I finally got around to reading The Casual Vacancy. DAMN. It's not going to be a book everyone likes, and I can see a multitude of reasons why not, and I went into it fully expecting to dislike it and be disappointed, but ... I enjoyed it tremendously. There's not a lot of plot to speak of, perhaps, but what a brilliant, brilliant study of people ( Read more... )

I'm now on holiday. Well, officially I'm on holiday as of the coming Monday, which might explain why I still have some 1500 words of work to do today or tomorrow. But that should be manageable. And then there will be three glorious weeks of no work ( Read more... )

I have SO much catching up to do... any replies, comments etc will have to wait until I'm back properly ( Read more... )