I recently bought a set of books by John Stein­beck at a bar­gain price. Stein­beck is an author I’ve never actu­ally read, but feel that I should have.
I star­ted with Tor­tilla Flat which is the earli­est one in the col­lec­tion. I must say I thor­oughly enjoyed it. It was very funny in parts, and a little bit sad too. I like the char­ac­ter of Danny, but Pilon is the best for me. Recommended!

I fin­ished Audrey Hep­burn by Barry Paris the other day. I very much enjoyed this book. It did take a long time to read it how­ever. The inform­a­tion in it was quite dense and detailed; There are nearly 400 pages of the main text of the book, along with ref­er­ence notes, a filmo­graphy, list­ings of stage and tele­vi­sion work, two sets of pho­to­graphs and an index.
Mr Paris has cer­tainly done his research. His source notes are split by chapter at the end of the book, and there are often more than 100 sources per chapter lis­ted! He clearly loves his sub­ject, and Audrey is treated with love and respect. Hav­ing said that, it seems she truly was a unique char­ac­ter, much loved and respec­ted by nearly every­one who met her. I knew very little about Audrey Hep­burn before I read this book. I now know her life story, and cer­tainly want to see more of her work. Jan and I watched Break­fast at Tiffany’s over the week­end. We also have My Fair Lady on video, and sev­eral more DVD’s. I will try to watch them over the next few weeks.