Person with Book has writ back, and I get the distinct impression that they are hoping I will offer to read the ms and bring Mi Expertise to bear.
Perish the thort.
I am given to wonder whether I am the only person who has been approached in re this undertaking, and have put out a few feelers to other historians with some connection to the area as ( Read more... )

What I read
I am definitely in a bit of a meh phase via-a-vis reading at the moment, in which I start things and think that perhaps I should not be reading these just now, because I will very likely enjoy them more at some other time.
So what I have been reading - Diane Duane, Young Wizards 30 Day OTP (Days 1-17), picked up as a freebie along with ( Read more... )

I think I have so got into the habit of feeling floppy at this season than even if I am at home and could employ the time more productively, I feel floppy and disinclined to effort.

Well, okay, I have done the necessary seasonal meal-making, and a few small odd-jobs, but not the things I could/should be getting on with, sigh.

Floppp.

This entry was ( Read more... )

Though really, if I do that 'first sentence on page 45 of nearest book is about your sex life for the coming year', this oracle is of a murkiness long associated with oracles. There are four books within hand's reach:
The most elliptical is 'See that word on a menu and you know it won't be' (Jay Rayner, My Dining Hell).
'The taboo is so strong ( Read more... )

Only dipping my toes into FB and Twitter of late. Not sure if this is the reason I do not find so many things that trigger off into DW posts, or whether, no, I'm just in a meh frame of mind.
Or maybe it's just that my attention is Elsewhere (Elsewhen?).
The meh frame of mind theory gets some support from having come across a list of 60 books by ( Read more... )

Well, I made a loaf of khorasan (kamut) flour during the week; and there were Saturday breakfast rolls - the adaptable soft roll recipe, 50/50 wholemeal and white spelt flour.
But today was going to see father in respite care home, which rather militated against culinary efforts.
And I don't have any brilliant ideas for alternative post. This ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my Wednesday reading post that I'm in a reading trough and finding it hard to think what to read next, and I've been picking at various things that are being recommended to be 'because you liked' [Something Else] and downloading previews and feeling very much like the denizens of the 100 Acre Wood trying to find out what Tiggers ( Read more... )

What I read
Drinking Gourd, which was very good - perhaps not quite so dark as the previous in the series, but still pretty bleak. But set when and where these are, not going to be the lightest and cheeriest of reads. However, very, very well done.
Another freebie ebook by a forgotten/neglected early C20th crime writer: Basil Thomson, Richardson's ( Read more... )

What I read
Surprisingly little for some reason: finished Kipling Sahib, which I thought was a pretty good account of the earlier part of Kipling's life and career, was all over the complexity and contradictions, and would recommend even if I think the author is entirely RONG about later Kipling post c. 1900 (WOT).
I then endeavoured to get into ( ( Read more... )

I have two books on order, which I was perhaps optimistically hoping would have arrived by the beginning of this week.
I have finished the books I had on hand that I was reading.
As I am in imminent expectation (perhaps optimistically, q.v.) of a couple of new books that would be at the top of the reading priority list, there is nothing that I ( Read more... )