Book – How To Talk To A Widower Author – Jonathan Tropper Year – 2007 Genre – Lad-Lit (thank you Amazon!) Recommended to me by Bob of Bob’s Blog Reading through the blurb of this book, it appears to be the kind of book that I would never read. A man loses his wife in…
Month: March 2010
Book 7 – The Book of Fascinating Facts
Book – The Book of Fascinating FactsPublisher – John Blake PublishingYear – 2007Genre – Toilet BookBought for me by Claire Hogan (sorry, by Secret Santa. shhhhhhh!) I love fact books. I have loads of them, and can never get enough of the useless trivia that they give. I love to start a sentence with ‘Did…
Book 6 – The Scarecrow and his Servant
Book – The Scarecrow and his ServantAuthor – Philip Pullman Year – 2004Genre – Children’s I picked this one up on a whim from a charity shop a few weeks back based upon two reasons. Firstly, I am currently playing the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (plug plug plug!), and secondly, Philip Pullman is…
Book 5 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Book – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The GalaxyAuthor – Douglas AdamsYear – 1979Genre – Science FictionRecommended to me by my Dad for roughly the past twenty years, and lent to me by Alex Campbell. The above is not much of an exaggeration. My Dad has raved about Douglas Adams ever since I was a child,…
Book 4 – The World’s Stupidest Instructions by Michael O’Mara
Book – The World’s Stupidest InstructionsAuthor – Michael O’MaraYear – 2004Genre – Toilet BookBought for me by my sister Jeni This is the first book of my blog which would fall under the category of ‘Toilet Book’, which loosely translated, means any book that can remain in the bathroom for reading from time to time…