Spare a bullet, senorita

In the spirit of x(random things)=blogpost:

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Sunrise this morning was a pale band of gold along the eastern horizon, shading to purple in the north east above a milk-calm sea. Sometimes I forget the absolute beauty of chill mornings, when the world is still quiet and clean.

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Looking at my bookshelves this evening, it strikes me that (apart from my necessary concentration on the ancient Greeks and Romans), my non-fiction bookshelf, while eclectic, has three distinct groupings: Victorian Britain, Elizabethan Britain, and women in the Resistance in WWII.

There are other topics there as well, of course, but those are the main ones.

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I fear it says something unflattering about me, that I buy books I can't afford and hoard them like a miser counting coin against some unlikely future dearth. Today's unlikely additions to the stack included a history of Ghengis Khan, John Julius Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium, and Judith Flanders' Consuming Passions: Pleasure and Leisure in Victorian England. And we shan't mention the introduction to Abnormal Psychology I picked up because I want to know more about what Criminal Minds keeps talking about.

No, let's not mention that.

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I've had Geoff Ryman's Air on my shelf for the better part of a year. Perhaps longer. Other books, like Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides have been there almost as long. I'm not likely to get to any of them any time soon, no. Course books all the way, that's me.

(Who am I trying to fool?)

Spare a bullet, senorita

In the spirit of x(random things)=blogpost:

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Sunrise this morning was a pale band of gold along the eastern horizon, shading to purple in the north east above a milk-calm sea. Sometimes I forget the absolute beauty of chill mornings, when the world is still quiet and clean.

---

Looking at my bookshelves this evening, it strikes me that (apart from my necessary concentration on the ancient Greeks and Romans), my non-fiction bookshelf, while eclectic, has three distinct groupings: Victorian Britain, Elizabethan Britain, and women in the Resistance in WWII.

There are other topics there as well, of course, but those are the main ones.

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I fear it says something unflattering about me, that I buy books I can't afford and hoard them like a miser counting coin against some unlikely future dearth. Today's unlikely additions to the stack included a history of Ghengis Khan, John Julius Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium, and Judith Flanders' Consuming Passions: Pleasure and Leisure in Victorian England. And we shan't mention the introduction to Abnormal Psychology I picked up because I want to know more about what Criminal Minds keeps talking about.

No, let's not mention that.

---

I've had Geoff Ryman's Air on my shelf for the better part of a year. Perhaps longer. Other books, like Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides have been there almost as long. I'm not likely to get to any of them any time soon, no. Course books all the way, that's me.

(Who am I trying to fool?)