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^ Beat me to it. Just saw this on Reddit.

RIP Steve Hed

http://stevetilford.com/2014/11/26/steve-hed-passed-away/

^ Just came here to post that :-)

Karenina is dragging a bit, but I am determined to finish it. I'm shelving it for a couple of days while I read this:

I listened to a Q&A on the Guardian Books podcast with the author yesterday and just had to read this book.

Just heard an interview with him on the Guardian books podcast. Added his works to my to-read list.

Pelican Books' new website is a pocket library accessible from smartphones and tablets

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/pelican-books-new-website-is-a-pocket-library-accessible-from-smartphones-and-tablets-9856084.html

Nice!

Started this last night:

Been off coffee for a while, but a meeting at a local Norwich coffee house with @jdp yesterday has rekindled my love, so I thought I'd fish the Aeropress out of the cupboard.

Brought it into work today with my Porlex mini. Had my first coffee about an hour ago and boy, can't I tell my body isn't used to coffee any more. I'm sat here buzzing my tits off!

Just finished The Spy who came in from the cold. Bloody awesome.

At first I wasn't too sure where it was going, the finale unravelled into something brilliant.

Finished The Count of Monte Cristo this morning.

Fuck. Proper book hangover now, I feel almost empty now that this epic journey is finished. Isn't it funny how a good book can do that to you?

What an awesome story. I can hardly find any fault in it. Well crafted, beautifully written.

kill it! kill it with fire!

Right, thats it! No more! No more buying books until I've finished all the others.

My personal yardstick of length of books is:

General modern paperback fiction, around 400 pages I can get through in 3 days max. These are like your Le Carre - they read like a movie and the pages sometimes seem to turn themselves. Thats 3 nights reading and the odd lunchtime or bog sitting.

I sometimes will stumble upon one of those books that you just can't put down, and even if they are 500 or so pages long, I can devour them in 24 hours, sometimes that's in just 3 sittings and it involves a shit-its-3-in-the-morning-i-really-must-put-this-down-and-get-some-sleep jobbie.

Then there are those meatier prose books, like some of the classics, which I almost always find harder to get through because they are meatier. Brothers Karamazov is under 800 pages yet took me a month to get through, whereas I'm over 600 pages into Count of Monte Cristo in just over a week.

I quite fancy that Flannagan.

Those arent short books either. Are you a fast reader or am I just slow?

^ Same here. But then I inadvertently popped into another Oxfam whilst out for a walk with two of the kids this morning and this happened:

Looks like I've got plenty to keep me going until Christmas.

Picked up the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of Karenina in Oxfam for a song this morning. Bonzer

This just arrived. Looking forward to starting this after Count

^ Like a boss. Source?

Currently on Chapter 34 of The Count. Well good.

Launchbar 6 ftw

Up to chapter 15 of The Count and fuck, this book is amazing. I'm not sure if its a French lit thing but the prose is quite often beautiful.

This is why I'm happy I purchased a non-retina MBP. Maxed out the Ram to 16gb for about 50 quid. I do have screen envy though, I must admit.

All on my To Read list.

Moby Dick
War & Peace
Anna Karenina

All in good time :-)