'll ever read that takes the piss out of "Apocalypse Now" and "My Little Pony" at the same time.

[Fat Cat]

The Good, The Bad and The Furry by Tom Cox. Very funny.

[Josef]

I was on holiday for a week. I've never seen Game of Thrones, but the books got a great review in the LRB, so I thought I might give them a try. Now been through the seven of them, and can understand the fans who go "Hurry up and write the last two, you bastard, before you die."

Also managed The Corner by the blokes behind The Wire. (Which I have seen. All the way through. Four times), and I'm on to Seams Sewn Long Ago, by one of the Coats family descendants (a by-product of the HG visit to Paisley Open Doors day a couple of weeks ago).

[The Creeping Spleen]

Well, because the Star Wars book I got out of the library was crap, I'm re-reading "Rivers of London" by Ben Aaronovitch.

First novel in the "Peter Grant" series. Equal parts police procedural, murder mystery, and urban fantasy

[dimairt]

'Last Man Standing - Memoirs of a Political Survivor' by Jack Straw. A thoroughly good read, especially the chapter on Pinochet's arrest and how he dealt with it as Home Secretary.
Doubt he'll be voting for more powers for Scotland either. (Is it ok to mention the r********m now?)
Durachdan,

Eddy