Daily Reading (3rd August)

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from the user's manual to the back of the cereal box!

Comments

[chickenfeet]

I've just started on Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. He's a sort of updated Simon Raven. He writes very well and very funnily about absolutely appalling rich people.

[ironed_orchid]

That sounds like fun.

[nanila]

Spreadsheets. So many spreadsheets. Also, Dreamwidth.

[ironed_orchid]

Why even are spreadsheets

[nanila]

I don't knoooooow; they multiplied in the night and now there are mooooore

[katherine]

A romance by an author I've enjoyed in the past but this one is more ensemble than I prefer.

[ironed_orchid]

Hope it's enjoyable enough to keep going.

[ironed_orchid]

Work emails, some Dreamwidth, so much twitter.

[nanila]

Why are work e-mails

[fred_mouse]

I made the mistake of picking up T Kingfisher's "The Seventh Bride" just before bed with the idea of reading a chapter. Had to stop (most of the way through) just before midnight, but so far I'm loving it, and the rather pointed commentary it makes about how choices aren't when there is a significant power differential ("Peasants don't say no to lords"). The fairy tale aspect is pretty interesting as well.

[ironed_orchid]

I have made that sort of mistake before.

Book sounds good.

[fred_mouse]

Book was great!

I should know better though. I have boring, can't be bothered to finish books beside the bed for exactly this situation, so that I do only read for the specified half hour. But this had arrived in the mail just that day.....

[nou]

Oh gosh I love the T Kingfisher retellings.

[fred_mouse]

This is the first one I've read -- I have a friend keeps spruiking them to me, but I don't like buying ebooks, so have been waiting for physical copies to be available.

[bonnefois]

Househusband by Ad Hansel
Speed Cleaning by Laura
The Best Laid Plans by Lynn
Sweet Love by Sarah Stromeyer

I forgot to find their last names because they were too complicated to jot down, ha.

[ironed_orchid]

I'm seeing some patterns in these titles.

[bonnefois]

LOL, maybe a little. \

[alexseanchai]

It was still the third when I read Tending the Bull by Sannion. It counts. :)

[ironed_orchid]

It ALL counts!