04/12/2006

I have been discussing Cold Comfort Farm, which I loved - though few years since I read it. I don’t think Stella Gibbons wrote anything else. It was very much in the same vein as the early Nancy Mitfords - they are quite similar. - Love in a Cold Climate etc . Also similar is Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle – a much under-rated book which I read a couple of months ago; which bears no resemblance at all to 101 Dalmations.

2/12/06

I have just read: The Da Vinci Code -
The New Sonia Wayward - Michael Innes.
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka( brilliant - and not in Ukranian - if you see what I mean............)

I Am Now about half way through The Eighth Circle - by Stanley Ellin.

I am trying to zigzag through my unread dectective/ thrillers - so I go modern British - Golden Age American - Golden age British - Modern American - something completely different and then back to the beginning again - System doesn't work as I keep getting distracted.............. or forgetting where I was..........