Currently reading...

Back to the books after a week or two off. I am currently on holidays for two weeks ( the upside of working at a private school) and kicked off my holidays by installing roller blinds onto the exterior of my house (I'm hopeless on ladders); cutting up old timber and trees for dumping; built and organised shelving on my back verandah; watched some old movies and TV series (Sullivan's Travels, The Stuntman and Spatacus - blood and boobs) and have now finally picked up where I left off reading.
I'm about to re-read Tywla Tharp's The Creative Habit - a distillation of her wisdom on the creative process as well as finding time to get back to Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife - homicide, sex and scandal at a private school and a much lighter read than the previous novel I've just finished by Jo Nesbo. I've enjoyed Haddam's previous 20 or so Demarkian novels (I'm trying to be good and read them in their correct order). I've found them to be a reasonable sort of cosy detective novel - similar but superior to the old Agatha Christies I cut my teeth on when I was sixteen and just started to enjoy the process of reading (Thank you Miss Forsyth - my year 11 English teacher!).

Burn brightly, Pete.