The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain.


Right now in rotation are:

Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance
Osho

and

Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The science of slave psychology
by Alvin Morrow

I haven't had much time to finish the book I've been reading FOREVER. It's called MARY CALLED MAGDALENE - A NOVEL. It's fascinating.

even though i read it a few years ago, and it isn't exactly the most challenging thing ever.

Halter (Marek) : La Mémoire d'Abraham

http://www.amazon.fr/M%C3...2221091736

HAVING A MARY SPIRIT IN A MARTHA WORLD.


We have a meeting about it tonite.

Its the one where I am praying for common sense.

A kinda weird book, its been banned in China and gave me nightmares the first night

Richard Branson's Autobiography... it's really good and very interesting so far

got done with this a few weeks ago



seriously nobody makes me laugh as much as Hornby does. Classic

..


We pass a homeless kid in a doorway huddled up in a sleeping bag and David feels in his pockets, presumably for some change. (Let me be fair to David: he always does this. He does not, miraculously, Have Views on the homeless.) He doesn't find anything, and he asks me for my purse, with many apologies, and another explanation as to why he thought he had his wallet with him when he didn't. I don't think about what I'm doing - why should I? - and give it to him, and he proceeds to give the kid everything that's in there - about eighty pounds in notes, because I went to the cashpoint today, and three or four pounds in change. As far as I know, we're left with nothing.

'David, what are you doing? We haven't even got the tube fare home.'

'I kept a fiver back.'

'I wanted to get a taxi.' The couple is still watching me, and I don't like the whine in my voice.

'I'll bet this chap would love to get a taxi,' says David with a maddening sweetness in his voice. 'But he can't.'

'Well, where's he going to go in a bloody taxi?' I shout. 'He hasn't got anywhere to go. That's why he's sleeping here.' I don't understand why I'm like this, but then, I don't understand why David's like that.

'Oh that's nice,' says the male half of the theatre couple.

'My husband's just given away everything we own,' I tell him.

'That is just not true,' says David. 'Our house? The money in our joint account? The money in our savings account? We won't even notice this tomorrow.'

Two or three other people have gathered to watch, and I realise that this is an argument I can't win - not here, not now - so we walk towards the underground station.

'You can't go round giving eighty quid to homeless people!' I hiss.

'I am aware that I cannot go around giving eighty quid to every homeless person. I just wanted to do it that one time. See how it felt.'

'And how did it feel?'

'Good.'

I don't get any of this.

'When were you ever interested in being good?'

'I wasn't talking about being good. I was talking about feeling good.'

'Well... Get drunk. Get stoned. Have sex. Don't give all our bloody money away.'

'I'm tired of all those things. I was stuck. I need to do something different.'

'What's happened to you? What happened when you went away? Where did you go?'

'Nothing bloody happened to me.'

The old David, back with a bang.

'Just because I wanted to see a play and gave a few quid to a street kid? Jesus.' He takes a deep breath. 'I'm sorry. I know my behaviour must seem confusing.'

'Will you tell me what's been going on?'

'I don't know if I can.'

We reach Leicester Square tube station and try to put the five pound note into the ticket machine but it's too crumpled, and the machine spits it out again. We take our place in the queue behind two hundred Scandinavian tourists and three hundred British drunks. And I still want to be in a taxi.
[Edited 9/12/07 0:14am]

I'm just finishing 'The Football Factory' by John King. I'm going to read 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian' by Marina Lewycka next.

JDInteractive said:

is that any good? I picked it up in waterstones but was distracted by a french girl looking at sandman comic books

jami0mckay said:

It's very easy to read. I've actually got the trilogy also including 'Headhunters' and 'England Away'. King gives a spot on insight into modern British culture which is very bleak.

JDInteractive said:

cool i'll try not to get distracted next time

jami0mckay said:

It's much better than the film too which plays to the moronic.

JDInteractive said:

and its got Danny Dyer in it, can't stand him

jami0mckay said:

He's an iron so that's a redeeming quality but I know what you mean.

I'm about to read Anne Rice: Lasher, #2 in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches chronicles. I just bought it and am looking forward to reading it.

evenstar3 said:

No, it's not, but it's a great story. I really enjoyed it. Sugar is an amazing character. The ending is fab.

At the moment I'm reading Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund. Great story about Marie Antionette.
[Edited 9/12/07 9:02am]

The Time Traveler's Wife. It's a very interesting book and so far I'm loving it.

JasmineFire said:

TheDoctor said:

that book is on my 2 read list- but the list gets bigger everyday

occupational hazard of working in a book store

prb said:

I always wanted to work in a bookstore, they're such relaxing places, tho I guess its different if u work there??

jami0mckay said:

its not 2 bad- if u have 2 work 4 a living- u might as well do something u like- and i looove books. its great helping ppl with their selections and talking about books- and the staff discount is an added bonus
a bit busy from now until xmas- so not much chance 2 relax- but im on leave at the moment a chance 2 recharge the batteries ready 4 the xmas new release on-slaught

the down side is i need another bookcase- and a bigger house 2 store them in

and even my 8yo wont get rid of any of his books- i wonder where he got that habit from

prb said:

coool and I know what u mean but I can't bear to sell any!

jami0mckay said:

i no- its bad isnt it
i actually gave a heap 2 my mother the other day- on the proviso that i could borrow them back if i wanted 2
it made space on my bookshelves- only 4 the time it took 2 fill them with the piles sitting on the floor

hi, im prb, and im a bookaholic

prb said:

its been 2 weeks since I last bought a book, and no I don't read alone