As per requests and to help insomniacs everywhere here is the fascinating list of the books I read last year in rough chronological order: (I've *ed the books I particularly enjoyed and + ed the books that I read before i.e. a reread). Being a lazy so and so I'm not going to give the authors except where its absolutely necessary and some of the titles aren't exactly correct (I forgot what the Steve Martin book is called).1. The Kindness of Women 2. The Big Nowhere 3. Crime Always Pays* - Declan Burke 4. Steve Martin on Comedy 5. The Birth of Tragedy 6. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 7. Out of Africa 8. Kenneth Tynan Diaries 9. Matter - Iain Banks 10. The Old Devils * 11. Best American Essays 12. The Sheltering Sky +* 13. The Corrections* 15. Austerlitz 16. Meeting Mrs. Nabokov 17. Flaubert's Parrot 18. 1974* 19. 1977* 20. 1980* 21. Tokyo Year Zero 22. The Damned United 23. Arthur & George 24. Enemies of Promise 25. A History of the World in 10 and a half Chapters 26. Fingersmith* 27. A Users Guide to the Millennium* 28. The Book of Dead Philosophers 29. The Human Factor 30. Tolkien's Gown 31. The Swimmer as Hero* 32. What's it all About? - Julian Baggini 33. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Zafon 34. Dirty Sweet - John McFetridge* 35. Borderlands* - Brian McGilloway 36. Slouching Towards Bethlehem* 37. The White Album 38. After Henry 39. White Tiger *40. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star* 41. In Search of Conrad 42. Hotel du Lac 43. Ali and Nino* 44. The Guards - Ken Bruen+* 45. Master and Commander +* 46 The Long Goodbye +* 47 The Victorians - AN Wilson* 48 The Secret History*
I know there are a couple I've forgotten about (I vaguely recall reading something about a housewife from Australia who has an erotic adventure in North Africa and I read another one by Gavin Young about travelling across America) but this is pretty close. A big suprise was The Sheltering Sky. I'd read it years ago about the time of the disastrous movie version and hated it, but I decided to give it another chance when I found a four buck pbk. It's a truly wonderful novel by a prose genius - definitely worth a read.
62 comments:
You forgot Havoc,in its Third Year.Or did you read it in 2007?
And of course Little House on the Prairie.
Being a lazy so and so I'm not going to give the authors except where its absolutely necessary and some of the titles aren't exactly correct
This is particularly disrespectful for your international audience (i.e.,me)
who may know the books under very different translated titles (The Sheltering Sky=A Tea in the Desert).
Marco
Havoc was 2007, but I did forget Little House which gets a * from me.
Any questions just ask and I'll fill you in.
Marco
Oh yeah and I forgot The Catastrophist - in fact this list isnt very reliable at all.
A Tea in the Desert is a terrible title for that book
A Tea in the Desert is a terrible title for that book
Wait till you see the title for DIWMB...
Of course the choice of the title is never made by the translator.
If a literal translation is impossible or doesn't sound sexy enough,publishers tend to go with titles they think will profit from assonance with others or play into some trend.
I'm sure it's the same everywhere,but Italians and Germans are particularly bad at this.
Any questions just ask and I'll fill you in.
Don't worry,there's always google.
I'm curious about the books you did not like,though.
And I'm trying to picture Tolkien in a gown.
My v-word,Sochi,aims to host the Winter Olympics.
well Flaubert's Parrot was a sorry excuse for a novel, more like notes for a novel that he never quite finished. it actually made me angry. and all his london literary pals praised it to the heavens.
10 and a half chapters wasnt that great either. the first bit about Noah's Ark was good and the stuff about heaven at the end was good but there was a lot of filler too.
Flaubert's Parrot though was definitely the worst "novel" I read last year.
I never read Flaubert's Parrot, but it was all the rage of a certain set I hung out with when it came out. Somewhat typically, I read his first novel instead--Metroland. I liked it without quite getting its references, so was probably a little too baffled to go on to Flaubert's Parrot. I'd still be interested to read his latest, Nothing to Be Frightened Of.
I think I could probably do a whole blog on reading the wrong book in the wrong order at the wrong time in the wrong place. But I'm not going to.
