Sunday 30 May 2010

May's End

Well it's almost the end of May and I am waiting for my last cheque to clear and my next pay cheque will be a day late as it's a bank holiday on Monday. So I wont updated my records until they both clear by the end of this week.
I have been bad these last two weeks as I have been buying up some books on Amazon, for some reason or another I have really gotten into reading apocalyptic and post apocalyptic stories. I have read quite a few of the well known ones but if you can recommend a title that you enjoyed reading then I would love to hear from you!
I have been very good with my weekly spending of £30.00 and have fulled up my little piggy bank and have now started to put my spare change in a jar. "Why not put it in a bank account?" you ask, well at the interest rates that are currently on offer there is not a lot of point, so the jar will do for the moment. As long as I don't start dipping into it I will keep it there.
How are you doing with your slog? How are you getting your debts down?

4 comments:

Carol said...

One of the first adult books i ever read was 'The Stand' by Steven King and i've since re-read it a couple of times. I'm not sure if this is the type of book you mean. It was in a trunk full of old books we found in the attic when we moved house. I'm sure you've read that one already though.

LisaClark said...

I haven't Carol - I always associate Steven King with horror (which I don't care for). Will have to have another look as I have see 'The Stand' on apocalyptic book lists on Amazon. Currently reading 'Alas, Babylon' and have just finished 'Earth Abides', 'The Death of Grass', 'Last Light' and 'A Canticle for Leibowitze'. What else did you have in your box??

Carol said...

I can't really remember what else was in the box to be honest, I only remember The Stand because it was so good. I think a lot of people only associate Steven King with horror but there's a lot more to him than that, like 'The Green Mile'and 'Misery' for example. Having said that i have grown out of him lately. As i got older i looked at his work with a slightly more critical eye and his work is flawed in some ways (I've come to see it as being a bit sexist). But he is a damn fine story teller.I've not read any other apocalyptic books, perhaps you could recommend one?

LisaClark said...

All the ones I listed early I found good reading. But if you want to start out with a more light read try 'Alas, Babylon' or 'Earth Abides'. They are kind of cosy postapocalyptic stories, both 'Death of Grass' (different title in the USA I think) and 'A Canticle for Leibowitze' are a little darker and then 'Last Light' is even more so. The latter was written just a few years ago but all the others are late '50 and '60 books.