Monday, March 22nd, 2004

Many of you will know that I haven't been reading many books over the last couple of years: at first I found it uncomfortable, and later I realised that I had fallen out of the habit and that there were compensations.

On Friday, while in Waterstones to buy Tricia Sullivan's Maul, I noticed a new Tanith Lee book -- Piratica -- and could not resist.

On Saturday, ill in bed, I read it: and it is delicious, though I suspect many of the jokes will be wasted on its target 12+ audience. I'll try to keep my review pun-free, as well as spoiler-free, but cannot resist as lead-in the old chestnut -- immortalised in a Led Zep song title -- about the bloke whose wife's on holiday in the Caribbean.

'Jamaica?'

'No, she went of her own accord.' )

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