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And highly amused I am too. I shall also henceforth be using the previously unknown (to me) word 'Chalybeate' at every inappropriate opportunity, With a faintly smug look on my face, obviously.

I am making progress with a book on GoodReads.

At the moment I'm laughing out loud at the old Chinese mum's attitude to life. I suspect I'm just being softened up for some tragedies yet to be revealed, however.

At the moment I'm laughing out loud at the old Chinese mum's attitude to life. I suspect I'm just being softened up for some tragedies yet to be revealed, however.

"Lanceolate", my new favourite word to casually drop into conversation. Apart from that though, Juvenal Urbino's five minute fumbles, eh? What a sneaky player he turned out to be.

Currently working close to home (15 min walk) which is great in terms of getting all the sleep I need but rubbish in terms of getting a good 30 mins worth of reading completed on the morning/evening commute.Consequently it's taking me ages to get through this one but, it kind of suits the novel because the characters age a decade or so every chapter so, in a way,
it's kind of appropriate.

Crikey, I wasn't expecting the old guy who was shaping up to be the main character to pop his cloggs as soon as page 42 (not much of a spoiler cos there's still nearly 300 pages to go).Within a couple of pages of Florentino Ariza being introduced I'm dying to know more about him and Fermina from half a century before. If only the daytime world of work and suchlike would stop getting in the way...