Perfect holiday reading. I find Binchy's plots all a bit obvious in the end but I love the way she tells stories. Little bits of stories coming in all over the place and adding up to a very pleasant whole.
Borrowed.
5 copies of this book are available on BookMooch.
just before dashing off on another holiday (it’s a hard life i know) and taking another stack of photos here are the last of the photos from my last holiday: one lot mostly around carrick castle and the other lot mostly around hill house which is the house designed by charles rennie mackintosh for the publisher walter blackie and his family. unfortunately the national trust for scotland don’t let you take pics inside the house. the inside is a lot nicer than the outside too.
Once you buy your RFID-tagged jeans at The Gap with RFID-tagged money, walk out of the store wearing RFID-tagged shoes, and get into your car with its RFID-tagged tires, you could be tracked anywhere you travel.
rfid (radio frequency identification) tags look like they could be the successor to the barcode. an article in the register (lots of links but so far the ones i’ve followed haven’t really been very enlightening) shows up the good and the bad sides of a tag that can potentially track items for ever and points out that the fact that wal mart is backing the technology makes it likely to succeed.
reading the article makes me feel like i’ve lived into john christopher’s world of tripods after all. the spine chilling isn’t abated by thinking that i’ll never have to unload my shopping onto a checkout conveyor belt again either. my head is all a-spin with scenarios that i wouldn’t have minded staying in the realms of fiction.
I think I've overdosed on these books; knowingly overdosed but I can't stop myself until I run out of them. This is the latest in the series and harks back to Nell's college days before she got involved in the suffragette movement and it fills in details of her childhood and how she became the woman she did. Pretty good but I got rather lost in the plot at the end and although I enjoyed reading it as always I think I've just read too many of the same series in too short a time span.
I think I have only one book left to read in the series and I probably won't be able to stop myself from reading it if I see it at the library.
Purchased on 28th May 2003.
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