meme time

( open your MyPictures folder and post the first two pics in it. )

so, to continue the photo theme

When we arrived home on Saturday night (not long before midnight, after a wonderful evening with littleredhead and groundctrl! :)) I found a package from my brother, Hawk.

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As soon as I finished "HMS Surprise" I started reading "Once Upon A Time In The North" by Phillip Pullman, which I borrowed from littleredhead and is about Lee Scoresby when he's 24, and how he met Iorek. :) So far the writing is remarkably flat and clunky - passable, but only just. Like he phoned it in. Which might be why groundctrl's brother didn't like it until he was halfway through it, but then apparently he went back and read it a second time, so it must not be all that bad.

Once Upon A Time In The North, Philip Pullman

40) "One Upon A Time In The North" - Philip Pullman. Although it's bound in it's own cover, this is a novella and I guess therefore technically a short story, but I'll cheat and claim it as a book, even though it took me only a few hours to read. It's a very pretty little book, with nice pictures and interesting bits and pieces to give an impression of a fully created world (including some letters at the end from Lyra when she's at college). The plot is simple and tied up a little patly at the end, and the writing is mostly uninspiring, but the story is fun and Lee Scoresby, Hester and Iorek are characters I couldn't get enough of in the original book, so it was a joy to read.

(Sorry I'm spamming flists, today. It's a huge danger of being home all day. But maybe it's better than making gigantic posts, I don't know.)