Monday, January 7/2013

Winter is catch up on reading time, and as always we're reading multiple books. As well as the ones aloud (and Tony Blair, while interesting, is a disorganised and repetitive writer, as well as self-congratulatory), I'm reading Elizabeth Jane Howard`s autobiography, Slipstream, and Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played with Fire. Slipstream is interesting in part for the literary and public figures that people it, but the early part, first quarter or so, is particularly interesting because it shows how very highly autobiographical the four volume Cazalet Chronicles are. Most of the main characters in Howard's life are very familiar to a reader of her quartet. Stieg Larsson is also on the bookreader, but this time courtesy of the Ontario Public Library system which allows electronic borrowing as easily from Cyprus or Morocco as from Sioux Lookout. Well, not quite as easily, as it's only possible to log in to the Ontario Public Library system when the SL library is open, and there's an eight hour time difference here. Easy to borrow a book at midnight though.