Book reviews

[liv]

Gah. I still don't have enough time online. I really, really miss all my people, I can tell you. Brief update: I've been spending more time with blackherring and pseudomonas, which was really lovely and somewhat made up for being so much cut off from my online social life. We spent Friday in Ely, Saturday doing relaxing shabbat-y stuff, chatting and cuddling, and Sunday being touristy in Cambridge with lethargic_man. Apart from that, just hanging out with my parents and sister, making slow progress towards getting my life sorted out, and pining for the internet and the people I only talk to via LJ and email.

I have been catching up with my backlog of book reviews by writing them offline and waiting to pounce on LJ and post them. So, if you're interested, here are my thoughts on:
Nick Hornby: About a boy
Keri Hulme: The bone people
Cynthia Voigt: The runner

To follow: David Baddiel: The Secret purposes and Joanna Trollope: A passionate man.

Also, my domain forwarding system seems to be passing on all the spam and somehow losing all the real mail. If you have recently sent anything to my vanity domain, please resend to my gmail address, which is rachelgb.

I am so tempted to stand my sister up and stick around playing on LJ (while Dad is in London and the computer is free), but I am not in fact that mean. So I'm about to head into town to see an arty French film with her. Yay sis.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

*hug*hug* nice to see you popping by even if only briefly, and I hope you get access set up and sorted out soon. I miss you. *hug* Hope the film is good.

[liv]

Thankyou for the hugs, hugs are good. I miss you too, and I want to talk to you about books and get back to the enormous ongoing email conversation and probably argue with at least one of your recent posts. And I have found loads of cool stuff on the shamir (such as an impeccable source for how one carries the thing). And lots of other things too. I hate geography, and I hate having to share an internet connection with two other people who, dearly though I love them, need it much more urgently than I do.

But anyway, I appreciate this comment and the mail I'm not in a good position to reply to at the moment. Thanks for being there, even when I'm being unintentionally elusive.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Gah. I still don't have enough time online.

This may be obviously discountable, but since presumably you have your own computer, have you considered using it to read and write emails and LJ offline, and transferring between it and your father's machine by floppy? (That was effectively what I was doing after I moved to London during the six months before I got a 'phone line installed.)

[liv]

read and write emails and LJ offline, and transferring between it and your father's machine by floppy?
Yeah, good suggestion, I have been doing that a bit. It's a bit of a hassle, and I'm torn because I don't want to waste my precious online time writing emails, but then when I'm offline and don't have the emails in front of me I'm not motivated to do correspondence stuff. But I'm trying to work out a routine to tide me over until the wireless stuff comes and pseudomonas can get me online again.

during the six months before I got a 'phone line installed
Goodness, however did you manage for six months? I'm dying and it's only been a couple of weeks!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

during the six months before I got a 'phone line installed

Goodness, however did you manage for six months? I'm dying and it's only been a couple of weeks!

I used Pine on phlogiston at home, and carted floppies back and forth between home and work on a daily basis. But it was a hassle, and not one I'd like to go back to.