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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.
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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
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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.
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Date: 2010-08-12 03:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-12 03:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-12 06:34 pm (UTC)Double-copy can be annoying (though I do own a couple of Gaudy Nights, one to read, one to keep pristine with the set). I need to search my shelves tonight to check before I buy kingdom of the Ice Bear that I definitely don't have it.
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Date: 2010-08-13 11:11 am (UTC)You wouldn't want to see our array of Silmarillions, then ...
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Date: 2010-08-12 04:58 pm (UTC)More importantly Death among the Dons is also mine and you can't keep it because I would miss it greatly. But I'm glad you like it as I love Janet Neel and all her administrative detail but wasn't sure whether that one was too heavy on childcare problems (or maybe you haven't got as far as the wondrously competent Francesca's post-natal misery yet).
Honestly, you go away for a few days, check in with great typing effort on your phone, and people are stealing your library... :-)
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Date: 2010-08-12 06:31 pm (UTC)heroic university administrators
Date: 2010-08-12 10:13 pm (UTC)Sleep when the baby sleeps is useless if your child only sleeps when walked miles across town in a pram - I used to sit on benches and read until she woke up again - or if it is the only time you have 2 free arms to have a shower. And if it's a second or third child, no way.