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altarielI just wrote a long entry, forgot to copy'n'paste, and LJ munched it.
Short version: brilliant weekend, loads of books bought, countryside nice and want to live in place where it is extremely quiet indeed, email has been fried since yesterday afternoon until this afternoon, got several rather crushing deadlines at end of the month so may well disappear for a couple of weeks or else will be procrastinating wildly and constantly online.
And here's an article by A.S. Byatt about Harry Potter.
Short version: brilliant weekend, loads of books bought, countryside nice and want to live in place where it is extremely quiet indeed, email has been fried since yesterday afternoon until this afternoon, got several rather crushing deadlines at end of the month so may well disappear for a couple of weeks or else will be procrastinating wildly and constantly online.
And here's an article by A.S. Byatt about Harry Potter.
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Date: 2003-07-08 12:17 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear that RL is likely to force you into lurkdom for a bit. But it's better to face up to the nasty deadlines earlier rather than later, at least if you value your emotional equilibrium!
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Date: 2003-07-09 09:10 am (UTC)You'd probably find some of them interesting, if you haven't read them already: Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, about a man returning from the trenches with shellshock and memory loss. How Many Miles to Babylon by Jennifer Johnston, about the effect of the Great War on two Irish boys. And there was a book about Percy Toplis, The Monocled Mutineer. Looks like someone was clearing out the WW1 shelf on their bookcase.
it's better to face up to the nasty deadlines earlier rather than later, at least if you value your emotional equilibrium!
You're right of course! And I was already getting a bit jittery about the deadline convergence!
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Date: 2003-07-09 02:07 pm (UTC)As for my advice - I'm definitely better at giving it than following it myself!
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Date: 2003-07-11 03:22 am (UTC)I particularly recommed The Return of the Soldier (turns out, from buying this copy, that it was made into a film, with Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates, Ian Holm, in the early 80s, so I'll had to track that down). The Jennifer Johnston book I think I read a while ago, but I don't remember much about it.
I bought Prodigal Summer last week, btw - the weather has just got hot again, so I'll finish my current reading group book (Cold Mountain - it's very good), and then turn to the Kingsolver, I reckon.