Maureen Dowd was one of our favourites, until they moved her column out of the Sunday Times. It's a treat to get this once a week, but now if we want to read Maureen, I guess we have to go on-line.

Read "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood when I came home from Pip. It's one of her good ones, Booker short-listed, although chillingly and scary. If you like post-apocalyptic fiction, you might like it.

I love mysteries, especially by writers who have written lots of them! I have started on Elizabeth George, having seen some of the TV series on BBC TV.

Back to fantasy as well, I have started David Eddings fantasy series, The Dreamers.

Don't read alot of non-fiction, frankly. I should, but I need escape when I read right now. One of these days I will start reading history, since there is alot that I want to know about the past.

Gave my son a subscription to Harper's for Xmas, and he drops off the old mags for us to read, but I mostly let him stay on top of the issues, then he can feel superior to his mum about something.