Archive for July 2004
great great great
due to the lack of finding anything i think will be interesting to anyone else on the web lately i’ll post something interesting to me found on the web lately. this is my great great great grandad’s advert in the 1862 business directory of birmingham.

i found it using historicaldirectories.org which is a) a great resource and b) a candidate for the worst search interface in the history of the web. also i can’t make much sense of the information in the urls so this link may take you to the right page of the original directory or it may not.
Nights in White Satin by Michelle Spring

I'll write this series off as not my kind of thing. Just as when I read the first book in the series I can't quite put my finger on what I didn't enjoy about it. Nothing's really wrong with it it just doesn't make my pulse race or my fingers scrabble to turn the pages over.
Purchased on 23rd July 2001.
in
back well over a week and still not with it.
All things are impermanent. All things are imperfect. All things are incomplete
words to remember quoted by caterina.
Lazybones by Mark Billingham

I found this really hard to get ino, chiefly I think because the main detective Thorne is finding it difficult to motivate himself to find the murderer and this kind of rubbed off on me. (The victims of the murderer are rapists themselves.) Once Thorne got excited about the case I did too. Good ending, I could see it coming for once but that's not bad, just adds to the thrills really.
Purchased on 11th May 2004.











