Snowpocalypse and other things
Feb. 9th, 2010 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalTook me two hours to get home, which amounted to Getting out of the Baltimore: 45 minutes. Traveling down I-95 to BJ's to stock up on essentials: 45 minutes. Drive home and unload car: 1/2 hour. Already took tomorrow off thank goodness. Turned out Monday no one showed up for work.
Have had no time for pleasure reading, including![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
secoh's story, which means I'm a shirker as well as pathetic.
but I did finish listening to a couple of audiobooks recently...
The Moor, by Laurie King: Mary Russell is abruptly summoned by her husband Sherlock Holmes to the moors made famous in The Hound of the Baskervilles to investigate a ghostly coach that seems to be leaving murder in its wake.
A good listen, though the actual investigation part is fairly secondary to a portrayal of English country life in the post-WW1 era.
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchet: Commander Vimes of the Watch realizes his worst nightmare as he's forced by Vetinari to be a diplomat.
I already liked this book, but the audio version had me LMAO at various points, as the reader was quite skilled at the various Uberveltian accents, from Romanian vampires in comortable cardigan to pseudo-Nazi werewolves to the Igor clan.
Have had no time for pleasure reading, including
secoh's story, which means I'm a shirker as well as pathetic.but I did finish listening to a couple of audiobooks recently...
The Moor, by Laurie King: Mary Russell is abruptly summoned by her husband Sherlock Holmes to the moors made famous in The Hound of the Baskervilles to investigate a ghostly coach that seems to be leaving murder in its wake.
A good listen, though the actual investigation part is fairly secondary to a portrayal of English country life in the post-WW1 era.
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchet: Commander Vimes of the Watch realizes his worst nightmare as he's forced by Vetinari to be a diplomat.
I already liked this book, but the audio version had me LMAO at various points, as the reader was quite skilled at the various Uberveltian accents, from Romanian vampires in comortable cardigan to pseudo-Nazi werewolves to the Igor clan.