Seanag
Its short but its still not worth it and has a promising premise, just no story. I really liked the first ten pages and took it with me on a flight and then had to alternate between it and the in flight magazine to stave off boredom.
Well, our friend Julian Barnes has written crime novels, too, as Dan Kavanagh.
I'm not sure I could ever entirely trust anyone named Julian.
My v-word has me seeing the writing on the wall: menes
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"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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Peter
He does a good crime novel does Julian Barnes. Arthur & George was a bit slow but on the whole pretty good. I read it at the same time as Fingersmith and it suffered by comparison but actually it was a pretty good book.
And let me say again the Noah's Ark stuff at the beginning of 10 and a half chapters is so funny its almost worth the price of admission alone.
Well, our friend Julian Barnes has written crime novels, too, as Dan Kavanagh.
Someone mentioned it on Ad's Arthur and George post.
Apparently they are sleazy novels about a very promiscuous (male) bisexual detective.
Which sounds interesting.
I'm not sure I could ever entirely trust anyone named Julian.
Sounds a bit unctuous, right?
Julian Banana Slug
Haven't read many of the books on the list,but most aren't asterisked (sic) anyway.
I will surely try David Peace sooner or later,probably starting with GB84(which he modestly said should be required reading in schools) and maybe Fingersmith or something else from Sarah Waters.
Master and Commander-Those books seem so quintessentially English,but evidently they have lots of fans here-bookshops generally have a shelf full of them.I believe all books in the series have been translated,but I never felt inclined to buy one.
v-word:ephyroff
Flaubert is hanging on for dear life to my To Read list, but at this point, it's by his fingernails. I have never heard a good thing about him, despite his being classified as an author one "has" to read.
And another thing...I often tease you saying you don't read enough translations-I've noticed you included Dragon Tattoo and Shadow of the Wind.
I haven't read them yet (overhyped books antagonize me,and I know I'll probably have the chance to catch them second-hand)but I can't help thinking if they are a good introduction to European crime fiction.
I think you'd probably like Izzo's Marseille Trilogy more,for instance.
I've won The Likeness through Dec's blog and I liked it (more than a passing similarity to the Secret History,btw) but I don't feel it's very representative of Irish crime fiction.
Oh,and while I don't really consider it a crime story,Peter has put "Clash of Civilizations" among his best 5-6 books published in 2008,so now it is heartily recommended by three regular followers of this blog.
v-word:sighs
Marco
MY TBR pile is enormous but I'll look for them and read them. I've read Fanny of course and I've spent hundreds of pages in the Chateau d'If but I could with more Marseille. I went there as a kid and liked it enormously.
Fingersmith is a good twisty turny book. A&G good for a journey.
Brian
Flaubert's good and Madame Bovary is essential reading, Flaubert's parrot aint. Instead of Flaubert's Parrrot I'd get 10 and a half chapters from the library and read the first chapter though. Funny funny stuff.
Marco
I do owe own Clash of Civ but its unlikely I'll get to it before February.
Re:Izzo's Marseille Trilogy
They are French noirs-they show the influence of the American school,(especially the pulp authors of the 50s-60s) but with an European angle,problems and setting.
For example,the way Marseille is a character in the books to me is reminiscent of Chester Himes's Harlem.
That's why I think you may enjoy them more than other European crime fiction novels.
Buona Befana a tutti
(Sweets and candies for all good bloggers/posters,coal for the others)
Ciao,
Marco
Yeah, I think Izzo might be up your alley, Adrian. I just finished Chourmo and am headed right on to the final volume Solea, thanks to Marco's earlier recommendation. Fabio Montale is a cop, sort of, although actually he's lived on both sides of the law, which might be something you can relate to. They are not something to read if you want to start the new year with an 'upbeat' sense of humanity, but who does?
Considering that Izzo died in 2000, it's interesting how prescient this latest one seems to be about Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, without at all being anti-Muslim. In fact as a first generation working class Italian living in France, Izzo identifies very strongly with the Arab immigrants' useful but unwanted status there.
Izzo and his protagonist loved Marseille, and he anticipated the French riots of a couple of years back.
I agree that you might like Izzo, though his protagonist, Fabio Montale, probably eats better than Michael Forsythe.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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Guid day, youse all,
So this is where the party's at now! Thanks Seanag for pointing me here.
