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I'm starting this pretty soon!
I'm excited for you! I recently listened to this one, so it's still fresh if you want to chat about it.
Yes definitely. I'm just waiting for the e-audiobook to become available through my library's overdrive. It should only be another week or two.
I think I will start this one tonight or tomorrow evening. Depends on my work hours today.
Started today. Peter's empirical vestigia study with Toby haha.
Had to wait. My baby girl fell ill and there was not much time to read since thursday afternoon.
Sorry to hear that, Miriam.Philip, is that the part where he rates things according to 'barks' ? :D
Got started last night. YAY!Peter mesuring the intensity of vestigia with the amount of Toby barking is just hilarous. *LOL* It's funny though: In WUG he said about ghost that as long as he didn't know what they really are he would rather err on the side of ethical conduct but he has no qualms about stuffing Toby in a box.
Oh, and I got the impression that despite Nightingale always mocking Peter about his "studies" he quite likes the fact that Peter is this curious about everything. And from what he told about his childhood - him being to curious and always asking strange questions at the most inappropriate of time - I have some feeling who the last "brain-box" in the Folly might have been.
Ha! Nice thought, Miriam re the "last brain-box." Love the way you are always thinking about life prior to PetToby definitely had to grow on Peter. He gets to be more active in this one :)
Carol. wrote: "Ha! Nice thought, Miriam re the "last brain-box." Love the way you are always thinking about life prior to PetToby definitely had to grow on Peter. He gets to be more active in this one :)"
These books are just too good. I love all those characters and how Aaronovitch manages to give them such a dept with so few words.
Just got this book in the mail last night! Squee!
I liked this one. And I agree with you Miriam about the last "brain-box" at the Folly.
About halfway through my first read, just finished Chp. 8 The Pissing Contest. Enjoying the idea that ordinary and unsuspecting mortals might wander by or through an event hosted (frequented?) by immortals. My brain churned: Woodstock! Must confess to a flash of annoyance, however; this chapter felt like an interruption of the storyline.
I could see that. I don't know that I minded it, because it felt like a positive event, a moment of goodness in life (Peter and Leslie sharing a drink, 'dadding' over Abigail, the magic of the fair).
carol. wrote: "I could see that. I don't know that I minded it, because it felt like a positive event, a moment of goodness in life (Peter and Leslie sharing a drink, 'dadding' over Abigail, the magic of the fair)."That was my reaction, too, especially considering what comes later.
oh, i laughed over, "don't talk to any strange people... or strange things... or strange things who are people" or whatever version of it that was. :)
carol. wrote: "I could see that. I don't know that I minded it, because it felt like a positive event, a moment of goodness in life (Peter and Leslie sharing a drink, 'dadding' over Abigail, the magic of the fair)."Agreed; it was just a flash, on my end ;)
carol. wrote: "oh, i laughed over, "don't talk to any strange people... or strange things... or strange things who are people" or whatever version of it that was. :)"And the last line in Chp. 8 ... funny foreshadowing
That was a great line!
I've always thought that was a nod to Douglas Adams and "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".Arthur Dent is marveling at all the strange life forms he's encountered and says "The people, the things."
Ford Prefect gently corrects his friend "The things are also people."
oooh, that's a good one, Ronnie. I see it.
Ronnie wrote: "I've always thought that was a nod to Douglas Adams and "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".Arthur Dent is marveling at all the strange life forms he's encountered and says "The people, the t..."
Sigh!
