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Archive for February, 2004
moving about
i changed the rules a bit here. these are the counties of the uk that i’ve lived in, not the ones i’ve visited.
the counties i’ve visited would be a nearly all yellow map but i’d have to go and get an atlas and ring my mum and dad to check exactly which bits of scotland and wales i holidayed in as a child. england would be all yellow. i haven’t been to the isle of man, the shetlands or the outer hebrides.
I’ve lived in the counties in yellow. Which counties have you lived in? made by marnanel |
Watching Out by Ann Granger
Oooops, I forgot to fill any comments in for this book and now I've forgotten everything. It was more good stuff from Fran Varady and I hope there is much more to come.
Purchased on 2nd January 2004.
torn
these age maps, spliced together photos of children with their adult selves, manage to be compelling and lovely and spooky all at the same time.
i’m a poet!
it’d be nice if they could spell my name right, i mean i only typed it in for them after all… [they had me down as 'kristy' on the original graphic but the corrected it right off when i emailed them about it, makes a change lately 
] apart from that i’m impressed they picked it. (it was made with my new 2004 magnetic poetry calendar, i already have a fridge coated in words and now i have magnetic words in my office too.)
gaston julia
it’s gaston julia’s 101st birthday and it’s nice to see that google logos run to celebrating mathematicians as well as artists. (it doesn’t hurt that julia sets are dead pretty too.)
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky
VI was the first detective I fell thoroughly in love with almost ten years ago and it's her fault that I've been reading up on every female detective out there and generally haunting the mystery world ever since. So I come at these new books thrilled that they are still going and fearful that they won't live up to that first magic feeling that they induced in me when I read the whole back list back to back and was still hungry for some more.
VI went into exile for a while in the latter half of the nineteen nineties and came back two books ago as a slightly older and wiser version of herself but still throwing herself into scrapes as much if not more than ever. This though was the first book where I've felt that VI has actually slowed down a little and she doesn't have to defeat the criminals by brawn alone. And on the whole I was pretty pleased with this book. I didn't find it as exhilarating as some of the earlier books and I could put it down to go to sleep but I thought that the plot was just as interesting as ever and I didn't have to get too annoyed at VI for trying to be superwoman too often (she is superwoman of course and I like her that way, I just like superwomen who know their limits and run into them sometimes.)
This is very much a story set in the aftermath of September 11th 2001 and deals with a Muslim boy who is suspected of terrorism as well as linking in a plot that goes back to Communist activities in nineteen fifties America and VI has plenty to say on the state of modern America at the moment. I love having VI in the very present day and hope she stays around for a long time yet.
Purchased on 20th January 2004.
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