26 June
Peter James has a new Roy Grace novel out called Want You Dead, my copy is sat waiting to
be read soon. He’s now working on the next Grace novel. