Books

I am thinking of finding an English course (just a one or two day thing) Noun: Is a person, animal place or thing. I can hardly remember any of my School english, other than my tutor was Mr Bogie – FACT!

I adore the English language, words often escape me and I don’t feel that I express myself as eloquently as I could. I get nervous about my choice of word and wonder if I am using it in the correct context, I couldn’t survive without spell check,  I find myself constantly questioning my own spelling, hence the basically written drivel you have the good grace to read from me.

I read all the time, Magazines, Cereal packets, Emails, Text messages, Books,  the paper and trash mags whilst I sat in the children’s Ward for the whole of Thursday this week…. Chicken Pox, I never for one moment thought that would land us in hospital, no doubt shortly to follow a blog on that whole debacle. So it’s surprising that I can never find the right word when I read so many of them. Maybe I should get the word a day toilet roll, or the app for Iphone, can you still get those?

As usual I digress.

After not being invited to join any of the book clubs that my friends were in, despite me enquiring “oh right, so you’re in a book club, how do you join a book club?”  Response “oh so & so set up, and asked us, and we’ve been doing it for ages now”  My thoughts – right so you’ve done it for ages, but I’m not good enough to join??  I thought I would ask some of my other friends if they would like to join a book club. They thankfully said yes and five of us meet every four weeks to go through the book that one of us has chosen. In fairness we devote approximately 8 consecutive minutes to the book then dip back in and out of it during our  3hour (on a bad day) love, life and kids gossip.

We have had a variety of books in the last 12 months from slavery, the holocaust to “Chick Lit”  currently we are reading Blind Trust by Red Szell, (one of our members is Hungarian, she is determined to only ever choose Hungarian novelists for the entire duration of our book club. My Grandmothers book club has been going for approximately 32years,  I am not entirely sure there are enough Hungarian novelists to cover that stretch) and then Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, I am in love with this novel, have purchased the 1940s movie and now want a huge Library, daily afternoon tea plus a full staff to take care of all domestic and household chores so that I can plan Balls, shop and pay visit to my friends and local acquaintances.  However as usual, I finished the Feb book in a couple of days, then started and finished the March book, in four days. I now have to make a choice for April and try not to read it before hand.  

I listened to BBC London the other morning and they discussed 200 years of Charles Dickens. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will listen to a reading from Great Expectations to mark 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. I think that’s cheating really, are they going to listen to the whole thing, and why aren’t they reading it?  To all the people reading this blog, yes that’s all three of you, how many Charles Dickens novels have you worked your way thorough, how regularly do you read now, and I don’t mean the internet, work material, magazines or blogs, twitter or facebook, are you a member of a book club? 

I have now made my choice of novel for the book club, I think it’s a choice of 3… One of them being a Charles Dickens.

Whilst this blog has been sitting in my drafts I found the following site – I currently read at 340+ WPM with an 80% retention. speed reading test http://www.readingsoft.com/index.html#results

Happy Reading 🙂