Football and Books
Dec. 30th, 2012 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Some late observations from the Euros:
Spain have turned into Brazil i.e. even when they're playing an odd formation, they're still worth a punt.
Italy have turned into Germany as in, how are that team, with only those players at their disposal doing so well.
Germany are now the Netherlands, underachieving given the players they've got
The Netherlands are now the old Spain, leaving everyone scratching their heads at how a team with some much talent can perform so poorly together as a team.
It is most perplexing.
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While I was in Leicester just before Christmas I went into a lovely new second hand bookshop and bought a book (I had to restrain myself due to travelling).
I loved it. It was so wonderfully inventive and pleasingly odd and refreshingly different. I really enjoyed the setting and the silliness, and the sinister parts. Yes, I thought those were very well done indeed. And there's a different bit of wordplay around every corner, which is just my kind of thing.
The only thing stopping me giving this full marks is that I didn't entirely believe the romantic parts or Acheron Hades. I am very much looking forward to reading the next in the series however. I just want to see more of this world.
One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Well at least one of the suggestions is something I'm not going to read (The Amber Spyglass because I bounced off The Northern Lights).
The Unsuggestions are all religious books and I don't mean grand works of theology :)
Spain have turned into Brazil i.e. even when they're playing an odd formation, they're still worth a punt.
Italy have turned into Germany as in, how are that team, with only those players at their disposal doing so well.
Germany are now the Netherlands, underachieving given the players they've got
The Netherlands are now the old Spain, leaving everyone scratching their heads at how a team with some much talent can perform so poorly together as a team.
It is most perplexing.
~~~~
While I was in Leicester just before Christmas I went into a lovely new second hand bookshop and bought a book (I had to restrain myself due to travelling).
I loved it. It was so wonderfully inventive and pleasingly odd and refreshingly different. I really enjoyed the setting and the silliness, and the sinister parts. Yes, I thought those were very well done indeed. And there's a different bit of wordplay around every corner, which is just my kind of thing.
The only thing stopping me giving this full marks is that I didn't entirely believe the romantic parts or Acheron Hades. I am very much looking forward to reading the next in the series however. I just want to see more of this world.
One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Well at least one of the suggestions is something I'm not going to read (The Amber Spyglass because I bounced off The Northern Lights).
The Unsuggestions are all religious books and I don't mean grand works of theology :)
