Chemistry

[nineveh_uk]

Scanning the bookshelves in search of something fairly short and fun, I picked up Agent of Change by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Ah! I thought, space opera. Perfect for a couple of days before I go on holiday. I put it in my bag, and opened it on the bus. A paragraph in, and I knew it was going to be a very long bus journey. I kept going for the half-hour, but no good. It was perfectly well-written, but we didn’t gel. (On the plus side, this means that ankaret won’t have to wait years to get it back.)

On getting home, I therefore hunted for something else and came across Janet Neel’s Death among the Dons, recently picked up in a second-hand shop on the advice of antisoppist (at least I think so, that could be wishful thinking and a bid for theft). I wasn’t sure I wanted to read a detective novel, so I had a quick look at the first couple of chapters. I was hooked within a paragraph. Reader, we were made for one another.

On another note entirely...

Oxfordshire speed cameras switched off: Oxfordshire motorists speed. My colleague who drives into Oxford says it’s a nightmare – a big increase not only in speed, but in drivers aggressively tail-gating to bully people observing the speed limit into going faster.

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Agent of Change well enough (and is that Lyta Alexander a.k.a. Pat Tallman on the front cover?) to buy several more in the series, but it quickly deteriorated into telepath fantasy, a genre I deplore.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

is that Lyta Alexander a.k.a. Pat Tallman on the front

Oh that's who it is! I knew she reminded me of someone.