Bits and Bobs
I’m not very good at waiting and patience is never something I’m good at. So I’m wondering how long do you wait before assuming that you’re never going to get a response to that email you’ve sent? I waited a week then sent a follow-up and still nothing. It’s just very disappointing to think that someone has just deleted you or ignored you completely. Then on the other hand you have lovely people that respond excellently, which kind of makes up for it. Anyway I think that’s going to burn away for quite a while.
Susan Hill is back on the blog and talking about the new Vintage Classics. I choose classics more on the quality of the type usually making sure it’s been redone in a clean print rather than the ones that look like they’ve bled into the page.
I’ve been making embarrassingly slow progress reading From a Buick 8 I will finish but it all seems written in first gear. I’m hoping that there is going to be big lightening show in the end…and don’t spoil it for me ;). I want to finish it so I can read my next non-review copy book. I’m trying to have one review copy and one non-review book on the go at the end same time.
I’m just about to start back on sci-fi with Dreaming the Void. It’s been getting some good reviews and it only 600 pages (gulp)
I had a “bugger it” moment in Borders last week and spent money I really don’t have and bought a copy of The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam (a debut from Long Barn Books), Odd Thomas, which I’ve constantly failed to get off ReaditSwapit.co.uk, and finally The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, which had an excellent review in Deathray and is another debut.
The lovely people at Ebury Press sent me a copy of the debut novel by Julian Clary, Muder Most Fab. I’m really looking forward to it.
I’m afraid I didn’t get past the first 20 pages of Garden Spells a debut by Sarah Addison Allen. I might have been reading a little too far outside my comfort zone.
Otherwise I’ve been doing a typsetting and cover design job that I’ll probably announce properly when it’s done. I’ve got a blog about that sort of thing that you can find here. If you know anyone in need of that sort of thing be sure to send them my way.
More soon
