On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming (259pp) So I finally realised why I'm picking up these Bond books. It isn't for the stories. It's for the chase scenes. Fleming does good chase scenes. It meads of course that one must read the story to get to the chase but.....If I do not run across the word "dope" again I will not be sad. It must have been out of date even in the original era yes?
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Watership Down, Richard Adams (479pp) What a delightful way to spend ones' weekend: reading the adventures of a migrating group of rabbits. There is somethng so special about having a warm kitty in one's lap while reading, "Can you run? I think not." It also makes me sad that I have no way of viewing the animated version by Don Bluth.
This is going into my stack of two books available to reread at any time (the other being
Sunshine).
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M is for Magic, Neil Gaiman A new short story collection based on the premise of Ray Bradbury's
R is for Rocket and
S is for Space. How do I know? 'Cause Neil says so! This means that there are only two new stories in the collection (to me) but it does have
Chivalry and
the Price; and it makes me impatient for
The Graveyard Book.I haven't picked up a copy of
Interworld yet. Should I?
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Currently reading
Last Tales by Isaak Dinesen.*****CV