I'm Busy Reading....

[Scurra]

Have you read 1602? That sets the Superhero universe back 400 years - lots of clever side references and plausible ideas.

[MBH]

No - I'll have a check for that one.

I've been out of the 'comics' world for a LONG time, but the stories are there in my mind as if it were yesterday. The fact that they now come bound in 'graphic novel' form is new to me, and the price for buying them is probitive (since a scan through shows they are repeats of the weekly ones I used to get for 10p).

In the local comic shops I've seen dubious series of 'zombie' superhero character, etc, but never been tempted. The beauty of the original story telling was the reality of the people involved - things didn't go right just because they were superheros...... but ZOMBIES ?

[Laura]

I've just started 'Tea Time for the Traditionally Built', the latest No 1 Ladies detective Agency book. Also enjoying the TV series of the first book.

[giraffe]

I read the first one and really didn't enjoy it.

Just started "The Guensey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" (I think that's what it's called) Also reading a strange book where half the characters have Alzheimers, but it is very weird. The other half of the characters all seem to be barking mad, but maybe that is the point.

[dcfanjo]

I am just about to start 'One Day at a Time' by Danielle Steel - quite apprpriate title for me at present I feel

[MBH]

Graphic Novels go too quick, so I've now moved on to Living With the Dead by Kelley Armstrong.

I've enjoyed all the Otherworld Series where each book is narrated by a different character in a world that looks very like ours but seen from the hidden 'supernatural' world.

She regularly gives me 'laugh out loud' moments, and I'm looking forward to this one.

[Scurra]

Graphic Novels go too quick,

I make that mistake quite often too. It's something to do with the way that whole pages can often go by without any dialogue, but you forget that those are the sort of pages that in a novel would be taken up with lengthy descriptions of appearance, place or atmosphere.

I think it's something to do with the efficiency with which our brains process visual images, and therefore we tend to skim them - sometimes without properly appreciating quite how clever the artist (and writer in the case of comics) has been in conveying such information.

(To add another to your list: look out for "RED SON" - it's the Superman story retold as if he had come to earth and been brought up in Communist Russia. A clever, thought-provoking idea.)

[giraffe]

I've fininshed both books.

I would recommend "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" funny and moving at the same time, not very long.

I woudn't recommend "The story of forgetting" very weird.

[dcfanjo]

I've been reading - What I wrote ages back when I was thinking about writing my 'life story', just amazing how much I had forgotten to include from my first 5 years of life

[Scurra]

Blimey. I can barely remember my last five years of life, let alone my first!

[Wulfruna]

let alone my first!

No comment..... but I've got the photos to threaten you with.....

[LAT]

Oh go on Wulfruna! Got something to share with us?

[Scurra]

but I've got the photos to threaten you with.....

I shall claim they've all been photoshopped and deny all knowledge.

[Bunnylump]

Marvellous!! Wulfruna - next time he's being awkward about giving hints you could wheel out an old photo of him on his potty! Can't wait!!!

[clvrlad]

I shall claim they've all been photoshopped and deny all knowledge.

doesnt that mean Wulfruna can photoshop them and we'd belive them inspite of your protests.......

[Wulfruna]

Well, of course, you have to realise that they are so ancient ( ) that they can't be digitised without expert assistance - and guess who is my usual expert in these matters.....
No naked babies on the hearthrug, I'm afraid - nor with a funny hat on.......

[clvrlad]

well im sure they can arrive at a meet

or if you ask MBH im sure he could make i mean scan some pictures

[MBH]

[dcfanjo]

I'm busy reading Stehen fry's Twitters, highly amusing

[Cenwulf]

RAIN HALTS MATCH - BOB ADULANT.
Yorkshire in the 1950s; either Sam has been playing with the letters or it's all about cricket. Guess which.