Ah January, season of nicotine replacement ads and keep fit video releases. But hark! the seasonal sound of the approaching book post on 2008:

( Reading stats that other people are seriously unlikely to be interested in )

I have only ever read one other Margery Allingham novel to the best of my knowledge. Black Plumes was not a Campion book and the prose was so purple in places that I was turned off in the most part. I bought Tiger in the Smoke at the Parish fete because there it was in a penguin mystery green cover. I love penguin mystery green covers ( Read more... )

Thoughts:
I want the whole thing to be 'An Orison of Sonmi' and 'Sloosha's Crossin an Everything After'

and

Can his editor be assigned to Neal Stephenson please? Actually can any editor be assigned to Neal Stephenson?

I'm not finished yet so don't spoiler anything for me in comments if you've read it. I like it and I'll read more.

This week I've finished Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Gothic Tales' and Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty' both rollicking good reads in their way although the former took me ages and ages to read and the latter I zipped through ( Read more... )