Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

What did you read this weekend? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it? (Reminder link to intended weekend reading post)

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[nanila]

I've been ill with a cold so didn't crack open any [adult] books. Read the obituary about the founder of Burt's Bees in The Economist, a bit of Twitter, a bit of FB, dabbled about in the latest Nature but nothing stuck. Read recipes for bread and cookies. Read loads of children's books as the weather was foul and the toddler is going through a phase where she's memorising all her favourites and practising reciting them after we read them.

Currently catching up with DW reading page.

[azurelunatic]

Hooray for children's books!

[nanila]

Honestly, they're so great. Why do adult books get so boring, with all the characters being adult humans and doing boring adult human things, like being nasty to one another all the time?

[weaverbird]

Sorry about the cold!

[nanila]

Thanks! Am pushing through today with the aid of Lemsip. And the internets. :D

[azurelunatic]

I have read my reading page, my friends page, the latest installment of seanan_mcguire's Velveteen Vs. saga, some Twitter, a spot of fanfiction, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, some more of the absolutely riveting quips file in work bugzilla, plus a snippet or two of the Wikipedia article on rainbow tables. And I just finished the most recent of the_comfortable_courtesan having caught up on all the back reading -- it is a delightful romp and starts here: http://the-comfortable-courtesan.dreamwidth.org/1214.html

[nanila]

Wow, you are very accomplished in diversity and quantity of reading. *gold star*

I do so love my daily dose of Madame C-. :D

[azurelunatic]

My friend Sunny is of the opinion that nothing would suit Mr. Angel Clare from Tess more than to open a shipping-box to meet an ill-tempered swan. So I had to find out exactly what he had done in order to deserve that. Nothing good, I am afraid. The other chief villain of the piece has some rough justice administered within the text, and is no longer in a condition to open shipping-boxes, otherwise Mr. Alec d'Urberville should have got one as well.

[miss_s_b]

I was rubbish and only just managed my friends page. Still got two Hugo nominated novels to read and am v much running out of time

[nanila]

Managing your friends page is a big task. Well done!

When is the Hugo deadline? I'm not putting myself through any of the puppy stuff, but I do want to remember to vote.

[miss_s_b]

31st of this month.

[weaverbird]

I read about what I expected: Twitter, bedtime reading and not much else.

[nanila]

Huzzah for pleasant, low-pressure reading!