flight paths discussion

oh joy! it is finally warm enough to sit outdoors with a book! Where and what are you reading?

It is a constant temptation whenever I see a sunny bench, to stop what I am doing and pull out my book.

I am almost finished Screwtape Letters restricting myself to a chapter a day.

The stuff of thought has gotten really interesting and I encourage Ellie to pick that one up again :-)

The Sons of Heaven was maybe a poor choice, as it turns out to be the last in a series, of which I have read a couple, but still feel I'm missing chunks.

Heard you & will do-but first, I have to finish The Recognitions and The Instructions-the end of either of which (let alone both) seems a loooong way off! :/

Just checked out the Instructions and feeling a bit strange that I had not picked up on this before. I don't think I have ever seen it come through our store. On the other hand, I think we have only had the recognitions once, for a week.

It was such a while since I read that book, I am enjoying reading the discussions.

I admire your ability to tackle two giants at once. Personally,I can never read two equally long and interesting books at the same time,they intertwine in my head. In a way, it's exciting the way that books read at the same time play off of each other, but on the other hand I want to keep the details of each in the right place.

On the 91 bus from Crouch End to St Pancras... living the dream.

At work and having a break Time Of Death by Alex Barclay , it's a crime !

reading The Recognitions, Don Quixote and V

David wrote: "On the 91 bus from Crouch End to St Pancras... living the dream."

great, but what are you reading?

Jim wrote: "reading The Recognitions, Don Quixote and V" OMG Jim, and I suppose the Quixote is in spanish...

The recognitions and V AND Don Q! how do you and Ellie manage it : I feel overwhelmed with information,and when reading an epic I often need something diversionary,which for me could never be another epic.

I have finished my first reading of The Screwtape Letters - How a Senior Devil Instructs a Junior Devil in the Art of Temptation. and reluctant to put it down so provoative it has been. I am not really finished with this book.
I believe it is its own kind of epic.

Winding up with Pinker The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature which has epic ambitions.

The science fiction is purely diversionary, company when I.m unwinding and good for public transport and lineups.

Magdelanye wrote: "The recognitions and V AND Don Q! how do you and Ellie manage it..."

In my case, I read them at different times of day. For a complex book like the Recognitions, I read mid-morning with a cup of coffee. For Don Q and V, I read at night before going to sleep. Somehow, Because I'm in different states of mind at different times of day, they don't mash-up...

apropos this different time of day rountine: I was so close to finishing Pinker that I pulled him out yesterday afternoon thinking I might as well...only to discover that I couldn't quite focus. Put it down and easily finished it when I picked it up this morning, in its regular timeslot.

It comes as a surprise that I have become somewhat of a slave to my own eccentric routines :-)

Weighed down by 850 pages of Fall Of Giants by Ken Follett

Is that the sequal to Pillers of Earth?

I have just started a similarly epic historical novel by Noah Gordon

Same author but disconnected I believe

Just looked it up and yeah it seems like the launch of a new series.
I havent read him and confused by conflicting appraisals. I guess you must like him to start this.

Reading Shaman on the bus yesterday I came to a terrble part and all of a sudden I was crying on the bus for the crimes of past and had to put the book away