This is the blog/travel journal for Chris & Joanne Reilly from Glasgow, Scotland. After quitting our jobs and selling our house, we plan to travel around the globe for the next year.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

The Day I Read A Book

Another one of the bounus's of our trip is the chance to catch up with some books especially when your stuck on a bus or a train for over 24 hours. Thanks to everybody who have given us or swapped books along the way, it has been well apreciated.

Here's some of the book, click the titles for a small synopsis.

The Idea of India - Sunil Khilnani
Absoulute Altitude - Martin Buckley
D.I.Y. The Rise of Lo fi Culture - Amy Spencer
ChickenHawk - Robert Mason
What Should I Do with My Life? - Po Bronson


The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Brethern - John Grisham
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
1984 - George Orwell


One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kessey
Deception Point - Dan Brown
Shame - Salmon Rushdie
Clough The Autobiography - Brian Clough
Porno - Irvine Welsh


The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh
The Third Man & The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene
Down Under - Bill Bryson
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell


Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Red Zone - Mark Frankland
Hitler's Peace - Philip Kerr
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
What do I want to do with my life? -
Ruthless.com - Tom Clancy & Martin Greenberg

We've probably read about another dozen or so that we can't remember at the moment. If anybody has read any good books lately, stick it in the comments box.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thoroughly recommend "The Big Book of Swedgers" by Sheila Blige, "A Funny Thing Happenened On The Way To The Neocropolis" by Iain Duncan Smith and "The Broons : Never Mind The But'N'Ben..here comes The Broons - the best of the 70s" published by DC Thomson

Good shout for Porno - yasss for the Juice Terry - greatest aereated watersalesmen in the world.

1:32 am

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can't help but notice that I've read most of the books on the list but then again I'm a pompous, superior english teacher - yours AN Other teacher, deepest Lanarkshire

12:39 pm

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Dreaming of (Tyne)castles,

if you've read any Dan Brown you'll be getting a shoe in from me.

Next time you step onto the five a side park, watch who is stepping off.

:-)

7:44 pm

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey big sis hope ur counting the days till you come back

craig

1:40 pm

 

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