Monday, March 29, 2010

This and that

Moving right along, I've just started to read Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards, which I picked up at the advice of an old friend last summer at a jumble sale at St. Mark's summer fete in Newnham. (Again, I was reminded how excellent access to secondhand books was in Cambridge ...) It's a rather bleak biography of a homeless person whose life ends tragically, but not until he'd been able to help facilitate both the release of the wrongfully arrested Cambridge Two in 1999 and the distribution of the "Big Issue" in the city. Another of the many lost souls ...



I've also started reading Jo Nesbø's Nemesis. Detective fiction is absolutely one of my favourite genres, and it's nice to revisit characters one's met in previous books. (Here, it is CRUCIAL to read the books in sequence, if – as I – one is not able to read them consecutively.) I read Nesbo's Redbreast about half a year (and many books) ago, so the synapses are having some difficulty re-establishing connections to the necessary memories of the plot and characters. But, that's part of the fun!




Otherwise, we're gearing up for Easter weekend and SPRING! For the family, this will involve Ukrainian easter egg decorating (with some friends and their children) and a visit to Toronto on Sunday (for both Easter dinner and my brother Bernard's 43rd birthday). Pictures will follow in due course, but for the time being, here are some of Jessie the dog (taken over the past weekend).



Guess who had to bathe her?
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 30, 2010 at 2:23 AM

    I can tell yours will be a great blog to follow, as already I am thinking that I must seek out the Jo Nesbet (? spelling) books for Luke. Will it be easy to find the order to read them in?. Your dog sure looks lovely - but I just hope that she confines her digging to pieces of earth that aren't necessarily your garden!

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  2. MetteMarch 30, 2010 at 4:24 AM

    I so enjoy your input on my reading list, S!

    Hope you all have fun paiting eggs and possibly an Egg Hunt?

    PS: The correct spelling is Jo Nesbø ;-)

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  3. SarahMarch 30, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    Thanks for your feedback ... And, funnily enough, Mette, I realized to my HORROR that I'd misspelled the name last night ... I will correct the spelling shortly ... :o)

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