Books of the year? - hey, I'm still trying to catch up with books written before I was born.
The two modern writers I rate most highly are Adrian McKinty and Ian McEwan. On the latter, 'Atonement', The Cement Garden', 'Saturday', 'Enduring Love' and Amsterdam' are my favourites (now I find myself being pretentious - they're the only ones I've read). They all have clever twists and all are very different and original/'experimental', and I would say the same for Adrian's.
Now, as I was saying at the other party ...
The Railway line from Belfast to Carrick Station runs east along the north of Belfast Lough for about 8/9 miles, and then goes on to Larne. (Context)
After Carrick less (than 1 mile)is the now famous Victoria Housing Estate (disembark at the now infamous Downshire Halt).
The train then steams on past Boney before (not considered worth a 'Halt') for less tha 1/2 a mile to Eden Halt.
Yes Seanag, both Adrian and I lived West of Eden! I went to Eden Primary School, and Eden is the next village after Boneybefore on the road to Larne.
But East of Eden on the McKinty Line is Kilroot Halt (Jonathan Swift), and then Whitehead which is the gateway to Islandmagee, the tribal homeland of the McKinty's. In the Lighthouse Trilogy the young American Boy who comes there not only travels this way, but (poor lad) has to make the journey back each day to attend Carrick Grammar!
So many threads here, help!
Philip
I was joshing with Seanag because over at Peter Rozovsky's blog we've been working on a post thats about 10 down on the page and we're now at well over 200 comments. It all began with Clive James and helicopters...
Nice little tour you've got going there. Of course Eden Primary was the school for the genteel country folk whereas Victoria Primary was the school for the tough kids. Or something like that.
Great part of the world Islandmagee. Full of weirdness even today.
West of Eden, back door to Paradise?
Whats this about Eden Primary being for genteel country kids and Victoria Primary being for the tough guys? Wanna start a gang war between the Boney Boys and the Vickies?
Seriously, the generation gap is showing. When I was at school, Victoria Primary was even built! The only other option was Carrick Central PS, up near Thomas Street in Old Carrick where your mum came from. All that had was DJ McCartney as Headmaster who tried to get everybody into the BB, or a Brass Band, or both.
Whoa, I like this! Schoolyard gang wars being reenacted on blog posts.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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Philip, glad to see you made it here. Keeping up with a number of threads can be a bit overwhelming, but one way to do it is to go to your blogger dashboard and scroll down to 'Reading List' at the bottom, where you can add the Web address of whatever blog you're following just by copying and pasting it in from the web address bar. You won't get new comments that way, but you will get the new posts.
The post that Adrian is referring to is here. It should probably be retitled, "A Short Review with a Very Long Tail". If you want to learn a lot more about the possibility of German operational helicopters in WWII than you or possibly anyone else ever wanted to know, you should check it out. In fact, you will learn many, many things that you might previously have thought irrelevant. The one thing you won't learn much about is Adrian's forthcoming novel, as those happy few who already have the galley have been pressured to keep it pretty much unrevealed by the rest of us.
But for that you might just bop on up to Adrian's latest post--thaqt is, if you haven't done so already.
And though it's already tomorrow in Adrian's country of residence, I will join Marco in wishing Buona Befani a Tutti to everyone as well. Me, I expect the distribution of candy and coal to be about even. Okay, maybe a bit more coal.
Now Philip has put a photo in his profile-when he will learn the secret technique for making hyperlinks* (probably at the first attempt,unlike someone I know) he'll be unstoppable.
In fact, you will learn many, many things that you might previously have thought irrelevant.
And afterwards too.
which is the gateway to Islandmagee, the tribal homeland of the McKinty's.
Why I have visions of a horde of Adrian lookalikes forcing their children to put on scary tribal masks?
but (poor lad) has to make the journey back each day to attend Carrick Grammar!
whereas Victoria Primary was the school for the tough kids.
My grandmother had to walk 15km everyday climbing and redescending a hill to get to her primary school,(plus 15 for the journey back,obviously) waking up in the dead of night in order to arrive punctual at Eight O'Clock in the morning.
Now that's though,you Irish weans.
