Daily Reading (09 May 2015)

[nanila]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[nanila]

Baseline social media (mostly in the middle of the night - there were multiple lengthy baby feeds) plus Guardian articles. Not a lot else since the official start of the day other than the menus at the pub for lunch!

[legionseagle]

Just started Judith Flanders A Murder of Magpies. Shaping up to be splendidly frivolous and light-heartedly snarky murder mystery set in the publishing world:

Miranda [the narrator's assistant] is impressive. She has mastered such essential skills as getting the right address on the right mailing of proofs. (I know, but the last Amanda looked at me like I murdered kittens when I suggested she give it a try.)

[weaverbird]

Twitter, Tumblr, LJ, DW as usual, plus scrolling/skimming about 30 pages of Tastespotting, and finally finishing A Passage to India.

[kerrypolka]

Social media, including DW and LJ which I haven't read in a few weeks as I've been away. Articles online about informational interviews and adjusting career paths. About ten pages of Helen Castor's new book on Joan of Arc. Lots and lots of lefty postmortems on the election.

[ironed_orchid]

I nearly finished the novel I've been reading every night this week, but fell asleep right as they were working out whodunnit. (It's Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers, and I've read it before, so I already know the answer, otherwise I would have probably plowed on despite the fact I was so sleepy I kept dropping the book on my face.)

[fred_mouse]

spurred on by the recall notice from workplace library that tells me I have 7 weeks to return six books-I-haven't-started:

I spent a pleasant reading-in-bath session reading chapter 1 [The origins of political ideologies] of "The philosophic roots of modern ideology: Liberalism, Communism, Fascism". I am probably not going to hold more than a tenth of it in my head while I read the next chapter, and I'm probably going to remember even less later, but the bit that sticks was that ideologies don't have to be internally consistent, and that not being so can be seen as an advantage, because then the true believers just need faith, and ad hoc changes don't have to be consistent either.