Some Books

Last night I was listening to an episode of a radio show called Fear on Four. The episode was "The Judge's House", based on a short story by Dracula author Bram Stoker. The story involves a student who rents a house which a couple of hudred years ago had been owned by a sadistic judge. He soon finds out that the house contains far worse things than rats. Horror can work really well on radio, I think, and this was a pretty effective story.

Today I had planned to go up to the cinema to see the film Grindhouse, but the only screening was completely sold out and so I went and had a look at the shops instead. I bought some books in a three for two offer: Darkmans by Nicola Barker (which is the next choice for the book group at the end of May), The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Afterwards I went and had a mocha coffee and a chocolate muffin.

This evening I was watching The Galaxy British Book Awards. It was pretty interesting. JK Rowling got a special achievement award.