Don't laugh but I am in the process of clearing the house and am reliving my childhood.
I am reading  "Wombles to the rescue".
It is curiously compelling 

I have 'Ugly' and 'Beyond Ugly(?)' sitting out on the kitchen table waiting to be read.
I'm working myself up to it.

I've just got around to *The Time Traveller's Wife*....because I picked it up in Oxfam

I started the autobiography of Steve McQueen about a year ago.
What I managed to get through was very, very good. The guy had an interesting and tumultuous life.

"The Help" By Kathryn Stockett, is brilliant...

Ugly is the better book..

Hyperion by Dan Simmons is a classic if you persevere with it (it takes a while to get going but hell is it worth it). I just finished The Damnation Game by Clive Barker. Great writer, copout ending. He should stick to writing screen plays for movies (the Hellraiser films were excellent).

Look out for The God Delusion and if you're into sci fi anything by Isaac Asimov. Fever Pitch is a good read unless you absolutely hate footy.

I would be interested in what you think of that - I didn't like it at all and got very cross with the way it was written.

Just finished that twas good. Before that 'The Piano Teacher'

On holiday next week .......have ordered Tony Blairs Autibiography and also ................................narinders book on BB. Hope they arrive in time.

i have a feeling I might have to take a huge break between both of them.

I think that Richard Dawkins must lead such a sad pitiful existence - wrapped in a bubble of scientific self righteousness.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

about a quarter of the way though ... it's building up nicely

Nope, he just tells the troof innit 

I keep meaning to watch that film I've heard it's excellent.

Is it good? I may give that a go when I have finished the Wombles.

Mrs joe has started the third book of that Swedish trilogy. I'm Reading Le Carre's Hamburg book. I can't remember the title!

Oh they keep suggesting 'the girl WTDT' to me on Amazon. I'll buy it the next time.

Did you post about wombles in the music thread

Whose truth? Or the truth as he sees it? Cos no one actually knows the truth. We can disprove the Bible - i am not disputing that. We can disprove organised religion - I am not disputing that.
BUT we cannot disprove whether there is a higher being..... we can make assumptions, but we cannot disprove it categorically.

Tattood Girl thingy - to answer you all - it's good so far - I've got the second book to read too, so it had better be

I may have a bit of a fixation... just a tad....

I used to know one of the blokes who'd been in one of the costumes on Top of the Pops...he was uncle Bulgaria as I recall...

I just lent my collection of Malory Towers to a friend ... and now I have an urge to read them

I've read all three, and enjoyed them all. The first was bought for me as a present, and it's certainly not the type of book I would normally choose. But I really got stuck into it, and couldn't wait to get and read the other two!
The Time Travellers Wife.... I thoroughly enjoyed this too, though the way it was written did get on my nerves at times.

 You knew a womble

I have a Great Uncle  Bulgaria hand puppet and also a soft toy..

I had better stop with the Womble talk now.. poor Evelyn..

Oh good

I am reading The lovely bones. I watched the film and was fascinated.
Also have seen Girl with dragon tattoo.

I feel such a cheapskate for buying all my books from the British Heart shop.

I did...was about 20 years ago though....a girl he worked with let it slip to one person and on worky advertsiing type do one night everyone just burst into 'underground, overground' as he walked in.

I am finishing Let The Right One In, genuinely atmospheric and creepy in places but I found it hard to get through........it's taken me ages, that's probably just me, though!

Don't Jo.
I love second hand books and rarely buy new. I love routing round charity shops as well

I much prefered the book to the film TBH. What do you think?

I haven't read the book but the film was quite good.

I'm reading Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer - tis as good as all the others 

So am I but haven't found any Beezers or Toppers

I have found a lot of Beanos and Buntys

That's next on my list

Shhhhhhhh!!

I am working myself up to it as well