I wonder if Philip's faith in Adrian as ambassador of Ulster's values and culture will be shaken by the fact that he placed that pinnacle of Irish-Ulster-Scots achievement,a carefully brewed, respectfully tended and lovingly served (by the women of the McKinty clan in the Joymount Arms,no less) Guinness only in third place in his beer top 10?
(first and second place go to the mythical Westvleteren beers,smuggled from a Trappist Abbey in Belgium by Dutch beer-runners)**
*the magic hyperlink formula:
[a href="x"]y[/a]
Inside the quotation marks,instead of x put the web address -in the extended form with http,f.e. http://www.google.com (www.google.com only would be incorrect)
In place of y put the word or sentence you want as text of the hyperlink
Now substitute the open and closed square brackets [ ] with the corresponding < > signs
[ with < and ] with >
and you'll have your hyperlink- be careful,expecially when it's very long,not to inadvertently break it in more than one line.
** I'm a weak man.If rosary-swinging monks start to torture me with their Gregorian chants,I don't think I'll manage to keep Adrian's secret safe.
v-word:rediness
Marco
Did you get and or try the Westie? I still have one left that I'm saving for a special occasion or the end of the world or something. And of course when Belgium dissolves in a dozen countries I'll move to Westyland.
Seanag
There's never too much to know about German helicopters (and gyrocopters dont forget the gyrocopters) of WW2, Alastair Maclean's drunkeness notwithstanding.
Philip
Eden v Victoria Primary, no contest mate. Did you have a P6 teacher who threw chairs at the kids? I thought not. The Central Primary School funnily enough still has the same music playing slightly posher vibe.
When Belgium dissolves ...
I've always likes the sound of "Fleming" and, especially, "Walloon."
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"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
Marco
Did you get and or try the Westie? I still have one left that I'm saving for a special occasion or the end of the world or something.
No,not yet.
It is indeed tempting,but my inner Central Committee for the Revolution strongly opposes buying beers at a minimum of €25/66cl +shipping (recent vintage was already sold out).
Says it would be a betrayal of my proletarian roots in reckless abandon to bourgeois degeneracy.
But I'll do it sooner or later-I'll try to catch the next batch of recent (and less expensive) Wv12.
Marco
What the heck are hyperlinks? I couldn't possibly do those...
But there is something you need to look at if you want to know the secret locations of the Victoria / Boneybefore territorial war.
And Adrian, you mentioned the US Rangers stationed in Carrick during the war? Well, Boney has their museum and the ancestral hole of President Andrew Jackson - one up for Boney in the cultural war!
Did you have a P6 teacher who threw chairs at the kids? I thought not.
This means the kids weren't though enough.
My grandfather once threw a pair of compasses to the teacher.
(though his parents gave him such a beating that he instantly turned into a model student).
Sorry, that should have been Buona Befana. Curse my typing! Now I'm definitely getting coal.
Philip,nice linking! Wasn't quite clear from the site whether Jackson himself had ever returned to the ancestral home. Jackson is quite the big deal in the U.S. book biz right now, as his bio American Lion by John Meacham has been on the Independent bookseller's top ten list for weeks. Although Jackson has a pretty controversial record, to put it mildly.
There's never too much to know about German helicopters (and gyrocopters dont forget the gyrocopters) of WW2, Alastair Maclean's drunkeness notwithstanding.
No, how could I ever forget the gyrocopters? They haunt my dreams.
'Never too much to know' can be read in quite an opposite way from that which I assume you intended--though a way that Peter Temple might well approve.
I had a look also at the views from Carrickfergus castle and the Blackhead Lightkeepers' Houses.
Very nice.
v-word:rediness
Man, talk about self-referential.
Marco
Better stay away from the Westies. Its a slippery slope, one sip and within a short while you'll be doing PR for the Northern League.
Marco
oh yeah and those cottages are right next door to my sister's house.
Seanag
No I meant no ambiguity. Everyone MUST know and learn about the history of helicopters. If Clive James has taught us anything its that lack of helicopter information can be devastating for one's credibility and standing in society.
Phil
You know there's a rumor that President Jackson was actually born in Carrickfergus and hushed this up otherwise he would have constitutionally barred from becoming president because he wasnt a "natural born" citizen.
