I was given a copy of Vurt by Jeff Noon recently, really enjoying it & wish I had more time to read it faster.

I have just read a good book about tax havens, the damage they cause etc,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Treasure-Isl...3446137&sr=1-1

and the autobiography of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Julian-Assan...3446233&sr=1-1

Both books reveal some of the world's secrets, and are to be recommended!

That changed your life or just a book you really enjoyed? I am always looking for a recommendation...

The Casual Vacany by J.K. Rowling

I am reading "Canada" by Richard Ford. Don't know what to make of it yet. But don't read it if you're mellow.

The prince.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

African Laughter - Doris Lessing.

I've started reading Soulless by Gail Carriger. It's book one in a series called "The Parasol Protectorate." It's set in Victorian London where vampires and werewolves are not only real, but sit in the House of Lords. There's even a government agency---the Bureau of Unnatural Registry---created to keep an eye on them. Can't really tell more since I just started, but this looks like a fun series.

Soulless (English: Original)

Soulless (German)

Soulless (French)

Soulless (Italian)

Just clarifying---you mean the original political treatiste by Niccolo Machiavelli?

'Three Bags Full' by Leonie Swann.... 'A sheep detective story', originally written in German, but I'm reading the English version.

A story about a flock of sheep trying to find out who killed their shepherd. Yes, really. I've only just started it, but I've heard good things about it, not a children's book, despite the title.

As the 'Guardian' said.. 'the best sheep detective novel you'll read all year.'

Cosmo conception by Max Heindel

Ah finished that one two weeks back.

Now it's Homer's, Odyssey.

I just finished the second book in the series, Pollen. Another really good read; now onto the next one.

The final reckoning, by Sam Bourne

"In The Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson...Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.

Great non-fiction read!

Cheers!

"The Cunning Man"

For anyone who hasn't read the prolific Canadian auther Robertson Davies, he is certainly life altering. Within one series I was hooked on his incredible insight in to the human character. Start with "The Deptford Trilogy"

Deborah Tannen, Gender and Discourse. And I am thinking that sometimes people just talk too much. Way too much. Whoever it is, gender wise.

Deutsch als Fremdsprache Niveastufe A1, Themen 1 aktuell, Kursbuch

The last thing I just finished is the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality series - it's on fanfiction.net. Think of if Harry Potters parents had been scientists and he knew about confirmation bias.

It has a brilliant bit quite early on where he realises that because in magical Britain (i.e. JK Rowling's rules) there gold:silver exchange rate is ridiculously wrong, that given a week he could own the planet.

I'm currently reading Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series to my daughter, about 30 minutes each night. That's also really good. Did the people kill the wicked witch of the woods - or just an old lady who lived alone and talked to herself a bit?