Bodies in the Bookshop

[tamaranth]

Last Thurs, to Heffers with anef for their Bodies in the Bookshop event in which a plethora of crime writers lurk near their books and leap out to sell them to you. (Some more fervently than others.) I was mainly there for Laurie R. King, though also got to say hello to Alison Bruce, whose Cambridge Blue I read recently(ish). Ms Bruce's next novel -- out now, I'd have bought it if it'd been paperback -- is set in and around Mill Rd Cemetery, which she reports is guitar-shaped when seen from above.

I squeed at Ms King (whom I was unsurprised to discover is tall): anef helped with grown-up questions. LRK hates driving in Cambridge; is working on next Mary Russell novel, which is Pirates of Penzance territory; thought Robert Downey Jr very decorative in the recent Sherlock Holmes movie, and Jude Law surprisingly good as Dr Watson, but wasn't impressed with criminalisation of Irene Adler.

Anyway, we came away with a few books, including free ones. It was just like a convention, only smaller and with nicer wine.

In other news: too damned hot; more blood tests Thurs; still meepish post-juring; technology pretty much working though did not back up Palm properly pre-crash; have this morning been patronised by a 'Jobseeker's Session', where a nice DSS lady read out a Powerpoint presentation on the bleedin' obvious how to find a job. Personally I thought I'd look down the back of the sofa. Or possibly under the cat.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

All wisdom is under the cat.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

It is sort-of-guitar shaped (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mill+road+cambridge+uk&sll=44.581334,-116.651222&sspn=0.043955,0.077162&g=mill+road+cambridge&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mill+Rd,+Cambridge,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.203103,0.138102&spn=0.004728,0.009645&t=h&z=17£).

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

There is the Moffat/Gattiss Sherlock starting this weekend, which looks fun and pretty, but may be as pointless as say Merlin was.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Ooh, is it that soon?

As its Moffat/Gattiss I'm hoping for something considerably better than 'Merlin'...

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I was not happy with Merlin being a kid, I'm not happy with Holmes being set in the twenty-first century. I don't mind gay Holmes, addict Holmes, stupid Holmes, vampire Holmes, Jack the Ripper Holmes, but change the period and I think you ought to get your own detective and sidekick. Even if "I perceive you have been in Afghanistan" can still be used (and I wonder if the wound will be in the leg, shoulder or both).

Martin Freeman looks like he's Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberband looks barely out of nappies...