" Everyone MUST know and learn about the history of helicopters. "
Sounds like a good prescription for the ideal society. Actually, it sounds like something Kim Il-Sung might have said.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
Adrian--
I know you meant no ambiguity...
However I do understand that it's my duty as a citizen of the global community to learn all I can about the military aircraft of the world, past present and future. I don't have a clue why, but that's often the case with duty.
Unfortunately, I realized too late to put any of those Jane's books on my Christmas wish list. Damn and blast.
v word=eumoc, and, well, yes--I do.
Remember what the eu- root means in Greek!
I think I'll add a character named Sally Eumoc to my own humble effort.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
Ohh, "damn and blast"! I like that, maybe even better than "hellfire and damnation!" or "stuff and nonsense!"
Hyperlinks, Helicopters, Hellfire and Damnation ... Pinch me, am I dreaming, have I fallen asleep on chapter 5 of 'A Brief History of Time', or maybe, Dead, I might well be!
Time for a bit of honesty on my part - I have not mastered the technology of this blogging stuff on my own, much as I am enjoying Marco's admiration. The answer is on the LHS of the wee photo (or if you prefer, the RHS of the name Carrickfergus). I probably have still to master the etiquette.
On Clive James's frequent solecisms - I would take encouragement from them, and don't go up on any flying machine he has had a hand in! But keep a diary of his mistakes, it could come in handy some day.
Now on my own frequent typos - these are simply due to me trying to act as if I'm as young as y'all, and not wearing my specs when silling at the compuler.
You know there's a rumor that President Jackson was actually born in Carrickfergus and hushed this up otherwise he would have constitutionally barred from becoming president because he wasnt a "natural born" citizen.
Yes, Adrian, we were told that as kids, and everything in between - like he was born on board the ship and smuggled ashore, or (at least) conceived in Boneybefore!
Jackson is quite the big deal in the U.S. book biz right now, as his bio American Lion by John Meacham has been on the Independent bookseller's top ten list for weeks. Although Jackson has a pretty controversial record, to put it mildly.
Don't know much about him - was he "Stonewall" Jackson, or "Old Hickory"? All I know that when his father died, they all got drunk at the funeral and lost the body on the way to the graveyard - or is that a 'Boney' story too? Must get hold of that book.
Adrian mentioned Carrick Central Primary School (at the end of Thomas Street where Adrian's mother is from), and its Brass Band press-ganger of a Headmaster, DJ McCartney. Well, DJ was an OK guy really, and into local history in a big way. Just before he died he published a book on "The Ulster Jacksons", which is the story of the family on this side. It is the standard work, and he asked me to write the introduction. Funnily enough, the Jacksons came to live in Boneybefore from a farm quite close to Magheramourne where Adrian says his father is from (it looks over Larne Lough to Islandmagee).
I have picked up the vibes that he wasn't the most popular President - or at least with some Americans - anything to do with the Civil war or was that much later? I know I took an American to see the homestead of Ulysses S Grant in County Tyrone, and that turned out not to be a good idea.
have I fallen asleep on chapter 5 of 'A Brief History of Time', or maybe, Dead, I might well be!
Before Adrian sends out a hit squad - I did not mean "fallen asleep reading Dead, I May Well Be", but "Am I sleeping, or maybe dead".
Phil
Well he did make it onto the twenty dollar bill so he must have done some good.
In Senator Jim Webb's Born Fighting there's a good bit on AJ
Philip--
Well, hoping to give you some sort of quick answer on Andrew Jackson, I went to Wikipedia, but it seems as though he had such an a busy career that reading the book might serve you better to find a true assessment of him.
However, the biggest controversial point now is his involvement with Indian removal to the Western U.S. About 4000 Cherokees died on "The Trail of Tears" in their forced removal west, though it was actually Jackson's successor Martin Van Buren who enforced this brutal enactment of the law.
Jackson was clearly a larger than life character, and also a product of his times. But my friend in the buying office of the bookstore I work at could hardly contain her rage when she first saw the positive reviews of the book.
my v word is 'unsurist', which we all may end up being in relation to Andrew Jackson after studying his life.
Actually, I'm an unsurist about a lot of things in my life right now.
