• Very bookish

    Very bookish

    Still in Chiang Mai, gonna collect my India visa tomorrow then off to Chang Kong. I have just found an area of Chaing Mai that I actually like, typical really as it's the day before I leave (and it's the kings birthday today which means everywhere is closed). It's a lesson learnt I guess. I gave up on Ching Mai after spending 3 or 4 non-consecutive days here.

    So not much going on so (as this is as much a record of my trip for me as it is a way of avoiding sending out tonnes of emails) I thought I'd blab on about the books that I've been reading as reading is what I'm spending nearly all my time doing. I'm carrying a hell of a lot of books around with me (5 lonely planets for instance) and spending a lot of money in bookshops (and getting ripped off by book sellers on trade).

    Lost this bit of this post for some reason. Ain't gonna type it all out again so here is a list:

    A short history of nearly eveything - Bill Bryson
    Chronicles (Volume 1) - Bob Dylan
    Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel
    Cosmic Triggar (Volume One) - Robert Anton Wilson
    The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
    Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
    The Buddha of suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
    Northern Lights (His Dark Materials Trilogy) - Phillip Pullman
    The Black Album - Hanif Kureishi
    Midnight All Day (Short stories) - Hanif Kureishi
    Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
    Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie