The fruits of procrastination

[altariel]

Chronic faffing actually paid off this morning; if I'd left the house as early as I'd intended, I wouldn't have been in to receive the parcel containing the two new Worlds of Deep Space Nine volumes. Books by post, a happy thing.

Their arrival helped significantly with the pain of having to fork out £39 on a copy of Buchanan and Huczynski's Organizational Behaviour: An Introductory Text. It is, at least, in colour, and contains cartoons, which will hopefully make the imminent teaching and learning experience a little happier all round. Ooh, and apparently there's a website for the book too. Gosh, it's like living in the future.

I had some book tokens left over from my birthday, and exchanged these at the Haunted Bookshop for Merry Again by Clare Mallory, and Denehurst Secret Service by Gwendoline Courtney. The latter I'm particularly looking forward to; I hugely enjoyed, by the same author, A Coronet for Cathie (1950s version of The Princess Diaries), and also it promises to combine two of my favourite genres: "Set during World War 2, it is not only a school story, but also a most exciting spy story as well." Bit like Tinker, Tailor..., then.

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[chazzbanner.livejournal.com]

Merry Again

How did I miss that this came out? I just finished Merry Begins and liked it a lot.

bounces off to GGBP site

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's only just come out (past couple of weeks). I liked Merry Begins a great deal too.

[avon7.livejournal.com]

I've had Merry Begins for years and loved it, but never realised that the author had written any more until GGP brought it out. I got it the other day but am saving it as a treat and have only read the first chapter. Pauline reminds me a lot of Janice in the Marlow books and I really like her.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I like Pauline a great deal. She has a wonderful scene with the headmistress at the start of Merry Begins that also makes me think Clare Mallory must have been a terrific teacher and mentor herself.

[chazzbanner.livejournal.com]

altariel1, I just posted four quotations from old British (or half-British) miniseries. You might... note something... familiar. :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've been tearing my hair out trying to recognize them (I really suck at this game!), and with that clue, I'm going to guess that ""Have you ever been to Poznan?" is from Tinker, Tailor.

[chazzbanner.livejournal.com]

:-) Yes it's Roy (I think that's his name) to George Smiley, about the places he's been posted, in a career he's not too pleased with. I don't know why I remember this one!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I remember it now - is it while they're walking around Primrose Hill?

[chazzbanner.livejournal.com]

That's it.

The others are *Poldark*, Clive Francis as Francis Poldark (Francis' death devastated me), Donal McCann as Phineas Finn in *The Pallsiers* (to Madame Merle). amd David Warner as Pomponius Falco in *Masada.* This one isn't British, but the Romans were all played by British actors and had the best lines! In this quote he was referring to his secretary, played by Christopher Biggins.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

To my shame, I have never seen either Poldark or The Pallisers - and I call myself a fan of British telly.

[dolamrothdame.livejournal.com]

Gracious! I've seen Poldark! And I'm not conversant with British television. A long time ago, I fear, and was just wondering the other day if they'd ever put it on tape or DVD. I remember Masada as being very good as well.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Poldark seems to be out on DVD in our part of the world, but not across the Pond (unless you have a multi-region DVD player...?). I am starting to have vague recollections of Masada now, of afternoons spent watching mini-series rather than revising for my exams...

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Cartoons? Young people these days don't know how lucky they are ...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Luxury!

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

>Denehurst Secret Service by Gwendoline Courtney<

Those names alone are making me very happy. I must find this book!

(will now go around muttering "Gwendoline Counrteny" to self all day)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it great? :-D If you have a poke around the Girls Gone By site (the people who are reprinting it), I think you'll find many other things to keep you happy.

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

That made me remember something I meant to ask:

Some time ago, you had made a LJ poll to help you decide what novel to write. If I recall correctly, one of the options was a novel set during WWII (and I think I might have voted for that). What did you decide at the end, and have you started writing it?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about that too. Last year ended up so packed that I just didn't have time to start writing anything other than TBT and the DS9 book, but I've been collecting source material for that book (it's set just after WWII, round about 1948, I think). I'd like to start work on it some time next year, although a couple of other projects have been distracting my attention recently... Thanks for asking about it!

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

I asked because I'm looking forward to it! ^_^

What's "TBT"?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

TBT = "The Bloody Thesis".