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The shit is about to hit the fan...

It is probably the slowest moving Jane Austen's novel I've read so far... or it just seems that way!

Meeen, I really can't sleep after those battle scenes... gets me all worked up like I've been fighting myself!

'What're those wagons?' She squinted through the eyeglass. 'Are those... bones?"
'That'll be Stand-i'-the-Barrows. Those boys from past the Crinna always had some funny notions. Stranger-Come-Knocking was wild for plumbing, as I recall.'
'Well, who wants to die at the hands of a man with no hobbies?'

"The only real skill a king needs is to pick the best men to serve him. You may like to paint yourself as the least dependable man in the Union, but... I rather suspect it's all a front. When it comes to it, I'm not sure there's a man in the Circle of the World I trust more."
Tunny stared at him. "We're all doomed."

'I suppose... It could have been... worse?'
'How, exactly?'
The Arch Lector raised one brow. 'Well, nothing's on fire.'

Ohhh, the tragicomic life of postdocs... a classic representation of academia and its sometimes misguided ways.

Netflix says it's time to get ready for the next season! :)

Who knew that we should seek the roots of the Rastafari movement in Ethiopia? The world is small and big all at the same time.

The things we learn: The Dutch Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus traditionally arrived on horseback, with one helper, Black Peter. But the Americans changed all that too. They decided to combine him with a completely different Northen European midwinter tradition, and so the ancient Mediterranean bishop startingly acquired a team of Arctic reindeer.

Damn, I really want to know how this all will turn out...

I don't know if it's a good idea to read Abercrombie's battle scenes before bedtime... you just end up getting excited and wanting to jump into the Circle yourself!

I'm kind of digging this big Galactic social experiment more than I expected...

Ok, who knew that Sam had visited all three Baltic countries when he was eighteen? Such a wasted opportunity... not that I was of age to do something about it, but still... :)

Šoreiz tāds mierīgāks sižets, tiktāl pat gandrīz filosofisks...

Šis ir jauns līmenis nelineāram stāstījumam. Man pagāja kādas 70 lpp. līdz sapratu, kā šo vispār lasīt.

That's it! I want to go to Scotland... soonish!

Crazy youngsters, crazy times... but I still don't know if I like what I'm reading...

Almost makes me want to go sailing again...

Never thought this book could provoke giggles... but then again I should have known better as the Brits are involved :)

If you are a Private Secretary, there is nothing more galling than another Private Secretary being more private than you are.

The more I read, the more it seems that the espionage business is at least partially an activity for the sake of activity fuelled by paranoia, inflated egos, and falsified information...

A new level of ultra-long sentences and pages of uninterrupted text... It's a book to read one chapter at a time.