I've just finished Sandi Toksvig's The Chain of Curiosity, a collection of the great Danish wit's columns from the Sunday Telegraph that I got for free with my points from The Book People. I've seen Ms Toksvig on TV here and there and I've always been fond of her acute sense of humour and head for trivia - she's especially good on QI. In fact, there were a couple of things I've read that have appeared on the current series of QI, funnily enough. I enjoyed this collection, and I zipped through it pretty quickly, which I always feel is the mark of a good book (although I'm taking my time with my current fiction choice at the moment, but that's only because The Chain of Curiosity was so moreish). Sandi's columns - all running to 3 easily digestible pages in the book are humours looks at whatever event is happening that day, in history or to the writer. Several times I found myself laughing out loud and then reading passages out to Andrew. As a humourous book, it succeeds, and as a trivia book it's just as good, I'd recommend it to anyone with an appreciation of language and the world around us in general.
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