Thanks, Seanog, Jackson sounds like a comedy character we have on TV called Blackadder whose excuse in life is "I'm a very complicated person. Sometimes I'm nice, but then sometimes (through gritted teeth), I'm nasty".
If there was anything nasty at that time it was the Indiana thing. I was (a long time ago) staying in Boone N.C. for a conference, and then we holidayed in the Smokey Mountains and elsewhere. Visited the Cherokee Museum up there as well as a couple of 'Scotch-Irish' folk parks. They said our kinsmen hit the Appalachians with a gun in one hand and a hatchet in the other - to clear the hills of trees and Indians. All I can say is I was moved most by the story of the Cherokees.
But on Heritage centers, I visited a Cherokee craft shop on the Reservation where some Indians were dressed up in feather headdresses (which they never wore)to have their photographs taken for money - and were selling 'genuine hand-crafted boomerangs'.(Adrian? ... No, that was too long ago.)
'Unsurist'? hey, that's me too ... or maybe not ... I'll have to think about that.
Seanog
Sorry Seana, those damned specs again.
The central premise of East doesnt work for me: the message at the end is "thou mayest" right? Saying that everyone can triumph over sin, i.e. God giving us each a bit of freedom to trump fate;
Adrian, you made this comment on Steinbeck and it has stuck in my mind. Very, very incisive. I remember it jarring with me when I first read EoE, thinking that it was the weakest link in the story's chain, and yet as you say, it was the central premise.
Adam was thrown out of the Eastern Gate of the Garden, and two angels with a flaming sword placed on guard - to make sure the Sons of Adam couldn't get at the Tree of Life - right?. Wasn't it just like a gong-inflated Steinbeck to think he could go up to the guys with the light sabre and talk his way into salvation by debating different interpretations of the auxilliary verb "may" in the KJV.
But if I remember right he kind of chickens out too and doesnt say this with authorial voice but claims it was "a group of Rabbis" or something who figured that out. And like I say where does poor Cathy (is that her name) fit into this picture?
I think I preferred To a God Unknown when he had an interesting animist view of religion.
A..
Philip,
No one here is free from typing errors, specs or not. As Peter Rozovsky has said recently, typos are a sign of immediacy.
I actually kind of like Seanog, though it does sound more like the holiday version of me.
Yeah, we know the dastardly Black Adder here too.
Boomerangs? Oh, my lord.
As the word vericator says, I would like some 'prooffel' of this...
I'm an old sea dog
And I drink seanog
And ...
But more later. A sign of immediacy. a symbol. Therefore it can be faked. Maybe I coudl start a service that will insert errors into writers' work to lend that feeling of immediacy, the way stone-washed jeans fake a worn, lived-in look.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
Seanag
I quite like Seanog too, but in Irish it sort of means 'young John' - or at least 'Sean og' does. What sort of holidays do you go on then?
I love Peter's idea of artificial immediacy. At least then we wouldn't be automatically considered guilty of malaplopisms.
Seanag is your actual name Seana or is that confidential information?
Philip,
Well, young John isn't really going to work for a couple of reasons--I was thinking more of me full of egg nog, which actually didn't happen enough over Christmas to be really accurate.
Working in a bookstore is in many ways like working any other retail over the holidays--i.e., it isn't really a holiday.
Adrian,
Well, whether it's too confidential to say that Seana is my real name kind of depends on what kind of pal you are to Gerard Brennan. Because I kind of pledged over on his post 16 Facts Meme to give some kind of sanctuary to his daughter for her and her first boyfriend down the road in order to avoid paternal homicidal mayhem. (Arwynn, Sophie, feel free to join Mya in the safe house when the time comes)But as he's said, he's been reading a lot of crime fiction and I'm not sure I should give him such a headstart as to reveal my actual name. But yeah, it's Seana. What the hell. The girls aren't anywhere close to being teenagers yet,and I can always change it.
You really had to link to that post,right Seana?
Grrr.
Yeah, I guess I really did. And I even forgot to try the blackmail angle first. I don't suppose it would really work now, would it?
Poor financial planning--the bane of my existence.
Not just yours, I say with a rueful smile.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
“Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home”
http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
Seana, Marco, Peter
I'm reluctant to pub 16 facts over my poached wireless service, but I will at some point.
So if the Old Devils is in the top three,what is the top three?
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