Things to absorb your time and your mind when you are not working. If you don't like them, too bad.
Books
Cricketfish recommends:
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
A fascinating autobiographical book about a herion addict who escapes from prison in Australia and ends up as a slum doctor in Mumbai. Winner of the 2005 Cricketfish Book Award.
The Time Traveller's Wife
A quirky tale of the perils of being a time traveller. I was originally put off because it sounds like science fiction. Luckily it is not.
Middlesex
- not the English county but a person who is biologically somewhere between a man and a woman. As much the history of a Greek family and the detroit motor industry as it is about the gender of the protagonist.Mr Nice
The true story of a charismatic pot-smoking oxford graduate from a Welsh mining town who masterminds international drug shipments.The Shadow of the Wind
The Penguin History of New Zealand
A must read for all New Zealanders.
