Current reading matter

[Katharine]

I am reading a Christmas present The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery. It is quite a challenging and thought provoking read.

I have to say I thought that book was excellent, also comes in handy when debating the existence of global warming with your pig-headed younger brother (who incedentaly does bot believe in global warming _ )
Pan

Have you been able to convince him yet? I think Tim Flannery would convince anyone. Unfortunately I haven't had enough time to read recently but I have made time for this. It was my Mum's present to me, quite unlike her usual choice and now she says she cannot remember why she chose it! (Except that she knew I cared!)

[icomefromalanddownunder]

Munch!

I can't wait any longer for you to update your signature.

Any idea where I can find a copy of 'The Sheik'?

xx

[Angela Woodford]

Wonderful, isn't it?

I confess that I don't have the actual book, but quote only from an anthology of romance.

I have my local secondhand/antiquarian bookseller casting around for it! Hopefully, I'll have a copy for you to devour by the time of your visit!

Palely, swooningly, pantingly -

Munch

[Angela Woodford]

Munch!

I can't wait any longer for you to update your signature.

Any idea where I can find a copy of 'The Sheik'?

xx

As my secondhand bookseller has not yet come up with a copy of The Sheik, I thought I'd try my Yahoo seach engine thing, and behold! there is the entire romantic novel, all 150ish pages of it. So I have been obsessedly reading it online. It supposedly can be printed off, but my printer made a hiccupping noise and started off in a pale print (rather like our heroine in the strong arms of the Sheik) which was too difficult to read!

Edith Maude Hull didn't have much of a grip of paragraphing, but it's just enthralling. Now I long for a spirited Arab steed, a clinging riding habit and a desert-dwelling Sheik of my own!

Love from Munch

[midget]

But think of all that sand in your dinner, Angela

Maggie

[icomefromalanddownunder]

Munch! You're a star!

I will attempt to source the file and print off a couple of copies on a laser printer that I have access to. So convenient that I never got around to obtaining my very own personal access code for the printer, so that it will be logged under my Supervisor's account After yesterday - when she volunteered me to peel 300 odd grapes so that we could freeze the skins and seeds, then sticking over 120kg of grapes into our domestic freezer in one go, with, of course, drastic consequences, she owes me big time

As for spirited Arab steeds - I'm more into Clydesdale crosses these days

xxx

[J.R.]

The Salem Witch Trials.

Though I've only just started it.

[MarkB]

There are plenty of copies of The Sheik around:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Searc ... k&x=77&y=7

[englishangel]

I have just read this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Midwife-Tr ... _f_t_k2a_1 obviously with a vested interest and it didn't teach me much about midwifery but it taught me a LOT about social conditions in the East End before during and after the Second World War. Jennifer Worth (the author) realised that there was no author for midwives similar to James Herriott for vets so wrote this to redress the balance. In parts it is humorous, because people are humorous, but the poverty and deprivation leaps out from every page.

[Katharine]

I wonder whether that would make a good present for my mother, Mary. She trained as a midwife in the late 30s, I think. It may have been very early 40s. She worked as a District Midwife for a short time and, I may have said this before, was had up while cycling to her first case - she rode straight across a zebra crossing and was fined 7/6 for 'scattering the pedestrians'. Can't help thinking that some people could do with being fined for that now!

[englishangel]

It made me laugh, and it made me cry, if you go to that Amazon page there are 20 reviews giving it 4.9 out of 5, I think she will love it.

[englishangel]

Incidentally the paperback edition just published is No.1 on the non-fiction paperback list.

[Angela Woodford]

Mary, did you ever read an edited collection of the letters written to Marie Stopes? Mostly, the letters are from the 1920s.

It's heartrending and sometimes funny. Letters - especially about contraception - from all "classes" of women who had previously had nobody to advise them, and to whom MS in her book "Married Love" had given an acceptable sexual language in which to express themselves. And sometimes questions from men too.

Bother, now I wish I could look at it again! But I lent it to a midwife and never got it back! You may know it anyway -

Love from Munch

[englishangel]

I haven't read the letters but I have read her biography which had some of them in.

[blondie95]

finished ceilia ahern's latest which was not as good as the others but a thorughly good chick lit read! now on Jane Green's latest-another very good chick lit writer