I'm afraid I don't really read books at the moment... at some point if I ever get the time I'd quite like to finish a few books I started far too long ago.

One of them is "Seeing Things" - it's Oliver Postgate's auto-biography, it's a beautifully written book about a really charming chap and how "Small Films" came about - a great account of something that brought great pleasure to a huge number of people and how it started in his garden shed

Although I have a softback version I also have the whole book on CD - maybe I'd stand a better chance if I tried reading it that way instead :-) 

I'm also a big Terry Prattchett fan but am way behind on my Discworld.

These days most of my reading is based round research on the Internet, or cookery books and computer manuals! 

The Oliver Postgate book sounds interesting - I loved Bagpuss and Ivor The Engine - Porp porp! as a kid.

 Nowadays I don't really get time to read for long, so I end up dabbling.  Although I have just finished reading "A Small Token of Gratitude" (History of the Taylor Family 1700-1947) written by my brother.  A book about our family tree, beautifully written too. Well they do say you should write a book in your lifetime and he has!

My reading at the moment consists of the Usborne collection of Apple Tree Farm stories and Roald Dahl - bedtime stories for the kids!

Have recently developed an allergy to Mr Men books, esp the new ones that imply that Roger Hargreaves wrote them when he didn't. Thank you, babysitters, for saving me the trouble of having to read them.

Feeling bereft as I've just finished  D.H.Lawrence's 'Rainbow' and a fab book called 'Soul Banquets' about meals and church. Tempted to gobble the next book down before properly digesting either. Either book, I mean, though church can be hard to swallow sometimes too...

I recently WROTE Must Know Stories. But I know that a lot of St John's folk have bought a copy and I hope that some of you have read it. So please say what you think - honestly. After all the nonsense blogged about it by people who never read it, lets add some comments from people who actually have.

 Here ends my heartless self-promotion! 

PS Katharine has always hated the Mr Men books - I love them 

I'm not a great reader as such, but I often get my head stuck inside computer manuals. Sounds sad I know, but some of the manuals are written well nowadays, and I enoy them.

Carrying on from that I also prefer to read factual rather than fiction. Never did get my head around made up stuff, fact is often much more entertaining.

My last big read was Gene Krantz's account of the moon missions, "Failure is not an option'. If you got a kick out of Ron Howard's 'Apollo 13' film, then you seriously need to read this book. The book charts Krantz's life from the minute he started at NASA right through to the end of the Apollo mission. It's the only book I've ever read that I've been literally unable to put down. I found myself rushing home from work just so I could read this book. I invariably ended up reading till 2 o'clock in the morning. The exitement is infectious.

Just finished aformentioned book (see opening post )- what a fab story! a bit of an emotional rollercoaster but good twists and turns along the way. Now what shall I read next?..... 

Must Know Stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr men are exceedingly monotonous, but seem to appeal very strongly to small children (or is it that they know I hate reading them and just try to wind me up).

Well, I tend to start books and then never get round to finishing them. These days I am always asleep before reading two pages. I am also not a great fiction reader.

At present (and for the last month!) I am reading "final Gifts" a book about understanding and helping the dying. It's emphasis is on understanding the symbolic language often confused with random ramblings of those with weak voices and clouded minds at the end of their lives. Maybe some folk at this stage get a little foretaste of heaven and I would love to be able to share it.

Currently supposed to be reading WCAG Accessibility documentation but it's making my brain hurt so I'm skiving and playing with the forum instead

Co-incidently, I was having a discussion about Mr Men books only today, and we were saying that too many of the stories feature wizards, talking worms & trees with doors in with staircases!  Yes, very monotonous!

Still on the Roald Dahl books, but have now advanced from Apple Tree Farm onto Lift the flap books!