Book of love
I love reading books to Emma, it gives you a great excuse to read some of your old childhood favourites. For example I recently reread The Fantastic Mr Fox to Emma as I remember it being, well fantastic, frankly.
Ellie's books on the other hand are not nearly so much fun. The problem being on of plot or rather lack of plot. She has book called Teddy Bear. Inside this admittedly colourful book there is no story lie, no character development, and no Teddy Bear (he is on the front cover but makes no appearance once you open the book). There are in total 8 words in the book. These range from Elephant (next to a colourful picture of an elephant) to Rabbit (yes you've guessed it). There are in fact more words on the back of the book, describing the copy right laws and when it was 1st published, and what type of material it is pinted on, that there are words in the book.
As for me, I am currently reading John Peel's (auto)biography. I say it that way becuase he wrote the 1st half but died before the end. It is a cracking read, and has some truly laugh out loud stories within, I would highly recommend it to anyone. But it made me start to think about the increasing number of biographies I have read in recent years. Here are some of my favourites:
1) Full Time - by Tony Cascarino
2) Scoring an expert's guide by Frank MacAvennie
3) The Dirt - Motley Crue
4) Billy by Pamela Stephenson
5) Tragically I was an only twin - William Cook (about Peter Cook)
Yes all light hearted and not too high brow but thoroughly enjoyable reads.
Ellie's books on the other hand are not nearly so much fun. The problem being on of plot or rather lack of plot. She has book called Teddy Bear. Inside this admittedly colourful book there is no story lie, no character development, and no Teddy Bear (he is on the front cover but makes no appearance once you open the book). There are in total 8 words in the book. These range from Elephant (next to a colourful picture of an elephant) to Rabbit (yes you've guessed it). There are in fact more words on the back of the book, describing the copy right laws and when it was 1st published, and what type of material it is pinted on, that there are words in the book.
As for me, I am currently reading John Peel's (auto)biography. I say it that way becuase he wrote the 1st half but died before the end. It is a cracking read, and has some truly laugh out loud stories within, I would highly recommend it to anyone. But it made me start to think about the increasing number of biographies I have read in recent years. Here are some of my favourites:
1) Full Time - by Tony Cascarino
2) Scoring an expert's guide by Frank MacAvennie
3) The Dirt - Motley Crue
4) Billy by Pamela Stephenson
5) Tragically I was an only twin - William Cook (about Peter Cook)
Yes all light hearted and not too high brow but thoroughly enjoyable reads.
posted by Nick at 7:53 PM
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