lies, damned lies and books

[devi]

I've just updated postwodehouse.com, so you can go and read all about my embarrassing incident while staggering to Oxford Circus tube last night, after a lovely evening in the Glassblower celebrating haggisthesecond's new job. I am a terrible liar. I don't think I can bear to go into it here.

I've cancelled the kid who was going "gimme free half hour! gimme! Okay, I'll sulk if you won't!" Suddenly I'm not dreading Wednesdays any more. Should have done that ages ago.

Currently devouring Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. All the reviews when it first came out said it was a sort of cerebral puzzle with no heart. They are so wrong. (Plus the middle of it contains a large chunk of what I can only describe as sci-fi. It gives me hope for my own stuff.)

And I think it's finally spring. I can smell it.

Comments

[mrtreacle.livejournal.com]

I thought I smelt it whilst out running last night.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

It's spring. We had a day where I was warm enough with just a T-shirt under my leather jacket.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

...I've been wearing nothing but skirts and blouses all winter...

Well, excepting that week or so last month when I had to give in and wear a jacket.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

How do you generate that much heat? Are you a mass of incandescent gas?

[ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com]

It must be spring, I've got the window open. Though I am bloody freezing.

[vodka-fairy.livejournal.com]

I just can't get into Cloud Atlas. I'm only on page 58 or something but, even though I'm enjoying it, it's not 'unputdownable' yet. I AM only reading it on the tube though, which is never the best place...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I thought it started a bit slow too. Don't give up.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I have to read Cloud Atlas for work's newly-formed Book Group. Looking forward to it now!

[immoline2.livejournal.com]

the weather change is happening here too...autumn started yesterday.

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

Oh, please, please be right about spring. I know my weather pixie thinks it's already arrived, but hearing that from a human is so much more encouraging...

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I've been Fab lollies all week, though that's becuase they contain lots of sugar and were on BOGOF.

hello!

[parallelgirl.livejournal.com]

I came over here from ultraruby because I liked your 'Mad Sociologist' description, as I am one such myself...And it turns out you're the person whose postal experiment I read about in the Indie a few weeks ago, and that we have Black Books in common, sooo...I've added you.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

How did you manage that while keeping a straight face?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

With *extreme* difficulty. I think I just reacted without thinking about it, then fled down the stairs before the laughter got out.

Poor girl, she did look completely baffled.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

The first two David Mitchell books are very wonderful indeed, and Cloud Atlas is sitting on my shelf all ready to be started.

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

Cloud Atlas took me a while to get through, but I thought it was wonderful. The realisation of six different kinds of worlds, and the thematic links between them, are very good indeed - I particularly liked the world of Sonmi-451, even if it is a bit hackneyed (the same idea was done better by Ira Levin in the fabulous and little-known "This Perfect Day" in the early 70's).

It's definitely worth the effort. I'm hoping the same will be true of my current reading, "The House of Storms" by Ian MacLeod, which is the sequel to "the Light Ages" (which was onwe of the best novels I've ever read)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

No, I wasn't! That's fascinating. And yeah, very sad. I'd help an oobi on its way if I found one.