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What am I reading at the moment while I try and recover from surgery and avoid climbing steps, lifting weights, riding horses...?

- 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke. This feels very abstract at first, reminded me of some stories by Jorge Luis Borges -that Library of Babel of his- but it does move away from that into what so far (but I'm only 70% into ( Read more... )

Haven't posted much of late as my mind has been preoccupied with the current horror show I'm facing with my health and the hoops I'll have to jump. Funnily, that has made the Shell situation (where a large transnational insists that I'm their gas customer and are trying to charge me some eight thousand pounds as according to them I've never paid - ( Read more... )

It's taken me most of the month to read the first hundred pages of the book set for next month's Bibliogoth. The book in question is 'The Way of All Flesh' by 'Ambrose Perry'. It is failing to get me into that world -I don't think it is badly written but I'm not there with it, alas.

OTOH, I've read the whole Raksura series by 
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Not a lot to relate. Not many adventures. Guitar lessons continue on Zoom and, for the two schools I teach at, on Google Meet. I still have fewer pupils than \normal' but, not having a social life in these times, I'm also spending much less so I'm 'nearly' ok, managing to get my head above the water and gasp and take in air once in a while.

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