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Took Merri to the vet, her skin condition was playing up again. We got the handsome Aussie vet (score), and Merri was at her cutest. She basically snuggled in to my chest shivering, put her two paws on my collarbone, and hid her face in my neck. I did have to bend down a little to accomodate her. Bless her, the vet was like 'poor little munchkin!'. He has no idea what she's like normally. Of course I love her regardless, and she really is just a big baby under that sulky demeanour.
Also I got the best second-hand book haul the other day. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville for £1.50! Everywhere I've seen it, it's been at least 8 or 9 squid, so that was awesome. I also picked up A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch, Cosmopolis by Don Delilo for a pound each. I'm always amazed by how books I want magically seem to turn up in the charity shops in my hometown. And I've been trying to figure out why multiple, almost new copies of the same book appear in more than one charity shop. I think it might be from book clubs. Sounds plausible right?
The best book I found though? A two-books-in-one Nancy Drew Files! II used to read them eons ago. They're scarily similar to SVH only a bit more racy and with added MURDER. And the plot lines are completely ludicrous. They actually make less sense than SVHs and Nancy? Worst. Detective. Ever. And just something of a spoiled rich girl whose a little loose, if you get me.
I just read the first one, where Nancy (who is 18, in the 80s) goes back to highschool to find the culprit of some random thefts. And by random thefts, videos being stolen from the AV club, and random lockers being broken in to. Because that's where the states money should go when a few videos goes missing. On a teenage titian-haired slueth in an oversized sweater and tight jeans. She almost immediately falls for the 'gorgeous' blond football player Dale Grey, (who btw has date rapist written all over him) even though Ned Nickerson is her college boyfriend (they have this on-off thing or something) and we learn in the first chapter that Dale's family lost all their money a few months ago, and yet he drives a new porsche....Put two and two together Nanc, jeez.
So turns out there's this kid called Jake, who is blackmailing three other students, and he has all their incriminating evidence on tape. So you have the sports star who has an injury no-one knows about but needs to play in the big game to get his scholarship- with footage of him bandaging up his ribs. The tries-too-hard-to-be-popular chubby girl; secret shoplifter. The high-acheiving nerd who cheated on his SATS.
And how did Nancy find this tape? By going in to the video room, and picking up a tape called 'I Spy' that was just sitting on the shelf. Yes that's right. Jake meanwhile, has been murdered, pushed down the stairs. So Nancy tries to find out which of the three kids he was blackmailing decided to fight back, while continuing her flirtation with Dale. He actually comes over to see the tape, and they make out for a bit. That is until her friends George and Bess come over and interrupt. Dale makes nice and leaves, only for the girls to then discover that the tape has one last bit of footage right at the end. Dale, taking money from a mystery man!
And who is that mystery man? Well they drive out to the place where he met him and it turns out to be a...USSR compound. That's right. Dale is selling secrets to the Reds!
But he's in high school? Doesn't matter! He has a contact in the US military, and he's the one who killed Jake. There's added gratituitous scenes of Nancy playing along, and going to prom with Dale, and then making out in the back of his car. Then he gets a little violent, and gets rugby tackled by Nick Nickerson. Finally there's this whole thing of how Dale now has to help them capture this Mitch dude, and blah blah, everything turns out alright in the end.
So bad it made my eyes ache.
Also HarPo7 will be delivered tomorrow; Amazon has dispatched it already. It's odd when your attitude to a book is somewere near exhaustion. I just want it all to be over dammit.
Also I got the best second-hand book haul the other day. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville for £1.50! Everywhere I've seen it, it's been at least 8 or 9 squid, so that was awesome. I also picked up A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch, Cosmopolis by Don Delilo for a pound each. I'm always amazed by how books I want magically seem to turn up in the charity shops in my hometown. And I've been trying to figure out why multiple, almost new copies of the same book appear in more than one charity shop. I think it might be from book clubs. Sounds plausible right?
The best book I found though? A two-books-in-one Nancy Drew Files! II used to read them eons ago. They're scarily similar to SVH only a bit more racy and with added MURDER. And the plot lines are completely ludicrous. They actually make less sense than SVHs and Nancy? Worst. Detective. Ever. And just something of a spoiled rich girl whose a little loose, if you get me.
I just read the first one, where Nancy (who is 18, in the 80s) goes back to highschool to find the culprit of some random thefts. And by random thefts, videos being stolen from the AV club, and random lockers being broken in to. Because that's where the states money should go when a few videos goes missing. On a teenage titian-haired slueth in an oversized sweater and tight jeans. She almost immediately falls for the 'gorgeous' blond football player Dale Grey, (who btw has date rapist written all over him) even though Ned Nickerson is her college boyfriend (they have this on-off thing or something) and we learn in the first chapter that Dale's family lost all their money a few months ago, and yet he drives a new porsche....Put two and two together Nanc, jeez.
So turns out there's this kid called Jake, who is blackmailing three other students, and he has all their incriminating evidence on tape. So you have the sports star who has an injury no-one knows about but needs to play in the big game to get his scholarship- with footage of him bandaging up his ribs. The tries-too-hard-to-be-popular chubby girl; secret shoplifter. The high-acheiving nerd who cheated on his SATS.
And how did Nancy find this tape? By going in to the video room, and picking up a tape called 'I Spy' that was just sitting on the shelf. Yes that's right. Jake meanwhile, has been murdered, pushed down the stairs. So Nancy tries to find out which of the three kids he was blackmailing decided to fight back, while continuing her flirtation with Dale. He actually comes over to see the tape, and they make out for a bit. That is until her friends George and Bess come over and interrupt. Dale makes nice and leaves, only for the girls to then discover that the tape has one last bit of footage right at the end. Dale, taking money from a mystery man!
And who is that mystery man? Well they drive out to the place where he met him and it turns out to be a...USSR compound. That's right. Dale is selling secrets to the Reds!
But he's in high school? Doesn't matter! He has a contact in the US military, and he's the one who killed Jake. There's added gratituitous scenes of Nancy playing along, and going to prom with Dale, and then making out in the back of his car. Then he gets a little violent, and gets rugby tackled by Nick Nickerson. Finally there's this whole thing of how Dale now has to help them capture this Mitch dude, and blah blah, everything turns out alright in the end.
So bad it made my eyes ache.
Also HarPo7 will be delivered tomorrow; Amazon has dispatched it already. It's odd when your attitude to a book is somewere near exhaustion. I just want it all to be over dammit.