BOOK WORM
February 12th, 2007 Posted in BooksTo quote GK Chesterton, “there is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
Some people find it difficult to read many books, they tell me that they just don’t have time or that they are out of the habit. “What do you do on the train on the way to work?” I usually ask. The answer to which is usually “read the paper” or “listen to music” or “nothing”. A train journey, however short, is the ideal time to read a book, whether it be a few pages whilst waiting on the platform or a whole chapter while you rattle through the stations. Instead of reading all that depressing, propaganda nonsense in the papers, read a book.
Since Christmas 2006, I have read the following:
- Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
- Jeffrey Deaver - The Twelfth Card
- Tess Gerritsen - Never Say Die
- P.J. Tracy - Snow Blind
- James Patterson - Life Guard
and I am in the concluding chapters of Dan Brown’s Deception Point. I bought the much hyped Mo Hayder book Pig Island this evening, which I am very much looking forward to - you may have seen the posters in the Tube stations (if you weren’t too busy reading the latest celebrity gossip in the Daily Tat) - it’s the one whose cover has a rusty cross over a landscape background.
In fact, I think an early night is in order…
PS. Did I ever mention that I hate newspapers?
