Weekend

[altariel]

The friends planning to visit us had to cancel at the last minute, which left us with a clean house and an unanticipated empty evening. We used it semi-profitably watching The Bourne Identity and then the end of the Sly remake of Get Carter which ends with Sly killing Michael Caine, saying a fond farewell to the daughter, and driving off into the sunset. Abominably wrong.

In town on Saturday I had book binged, picking up (on 3 for 2) Life of Pi (my reading group's next choice; anticipating ambivalently), The Lovely Bones (recced by kathyh; anticipating greatly), and Eats, Shoots and Leaves (quick read, enjoyable enough). Also Le Guin's new book about planes, and Guy Kay's Sailing to Sarantium. Welcome to the pile. At the moment I'm reading a bunch of crime books by David Peace, set in Yorkshire during the 1970s - pretty bloody brutal and depressing, to be honest; Get Carter is invoked in one of the reviews on the blurb.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

Guy Kay's Sailing to Sarantium.

That gets a recommendation as well.

Do you know if the follow-up is out in ordinary paperback yet? It's on Amazon, but wasn't in Borders, and I don't want to have the trade paperback annoyance again.

[kathyh]

Do you know if the follow-up is out in ordinary paperback yet?

Yup. "Lord of Emperors" has been out in ordinary paperback a while, which is probably why Borders hasn't got it any longer. A new book of his has just come out in America but I don't think it's been published here yet. I'm going to have to resist the trade paperback (hate the things) over that one!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you - sounds like I need to have a poke around some of the other bookshops. Or FP. Or it's an excuse for an Amazon binge ;-)

[kathyh]

Have fun *g*.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

My New Year's Resolution was that I wouldn't buy any new books until I'd made substantial inroads into my current unread piles. Huh.

[kathyh]

Been there, done that, also failed completely *g*. I managed not to buy a book for four months once, but it was completely counter-productive because when I did allow myself to buy one again it somehow turned from one to ten, and the TBR pile was back to its original height again. All my suffering and dedicated walking past bookshops was for nothing!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

More proof that moderation is best in all things.