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lizblackdog ([personal profile] lizblackdog) wrote2008-03-15 09:27 pm
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I must be lucky, 'cause the sky is with me still

The triumph of hope over experience: me, walking into a bookshop simply to savour the mingled scents of new books, thick carpet and coffee, and imagining I could come out without buying a book.

The book was [livejournal.com profile] naominovik's Temeraire, which has been on my "must get round to reading sometime" list for ages. The blurb on the back made it sound like Anne McCaffrey and Patrick O'Brian's love child - and if it had only been that, I still would have had fun reading it. But it was a lot more interesting and original than that, and with much better dragons, and it made me cry twice. It was really bloody good.

I am now deciding if I need groceries more than I need to walk down to Waterstone's and buy the next one tomorrow. I suspect the book will win. I've got enough coffee and pet food to last the fortnight, anyway.

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