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fleaReefer Madness, Eric Schlossberg. An Xmas gift, which was meant for mr. flea. Seems a bit slimmer than FFN; more like magazine articles.
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith. Grandmother sent me this over the summer, and I'm 3 chapters in and stuck. It's charming and evocative and I just can't get my mind over the fact that it's written by a 60 year old Scottish man (who, granted, spent formidable time living in Africa). I am determined to finish it before comparing it fully to books written by actual Africans, but so far not succeeding.
Summer Desserts, Nora Roberts. 1985 Silhouette romance surrently in reissue. Ganked from the free lending collection at work. 20 pages in; for reading when I need to read something rilly rilly mindless. Doesn't hold up well to modern eyes - it's very 1980s and glitz and Captains of Industry and so forth. (Modern Roberts romance heroes being farmers and musicians, not businessmen).
The Control of Nature, John McPhee. Started over the summer. Three essays - loved the first, about the Mississippi; am stuck in the second, about lava in iceland.
Need to finish something - I hate to be in the middle of multiple books. Reefer will go fast, then I must plow on with No. 1 Ladies.
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith. Grandmother sent me this over the summer, and I'm 3 chapters in and stuck. It's charming and evocative and I just can't get my mind over the fact that it's written by a 60 year old Scottish man (who, granted, spent formidable time living in Africa). I am determined to finish it before comparing it fully to books written by actual Africans, but so far not succeeding.
Summer Desserts, Nora Roberts. 1985 Silhouette romance surrently in reissue. Ganked from the free lending collection at work. 20 pages in; for reading when I need to read something rilly rilly mindless. Doesn't hold up well to modern eyes - it's very 1980s and glitz and Captains of Industry and so forth. (Modern Roberts romance heroes being farmers and musicians, not businessmen).
The Control of Nature, John McPhee. Started over the summer. Three essays - loved the first, about the Mississippi; am stuck in the second, about lava in iceland.
Need to finish something - I hate to be in the middle of multiple books. Reefer will go fast, then I must plow on with No. 1 Ladies.
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Date: 2004-01-05 09:34 pm (UTC)> Modern Roberts
I read this as Modern Robots. Which is a whole nother genre of romance.