I read eleven books on my recent holiday and four volumes of manga, but due to the harsh strictures of baggage restrictions on domestic flights I was forced to leave some of these behind, which makes logging them a bit more difficult. Actually, the main problem with my luggage allowance was manga - I took 20kg up with me, of which probably two- ( Read more... )

The librarian did look at me a bit oddly with this lot (I also stuck in Diana Wynne Jones’ The Homeward Bounders as a more cheerful re-read, but didn’t get around to it). I have written three thousand words of essay about all of this, so this will be significantly shorter. Hopefully.

( Williams, P., & Wallace, D. Unit 731: The Japanese Army's secret of secrets. )

I am now much less stressed. Sure, I have no internet (currently compromising my principles in Starbucks) and no car, and there's a hold-up with one piece of paper that means I may not be able to start work next Tuesday as planned, but these are minor inconveniences compared with all the active disasters of December. Anyway. This gets me almost up ( Read more... )