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... having had a good but very tiring time in Italy. Didn't get to a post office, but postcards will get posted eventually from the UK!
I read Robert McCrumb's biography of PG Wodehouse, which was good, Natasha Solomon's Mr Rosenblum's List, about a hapless but determined Jewish refugee trying to build a golf course in Devon (better than it sounds, but the author overdid the 'quirky Jewishness' a bit and the 'quirky Devonian yokels' a lot) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which... can I have that bit of my life back? I'd can think of many things I'd rather have done with it.* I really do not care about Mikael sodding Blomkvist, his alleged magnetic attractiveness to women, and his confused sex-life**, or his alleged world-class journalism, which is better than any journalism anywhere in Sweden, and don't you forget it, buddy, or his solipsism.*** (On an unrelated topic, you ought to be careful with this book if you have triggers relating to sexual assault and violence. There are some very nasty bits in it indeed).
Although I admit I am partly annoyed with it because ( cut for plot spoilers )
You lot have all been posting busily, so: if you've posted anything you'd think I'd want to see (be that personal news or fic/ fic recs), could you point me at it?
* Incidentally who on earth said it was well-written and translated? It reads like a less idiomatic Dan Brown. (Of course, the translator may have been entirely accurate).
** Not being in an open relationship, I can't really comment on it, but this aspect of the book really did strike me as just a massive male fantasy.
*** Actually, forget Dan Brown. It's more like Left Behind, only with sex, swearing, and worryingly lovingly detailed sexual assault.
I read Robert McCrumb's biography of PG Wodehouse, which was good, Natasha Solomon's Mr Rosenblum's List, about a hapless but determined Jewish refugee trying to build a golf course in Devon (better than it sounds, but the author overdid the 'quirky Jewishness' a bit and the 'quirky Devonian yokels' a lot) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which... can I have that bit of my life back? I'd can think of many things I'd rather have done with it.* I really do not care about Mikael sodding Blomkvist, his alleged magnetic attractiveness to women, and his confused sex-life**, or his alleged world-class journalism, which is better than any journalism anywhere in Sweden, and don't you forget it, buddy, or his solipsism.*** (On an unrelated topic, you ought to be careful with this book if you have triggers relating to sexual assault and violence. There are some very nasty bits in it indeed).
Although I admit I am partly annoyed with it because ( cut for plot spoilers )
You lot have all been posting busily, so: if you've posted anything you'd think I'd want to see (be that personal news or fic/ fic recs), could you point me at it?
* Incidentally who on earth said it was well-written and translated? It reads like a less idiomatic Dan Brown. (Of course, the translator may have been entirely accurate).
** Not being in an open relationship, I can't really comment on it, but this aspect of the book really did strike me as just a massive male fantasy.
*** Actually, forget Dan Brown. It's more like Left Behind, only with sex, swearing, and worryingly lovingly detailed sexual assault.