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[stellar_muddle]

Yay to warm sunny days.

Mental note: don't let Z bug you into booking flights until after you have checked the competition for the same dates... Could have saved $20 and (more importantly), traveled at more convenient times. Oh well. Christmas/New Years trip south booked now.

Today was spent mainly reading and eating Yum Char :) Z had job interview in town and I tagged along and loitered at the library while he was being interogated. Nice library had the latest Steven Brust (Dzur, the one Z read at Dymocks in Adelaide last year and we resisted buying new cause it was above $50 hardback) and the Peter S Beagle one with the sequel story to The Last Unicorn. Brain wave and arranged meeting with alpha_angel for lunch ... and library card borrowing... Was about 3 chapters from the end by the time for lunch, but bravely put it back on the shelf and went off for meeting up and Yum char (mmmm yum char). Then got card, arranged to meet later and (figuring it was safer to check the library before wandering through book stores) found a nice stack of books including the ones reluctantly put down and a bonus of Charles Stross's The Jennifer Morgue. There followed an hour or two of reading in the library (finished Dzur and started the Stross, while Z wallowed in Flint/Weber), before wandering off to find a cafe (yay to Verve) and continue reading with hot chocolate with chocolate fish* instead of marshmallows. This ceased only when the cafe closed and we were due to meet with K anyway. Then home via her place to pick up 5m of charcoal and 5m of black oilskin (mmy_me, that was what you wanted from previous conversations?), and that should make it to A&S tomorrow night.

Time to get a few more things done, then go back to wallowing in book. Merchant Wars aren't bad and I still haven't gotten around to reading any of Stross's science fiction other than the occasional short story**, but I really like The Atrocity Archives, and (so far) its sequel.

*Marshmallow fish coated in choc for those non NZers. Note, yes they do taste like the Milo/butterscotch liqueur combo from the camp (for those who remembered). Wierd.
**I still want to find out how the one with the drunk pygmy mammoth ends...

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[realityadmin.livejournal.com]

Ooo, there's a sequel to The Atrocity Archives? Want.

[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

Yep, am currently half way through it (The Jennifer Morgue) at the moment and probably the only thing rescuing it from being in Z's hot hands (or a pitched battle) is that he has a new Flint/Weber alternate history one and knows I will be finished before he is... that and I found it first...

Had seen hardback copies floating around Busy Bees (the one with the US import SF/F as well as the second hand stuff) in Wellington previously and carefully resisted. It's nice when the libraries have good taste and/or follow through on good recommendations.