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Feb. 14th, 2006 07:50 pm
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Good pickings in town today, including one of the Dolphin Rings books by Rosemary Sutcliff that I was missing, The Silver Branch, and the bookshop owner taking pity on me when I came up to the till with a pile and then saw the one I'd gone if for (he knocked 50p off).

Got Brendan Kennelly's Glimpses: very short poems, no more than a few lines, vernacular and sharp and funny:


"No place like home," she said,
     eighty in her rocking chair
"where you can spit in the fire
     saucer your tea
       and call the cat a bastard."

Date: 2006-02-14 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
Hurrah for bookshopping!

Date: 2006-02-14 10:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jomacmouse.livejournal.com
Very yay. Maybe I should go book shopping. I have been paid, after all. (That's yay! too.)

Date: 2006-02-14 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Definitely yay for pay!

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