Daily Archives: 18 May, 2008

The Weekend in Books

(This encompasses books 133-136, incidentally.) My my, what a weekend it has been. On Friday morning, I picked up four books at the library, assuming that they would see me through the weekend. Alas, one of them reeked so badly of cigarettes that I couldn’t even read it, which was irritating, and I hated another

Poppy

Every day this week, I’ve passed them at the Post Office. The chipper woman at a folding table scattered with poppies, with an aging representative of the Greatest Generation propped up beside her, staring blankly at the Chapel by the Sea announcements pinned to the noticeboard. Apparently the same 1,000 yard stare which causes men