Bookworms: What are you reading at the moment?

Just Me by Sheila Hancock. Follow-up book to the biography of her late husband, John Thaw. Reasonably interesting and an easy read but the problem is that you find yourself wishing there were more references to Thaw than there are. This is essentially a travelogue of a widow and it does tend to get a bit morally-preachy in places when harking back to the Second World War but Hancock herself comes across as a very interesting woman.
 
In my research into nutrition I have discovered this free e book

d'Adamo, Peter J - Eat Right for Your Type - Blood Groups

I am blood group B.
I have only part read/browsed it yet, but what I have read makes sense when I recall which foods I have a sluggish reaction to, and those which I instinctively avoid.

I am surprised to find that chicken is mildly toxic for me, but turkey and pheasant are fine.
That is just one of many snippets of dietary advice aimed at blood group B.

I am going to give the recommendations a try.
Nothing ventured - nothing gained.
 
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MargaretR said:
In my research into nutrition I have discovered this free e book

d'Adamo, Peter J - Eat Right for Your Type - Blood Groups

I am blood group B.
I have only part read/browsed it yet, but what I have read makes sense when I recall which foods I have a sluggish reaction to, and those which I instinctively avoid.

I am surprised to find that chicken is mildly toxic for me, but turkey and pheasant are fine.
That is just one of many snippets of dietary advice aimed at blood group B.

I am going to give the recommendations a try.
Nothing ventured - nothing gained.
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Thanks Margaret for reminding me about this book.
Some time ago I translated the B group(from this book) into Italian for a friend and he has followed it scrupulously.
However, I tried it for for a few weeks(I'm A group) but I just couldn't give up my dairy products(especially milk!) and the cheeses I love most, I wasn't supposed to eat!
I really hope you have better luck
 
sm_counsell said:
Thanks Margaret for reminding me about this book.
Some time ago I translated the B group(from this book) into Italian for a friend and he has followed it scrupulously.
However, I tried it for for a few weeks(I'm A group) but I just couldn't give up my dairy products(especially milk!) and the cheeses I love most, I wasn't supposed to eat!
I really hope you have better luck
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I will be missing chicken & nuts most
....also no distilled spirits:eek: bye bye Jack Daniels
but he does say alter the diet gradually so I will have time to finish the bottle:D
 
Well Bilbo's adventures are finished for the time being & I'm now about to come back to something more modern "The World according to Clarkson" that being Jeremy Clarkson of "Top Gear".
 
The last book was good fun, raised a few chuckles about to start "The World according to Clarkson 2". If it's like the first I'll be enjoying it. thing about them is they're broken down into manageable chunks so if you've got a spare 5 minutes you can read a chapter as & when, without having to try & remember where you left off.
 
Just finished re-reading the Axis of Time trilogy by John Birmingham. Alternate history, but really well done. Just waiting to see if my Dad buys his latest, Without Warning.
That's a subtle hint Dad!
 
setayas said:
Just finished re-reading the Axis of Time trilogy by John Birmingham. Alternate history, but really well done. Just waiting to see if my Dad buys his latest, Without Warning.
That's a subtle hint Dad!
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The words 'Alternate History' grabbed my attention, so I looked for more info.

WW2 may be history to you but it is early life for me ;)

I like to read alternative history but it has to be ancient (nearly like me)
 
Finished Clarkson it was also good I'll be getting some more of his I think, in the meantime I've read "The Cage" (Military Biography)Tom Abraham, English Lad born in Cheshire goes to America as a young man & ends up serving in the 1st Cav in Vietnam 1968 in a Rifle Platoon. It tells of his service, capture, escape & return to civilian life & the effect this had on his life. I found it a good read.

Am about to start "Chickenhawk" (Military Biography) Robert Mason a Warrant Officer pilot flying Hueys in Vietnam 1965-66.
 
"Good to Go" Harry Constance Navy SEAL (U.S.) about his time & ops in Vietnam in the late sixties early seventies.
 
Just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, have now started reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood.....the winner of the Booker prize....i have to say that I am struggling a bit with this one......just can't get into the story.
Loved Birdsong though.
 
Don't know if anyone else has read and enjoyed it, but Will Selfs "book of dave". Got half way through and after two years finaly gave up with the bloody thing.

Don't suppose anybody wants it do they?

Free.
 
is it any good pipples? i tried reading Sharons book a couple of years back but i couldnt get into it
 
Yes, its good but it takes me ages to get into a book because i don`t really like reading...!!! Lol..........:rolleyes:
 
I sleep more than most folk, so dreaming is a large part of my experience.
I thought I ought to know more about dreaming, especially the lucid type, where you can choose what you dream about.

I downloaded this free ebook -
Lucid Dreaming Manual - M Van de Keere

I am about half way through it and am able to recognise that I am dreaming when I am,
but I find that when I tell myself 'this is a dream' - I wake up
...which is not the object of the excercise.

I hope that I will master the lucid technique so will persevere - maybe I will master it when I have read more.
 
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