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Jul. 7th, 2023 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempikeAfter my last post dithering about when to mark 3000 books, in the end I lost count of where I was and accidentally the 3000th book I finished (including rereads) was Gyles Brandreth's memoir, which is a deeply unsatisfactory outcome. Bah. Oh well, it is a meaningless number anyway.
In my Booker reading project I just finished Oscar and Lucinda which I liked very much indeed. Part of it reminded me of Eva Ibbotson, which I think is just because I've recently read A Company of Swans and there's that whole boat up the overgrown wilderness thing. Next up is Remains of the Day. I have seen the film, but that does not count for these purposes. Nonetheless I shall enjoy imagining Emma Thompson throughout. (One of the panel who chose RotD was the novelist son of John Profumo.)
I have just signed up the free trial of Kobo Plus after I realised about four things on my wishlist were available that way. There isn't that much else that I've found - I don't see myself renewing. (Not deliberately, anyway. I absolutely see myself forgetting to cancel and renewing through absentmindedness.) This means I have an extra impetus to push myself to keep prioritising reading over scrolling mindlessly on my phone to finish up the free books.
In my Booker reading project I just finished Oscar and Lucinda which I liked very much indeed. Part of it reminded me of Eva Ibbotson, which I think is just because I've recently read A Company of Swans and there's that whole boat up the overgrown wilderness thing. Next up is Remains of the Day. I have seen the film, but that does not count for these purposes. Nonetheless I shall enjoy imagining Emma Thompson throughout. (One of the panel who chose RotD was the novelist son of John Profumo.)
I have just signed up the free trial of Kobo Plus after I realised about four things on my wishlist were available that way. There isn't that much else that I've found - I don't see myself renewing. (Not deliberately, anyway. I absolutely see myself forgetting to cancel and renewing through absentmindedness.) This means I have an extra impetus to push myself to keep prioritising reading over scrolling mindlessly on my phone to finish up the free books.
