The Express Yourself Meme is hosted by Jackie @ Bouquet of Books and Dani @ Entertaining Interests. And their 'question' this week is what was the last book you read?
I'm going to be extremely literal here, since the last book I read is not some grand war-and-peace-length tome, nor even a novel, it was a delightful coffee-table book that I picked off our bookshelves for some light reading, Absolutely Typical Too, by Victoria Mather & Sue Macartney-Snape. The blurb on Amazon sums up the book:
I love this book. I read it over and again from time to time, and it makes me smile every time.
So, what was the last book you read?
One of the most popular features of the Saturday "Telegraph Magazine", begun in late 1994, is "Social Stereotypes", a weekly series of colourful and funny caricatures by artist Sue Macartney-Snape, with texts by Victoria Mather. This is the second collection of these cartoons.Each vignette is no more than 300 words long, but each is also a divine dip into gently sarcastic observations on different characters from (it being the Telegraph) mostly the middle and upper classes. What makes them so funny is that there is a grain of truth in every single one, and, for me, I found that I had met many of these varied weird creatures in my life: I went to school with the like of <school girl>, and, being a vicar's daughter and therefore at the centre of village life, I knew many a woman in the mould of <maiden aunt> too (and their dogs) ;).
I love this book. I read it over and again from time to time, and it makes me smile every time.
So, what was the last book you read?
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Last book I read was Unexpected Texas by a twitter buddy. It was a travel book about quirky places she discovered where she lived in Texas.
ReplyDeleteI've found that the place I live is always the place I don't explore enough :)
DeleteThat does sound interesting and funny. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's one of those books that you can leave lying on the coffee table, or in the loo ;P for folks to dip into. :)
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