getmethroughthis: 3BT

Thursday, May 22, 2008

3BT

1 Buttercups

2 Hilary's nails. Hilary is the nurse who does my dressing every week and her finger nails always look reassuringly clean and well scrubbed.

3 I was stuck in a queue of traffic behind an articulated lorry on a winding country lane, and then the lorry driver pulled into a lay-by and let us all past. Good one!

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Books I have read while I have cancer

The Pilot's Wife and The last time they met by Anita Shreve. She's a wonderful writer, but somehow both books left me feeling cheated. They both ended too abruptly and the second one REALLY frustrated me. Is this a fantasy or a ghost story or what? You can't do all that and then end a book like that.
The Secret life of bees - somebody Kidd - liked it very much, want to taste the food...made me have honey for breakfast
Touch not the cat - Mary Stewart - romp
Clayhanger - Arnold Bennett - read it in my teens and twenties, re-reading it is very satisfying. Think I am trying to reconnect with my roots...also, you feel you get to know Edwin so well, and recognise his feelings of the inside not matching the outside.
a thousand splendid suns - can't remember who wrote it, but he also wrote the kite runner. I found this really powerful and actually stayed up late to read it... not something I do often at the moment.
The Boleyn Inheritance - Phillipa Gregory - a good read - amazing that you can get so involved, even though you know what will happen to them all.
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder - bought it for S, read it myself. Hadn't realised how amazing these people were - able to turn their hands to anything.
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett - what a great book. And what a great ending.
Mad Cows - Kathy Lette - actually found this quite stressful and didn't quite believe the solution. Obviously bit into my fear of losing my children...so I couln't find it funny.
emma - jane austen - you can see her faults and still like her. Must re-read Middlemarch. I suppose the difference is that George Eliot didn't always dole out happy endings for everyone. Poor Tertius Lydgate.
Celandine - Steven Augarde - oh, a really good read. It had reality.
The Rose of Sebastapol - by somebody McMahon - enjoyed it, but didn't tie up all the ends
The fountain overflows - rebecca west- read it and loved it as a student, re-read it then, but haven't read it for years. Was really worried in the first few pages that I wouldn't like it, but sank into it again. Interesting being older - felt much warmer to Cordelia, much more generous.
Mary Swann - Carol Shields. Haven't read this for years, but she is one of the authors I have held on to.
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett - a really satisfying read.
Bean trees by barbara kingsolver - loved this, a real life affirmer. I always like her stuff.
Sovereign - by somebody Sansom - nice pageturner, atmospheric, liked it.
american gods - neil gaiman again - what a great book. Could he write some more, please?
The exploits of moominpappa - tove janssen - how great is this? But these are not children's books are they? I am still in love with Snufkin.
labyrinth - kate mosse - a great page turner but a bit of an anticlimax in the end. Be nice to each other? is that all?
Neverwhere - neil gaiman - saw him on the telly the other night talking about how this was about homelessness. How egocentri am I? I thought it was all about me getting a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness.
Little House in the Big Woods - reading it to S, so a bit of a cheat. But it's so detailed and takes you into this world that's cosy on the inside and scary on the outside. Hope she is enjoying it as much as I am.
Random Acts of Enduring Love - or something like that. Read it through but felt vaguely irritated by it. Then discovered it's based on a true story and felt guilty for feeling irritated by it. There you go.