Although I still haven’t finished Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I’ve been reading a few other “worthy tomes”

• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
• The Da Vinci Code by yer man (I was on holidays but still I felt manipulated and cheap – damn that creative writing teacher!)
• The Teenage Dirt Bag Years by Ross O’Carroll Kelly (I read this on the plane home from the Alps surrounded by UCD students – hilarious! Sorry neither the plane nor the Alps were surrounded by UCD students, I was.)
• The Two and Half Pillars of Wisdom by Alexander McCaul Smith
• Dress you Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Thanks DG! It was great!)
• The Easy Garden by Joanna Smith
• The Handy Gardener
• And I am currently reading The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson(Buíochas le BMacC dó.)