Bits and pieces

[sawyl]

Gentle day pottering around at home and reading and listening to Bach. I've finally found time to read Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword, which may just be even better than Ancillary Justice and which has left me with a powerful urge to go back and re-read — and possibly even write up — the first book in series. But first I think I'm going to allow myself a couple of cosy crime novels, then, possibly, Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair.

Today's Paul wasn't too demanding: I liked the wordplay in "Recording away from the studio — tedious? (7,9) while "Iffy novel about debasement ultimately, fiend from hell shackling female in vacuous story? (5,6,2,4)" made me laugh when I eventually worked it out...