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bugshaw at 11:32am on 14/05/2006
bugshaw at 11:32am on 14/05/2006Book
I'm back in the reading saddle again (which is a somewhat uncomfortable mental image), starting Christopher Priest's The Separation at long last. I'm struggling a bit to untangle the alternate histories which become apparent very early on (a book of people's experiences on 10 May 1941, the last day of WWII) as I am embarrassingly unfamiliar with the events of that period; my school history teacher must have been delighted to get shot of me when I chose my O' Level subjects of Any Subject You Like As Long As It's Science. Or Language.
The protagonist's (protagonists'?) lives also require unravelling. I read Part I, then Part II (circa 1/3 of the book), then Part III (which was short). Then I reread most of Part II, interspersed with bits of Part III. When I start Part IV (the last half of the book) I will want to take a good 3 hours and some A4 paper for diagrams ;-)
Picnic
This is a picnic meme. There will be an LJ picnic on Jesus Green, Cambridge, UK on Sunday the 14th of May, from around 2pm. We'll meet toward the town end of Jesus Green, by Lower Park Street. Nobody is organising this; it'll just happen. Please turn up, be sensible, bring food and drink, meet new people, have fun.
</picnic meme>
I was looking forward to this, but it's rather grey and damp and I don't know if I can entice![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
major_clanger out of the house what with OU work and everything :-(
But I am stubborn and may well go anyway, bringing a plastic bag to sit on for I am resourceful as well as stubborn.
I'm back in the reading saddle again (which is a somewhat uncomfortable mental image), starting Christopher Priest's The Separation at long last. I'm struggling a bit to untangle the alternate histories which become apparent very early on (a book of people's experiences on 10 May 1941, the last day of WWII) as I am embarrassingly unfamiliar with the events of that period; my school history teacher must have been delighted to get shot of me when I chose my O' Level subjects of Any Subject You Like As Long As It's Science. Or Language.
The protagonist's (protagonists'?) lives also require unravelling. I read Part I, then Part II (circa 1/3 of the book), then Part III (which was short). Then I reread most of Part II, interspersed with bits of Part III. When I start Part IV (the last half of the book) I will want to take a good 3 hours and some A4 paper for diagrams ;-)
Picnic
This is a picnic meme. There will be an LJ picnic on Jesus Green, Cambridge, UK on Sunday the 14th of May, from around 2pm. We'll meet toward the town end of Jesus Green, by Lower Park Street. Nobody is organising this; it'll just happen. Please turn up, be sensible, bring food and drink, meet new people, have fun.
</picnic meme>
I was looking forward to this, but it's rather grey and damp and I don't know if I can entice
major_clanger out of the house what with OU work and everything :-( But I am stubborn and may well go anyway, bringing a plastic bag to sit on for I am resourceful as well as stubborn.
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