Finished
Yes, it’s been one of those “Please wait in the corridor” kind of weeks.
Plus I don’t like Kuala Lumpur AT ALL (Truly Asia = truly shitehole) and my hotel is a shithole, (a shithole within a shithole!) so I just sit in various nasi padang restaurants and coffee shops by myself reading in the evenings.
Productive. Only 3500 books in my library to go.
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Expat@Large 
<>the girl with the dragon tattoo<> arrived yesterday! so don’t tell me anything about it, sugar. i started <>christine falls<>, but put it down and never went back to it…did i make a mistake? should i start again? the other two haven’t made it to my shelf yet…xoxox
I’ll never get round to reading all those. How’s the toast?
Sav: Christine Falls – maybe you have to be of Irish descent… and hate nuns… I didn’t like reading about the young American man, just found him repulsive, but loved big sad guy. Don’t rush with Courage Consort, it is a slighter piece, very well written, but not going to change my world-view. Except to say I wish I could write that well.DH: up to you. Why you no take book? Toast!!! – you really know how to hurt a guy… as cockroach scurries from breadboard…
well, part of that is true…12 years of catholic school..i’ll pick it up again. thank you, sugar. xoxo
I can read and eat toast dammit. Today it’s ‘Television’ by Jean-Philippe Toussaint followed by Stanley Booth’s ‘Keith’.
Sav: I’d say 99% satisfying as a thriller/mystery. Ultimately it’s a real novel. But with a sequel!Dick: you know I’ve gotta hunt them up… btw: Is it true that only the English give a fuc about French intellectuals?
Yes there’s probably some truth in that. I’d reword it though….French intellectuals are the only foreign intellectuals the English give a fuck about with the exception of a few Germans. Robert Hughes and Clive James are regarded as amusing anomalies.