For the first time since we had wireless installed, I am home alone. Home alone with my newish laptop on my lap in bed. An ideal time to blog away for hours. Except my mind is a total blank. I could bore you with the market, which today was very average in terms of take. Dull. Not that I want to change the tone of this blog and suddenly make it interesting. Anyway, your views please, instead.
I have just started the novel: a short history of tractors in the Ukraine. It seems to me that in the first five pages it is dreadful and of no merit. So, should I persevere, or cast it aside? Is it the tripe the first five pages would have me believe?
If the consensus is thus, I will pick it up and try again. If not, it will remain closed and end up in the Sue Ryder shop.
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The Ukranian tractor book is sitting on my shelves. I started it and got a little further than you, but could find little merit in it, so gave it up for something else. It sits on the shelf at present, in case I lose my marbles one day. Otherwise, chairty shop.
it's crap
sorry
I didn't get much further than making that decision and deciding not to persue it any further
currently I'm rereading Still Life With Woodpecker (fab)(if a bit teenage) and Martin Redhill by Michael Sloane; or maybe it's Michael Redhill by Martin Sloane
or the other way around
whatever
enjoy your free time
I am! (bit lonely tho. . .)
i just finished Human Traces by Sebastian Foulks. Hard work, but it made an impression. I think the tractors will probably rust away to nothing.
It's hard choosing books.
ooh
I started reading A Fool's Alphabet
started being the operative word - it was a little hard work. . .
(my favourite book of the last year was a love story set in India)
I quite liked it actually but then I've got out of the habit of reading for a number of years so my ability to sort out crap from good may be questionable.
Well I just read the blurb in Smiths and decided I wasn't going to be highbrow enough for it.
But then I'm given to giggling out loud over the titles of all Robert Rankin's books (though I couldn't be bothered to read any of them) so my opinion isn't to be taken seriously.
Mig Bardsley, it is NOT highbrow - it can't be, I read it.
my boys love Robert Rankin
Thurs I didn't mean it was crap, I should have written that I didn't like it
:-)
I only did this cos the word ver was "one swallow doesn't make a summer"
busy? wanna come to a party? would be nice to see you, even if it's only for a quick "hi"
:-)
It goes to the charity shop. The book that is. I read the new Michael Connolly instead, which was a good yarn but written as if by a teenager, and am just embarking on the newish Sarah Waters. Concentration poor at the moment though. S'not fair on Ms Waters.
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