[meme] World Book Day!
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Happy World Book Day, everyone!
The books I am reading: Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End; The World Without Us (Alan Weisman); Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks)
The book I love most: varies day to day. Very fond of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, Le Guin's Earthsea (original trilogy), Dunnett's Lymond chronicles, Ysabeau Wilce Flora Segunda, Diana Wynne Jones Eight Days of Luke, O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin novels, Julian May's Saga of the Exiles ...
The last book I received as a gift: many books at Christmas, of which I have read few. I have read Soulless (Gail Carriger), a gift from high-heeledfishlifter.
The last book I gave as a gift: in terms of actual buying-to-give, probably The Beekeeper's Apprentice and History Play (Rodney Bolt) and Ink and Steel -- for high-heeledfishlifter at Christmas. I did give bugshaw a few spare / duplicate / stray books during library-whittling ...
The nearest book on my desk: no books, am at Werk. But I do have PDA to hand, and the first book in eReader (alphabetically) is Excession by Iain M Banks.
Reading habits have gone weird lately: I've been busily sorting through, and discarding >50% of, my library, and that plus Paid Employment have left me little time to read -- or to write up the last few books I read, which leaves them feeling unfinished, which means I don't want to start something else ...
So, in the next week or so you might expect writeups of:
Gentlemen of the Road -- MIchael Chabon
Aegypt -- John Crowley
The Poison Throne - Celine Kiernan
The Liar - Stephen Fry
Fast Women - Jennifer Crusie
la_marquise_de_Happy World Book Day, everyone!
The books I am reading: Elly Griffiths, The House at Sea's End; The World Without Us (Alan Weisman); Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks)
The book I love most: varies day to day. Very fond of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, Le Guin's Earthsea (original trilogy), Dunnett's Lymond chronicles, Ysabeau Wilce Flora Segunda, Diana Wynne Jones Eight Days of Luke, O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin novels, Julian May's Saga of the Exiles ...
The last book I received as a gift: many books at Christmas, of which I have read few. I have read Soulless (Gail Carriger), a gift from high-heeled
fishlifter.The last book I gave as a gift: in terms of actual buying-to-give, probably The Beekeeper's Apprentice and History Play (Rodney Bolt) and Ink and Steel -- for high-heeled
fishlifter at Christmas. I did give bugshaw a few spare / duplicate / stray books during library-whittling ...The nearest book on my desk: no books, am at Werk. But I do have PDA to hand, and the first book in eReader (alphabetically) is Excession by Iain M Banks.
Reading habits have gone weird lately: I've been busily sorting through, and discarding >50% of, my library, and that plus Paid Employment have left me little time to read -- or to write up the last few books I read, which leaves them feeling unfinished, which means I don't want to start something else ...
So, in the next week or so you might expect writeups of:
Gentlemen of the Road -- MIchael Chabon
Aegypt -- John Crowley
The Poison Throne - Celine Kiernan
The Liar - Stephen Fry
Fast Women - Jennifer Crusie
