It's a full life, if a trifle banal

I picked up Blood Feud by Rosemary Sutcliff at the weekend, in the Old Children's Bookshop in Edinburgh, on the excellent advice of katlinel. I read it on the train home, and I think that it may possibly be just a tiny bit slashy...?

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:

( Home by Brendan Kennelly )