There I was, sitting at my desk in my bay window, cross-legged upon my chair even though it is bad for my back, doing rather tedious data-entry of events onto websites (I'm working from home because our servers are all down at work), and occasionally (ok, regularly) distracting myself from work by reading blogs, when I came across the most brilliant blogging idea ever:
http://www.BlogaPenguinClassic.co.uk
Go here and sign up, and Penguin will send you a free classic on the condition that you blog about it within 6 weeks and send them the review. Maybe the data-entry is getting to me, but I found this thrilling, especially with the surprise element. Well, not a complete surprise as they email you to tell you what you're getting. I'm going to be receiving: The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski which, according to Amazon, 'allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.' Golly.
While I'm on the subject of books, I suppose I may as well ramble on about them a bit more. Currently, I am reading Marian Keyes. There, I said it. She's actually quite good for that genre. I am just numbing my mind a bit before I attempt Catch 22, which my book group has just chosen. We just read a brilliant book by Patrick Gale called Notes from an Exhibition, which was incredibly readable and a very evocative exploration of family and such things. Other recent reads include The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, and A Pair of Blue Eyes by the lovely Thomas Hardy. This summer I want to try and read Proust, but I don't know how realistic an ambition that is, what with the full-time job and all. It's a far cry from second year summer when I had weeks of sitting in a sunny porch reading all the things I thought I needed to for my degree. Though I never did get round to reading William Empsom, who I think was recommended in our very first lecture.
What are you reading? What are you planning to read? What is your favourite book?
Friday, 2 May 2008
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