I must be lucky, 'cause the sky is with me still

[lizblackdog]

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 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.

Comments

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

that's my biggest pet peeve with the area I live in. We have this huge shopping mall (http://www.castlepointshopping.com/) on our doorstep - five minutes' walk from my front door - but no "real" shops whatever. No charity shops, no second-hand bookshops, no independent shops at all. If I want anything like that I need to take a bus into town, and I hardly ever do 'cause I'm a lazy bitch and Castlepoint sells everything I need to live. But I do find it depressing.

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

Yeah, malls are good if you want something specific and want to get in and out fast.

They do, however, really suck if you want to browse around and find cool stores.

As for the music meme... *cough*. I'd totally forgotten about it... lol.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

DO EEET!!! I got lots of them right!