Feh

[altariel]

I 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.

Comments

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the book suggestions; I haven't read any of those.

As for my advice - I'm definitely better at giving it than following it myself!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of them, either, and I want to read them all. Thank you!

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.