Monthly Archives: February 2007

Weekend wallow

It was far too hot to do much of anything over the weekend. I spent much of the time lying around looking at pictures of dogs and reading (and sweating). I finished Ngaio Marsh‘s Surfeit of Lampreys and the first of Anthony Burgess’s Malayan Trilogy, Time for a Tiger. (Might review this when I finish [...]

Book Sale

Thanks to Simone for the great tip – the MercyCare Annual Booksale is on this weekend. M and I went along last night and were impressed by the range of books available. FictionMonica Ali, Brick Lane Greg Bear, Eternity Best Science Fiction StoriesPaul Bowles, The Sheltering SkyAlan Dean Foster, Life FormDavid Gemmell, WaylanderEd Greenwood and [...]

Apologies

I must apologise. For the quality of the blogging here lately. It’s been a bit uninspired and repetitive, I think, and I’m sorry. I did think about whether having a blog break would be a good thing, but I found I wanted, needed, the routine of waking up and having this blog to sit with. [...]