Book therapy
Posted by:
Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 28, 2003 10:11PM
I've had a stressful week, what with one thing and another. Much as I love my job, the complex reprogramming needed on the website has meant Dave R has been here consistently late in the evenings (not getting at you, DR, I know it's not your fault), so I haven't had enough sleep and this is never a good start. Then there was the delightful firm of gardeners who, not content with botching up my garden three years ago, have decided to try to get me blamed for the accident they caused some poor woman by their negligence; fortunately the true culprit has now been well and truly identified, but I'm breathing fire at them for obvious reasons. Finally, just to put the lid on it, Minsky brought a live toad in last night, apparently to demonstrate how macho he is... as if I didn't know!
So when I went into Waterstone's today to cancel my order for WOLP on the grounds that I'd be buying my copy in Leeds, the inevitable happened, and this is what I've got:
1. The new Harry Potter.
2. Those previous Harry Potter books not already in my collection.
3. "Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow", as recommended by Miss Print.
4. "The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker.
5. "Schroedinger's Kittens" by John Gribbin.
6. "Great Expectations" (about time I had a copy of my own!)
7. "The Woman in White" (ditto)
8. "Wee Free Men" (can I wait for the paperback? Noooooooooo...)
I never have any reading time during the week, but just knowing I've got that little lot makes me feel so much better! :-)
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah