Books - What are you reading?

My GF was complaining last night that she can't get into any books lately (she's an editor, so reading is a bit of a busman's holiday), so I read her 'The Pit and The Pendulum' by Edgar Allen Poe.

I've got some Poe lined up fro when i've finished with this Dickens. It's taken me an age to get though as I tend to only read on public transport or in the bath. And as I ride nearly everywhere and mostly take showers...

Mr Pickwick is currently in Fleet debtor's prison by by way of protest (refusal to pay damages due on bogus charge of breaking a promise of marriage) and Sam has just got himself deliberately banged up with him to make sure he's okay getting his dad to have him arrested on a manufactured charge of bad debt. I wiped away a tear of pride at this point. Gawd bless that boy!

The whole episode caused me to look up debtors prisons and the Fleet in particular which it turns out was so named as it stood on the bank of the river Fleet that runs from Hampstead Heath down to the Thames. Now covered over the river now pops out under the north end of Blackfriars Bridge... which as it turns out is right outside my window here at work. Awesome.