I have always been an avid reader when as a country person not taking care of animals, or fishing and shooting. Now indoors I am reading the superb historical novel; World without End by Ken Follett. It resonates in certain ways about what is happening now in the world with Covid 19. It is the magnificent sequel to Follett's Pillars of the Earth. If you get a chance I suggest you read one.
Hi Chas, I remember reading Pillars of the Earth in the legion. An excellent book. I then saw someone reading it in French. It looked about two thirds the thickness of the English and original version. The guy who was reading it said it was book two of a two book story.I suppose that is what you get when you try to translate into another language.
As Perun said, they made a series out of it, but it was not the same and you absolutely had to have watched them all in the order to follow what was going on- or have read the book.
Which brings me to my next
amazing piece of news. As we are going to be holed up here for at least the next week, due to songkran we went down to have a look at the second hand book shop. I usually let Erika pick out my books as she knows what I like. The shop is run by Thais so although there is some order, when I say order I mean, the books are more or less in in alphabetical order going by the Authors surname (or Christian name
I kid you not
). However she had to withdraw some money so I said that I would accompany her. Normally there is no risk, but as I have said before, if the Thais don't work, they don't get paid.
First stop was my friendly local 'sell everything' including beer. As I've mentioned, the gov, has brought out a law saying that it is forbidden to sell any alcohol until Camerone (perhaps not exactly those words.) You just have to be
very discreet about it.
So when we went into the book shop, I picked up a book called the return of the dam busters. And then I thought about your recommendation. But for the life of me I couldn't remember who wrote Pillars of the earth. After checking to see if there were any new books by favorite Authors Jeffrey Archer and Robert Harris, I remembered it was good old Kenny, just to prove that I'm not doing a night jumper I've got photo proof;
Er no, that's a picture of Erika's cat.
me with said cat in the kitchen. Check out the hair after a month with no barber.
Please note that in the top left hand corner is another of today's trophies chang beer. Another angle to show the thickness of the book (only a wet ring to show that there was ever a chang there
), which cost me 200 Bahts which is 4 pounds 92 or 5euros 59. I'll get 100 bahts back when I return the book. The other one about the dam busters cost 180 Bahts and the third which is by Chris Ryan (I know, I know) only cost 20 bahts but I cannot take it back.