I’m reading Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage. Last year I saw a stage play inspired by this book at the Bridge Theatre in London. Excellent production with great lighting and the dæmons were all performed as puppets which was excellent.
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Oh I saw that last year too @cat.tails. It was a good adaptation of the book I thought. I’m a big fan of the His Dark Materials trilogy (which I also saw at the theatre when it was adapted into two plays, approx 20 years ago).
If you didnt know, they filmed La Belle Sauvage and it’s available from the National Theatre At Home:
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@Ketch
I’m reading The Subtle Knife and The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage at the moment (yes, both at the same time!). Mainly because I own a copy of both those books but I borrowed The Book of Dust - The Secret Commonwealth from the library so I’m trying to finish the 2 Book of Dust books before I leave this cat sit next week, then I can return to the HDM trilogy 
I really enjoyed the BBC series of HDM - great cast. I thought that Ruth Wilson was excellent, ditto the actors who played Lyra and Will. And I fell in love with Pantalaimon! I love him so much!
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@cat.tails I can see why…
Pantalaimon is so sweet! 
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I just finished “Walking with Peety” by Eric O’Grey.
It’s about a very overweight man who got a dog (also overweight at the time) and totally turned his life around, lost lots of weight and became happy again.
Very touching and such a lovely read.
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@andrealovesanimals I am going to check this out, thank you for the recommendation!
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@Carla
Great, I hope you’ll love it as much as I do. Some tissues might come in handy while reading!
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@andrealovesanimals Oh gosh thank you for the heads up! I do tend to get emotional over most animal stories 
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Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough:
How my family created the world’s most dangerous man
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Recently I read True History of the Kelly Gang, a novel by Peter Carey and published in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year.
It is one of the best books I ever read, I really loved it. Also, as an Australian, it gave me a completey different picture of the “notorious” outlaw Ned Kelly, quite different from what I learnt when I was at school.
Glad you are enjoying Borrowbox.
Home and pet sitting listings in the 
Great reading
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Paradise by Hanya Yanigahara - same author as A Little Life (incredible book) but a lot less harrowing and equally big for those lengthy sits 
and Love & Marriage by Monica Ali the author of Brick Lane, an iconic 1990s read - easy, funny, insightful
Both fab in totally different ways!
I recently finished The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan and was really absorbed by it. It had shades of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale crossed with George Orwell’s 1984.
This is on my future reading list, “Sigrid Rides,” by Travis Nelson. Travis and Sigrid, the pair who have been bringing smiles to the streets of London by cycling round and saying hello, or hissing in Sigrid’s case, and spreading joy at a time when everything felt a bit bleak. 
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Looks like someone stole my cat @Samox24 and put her on that book 
cover 
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@Cuttlefish awww too cute! 
Reading The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes. It’s part of the Reese’s Witherspoon’s book club, which I’ve probably have read at least 75% of their recommended books 
One book I highly recommend for travelers (specially foodies) is “World Travel” by Anthony Bourdain. I’ve taken up on a few tips here and the places recommended in this book have not disappointed me.
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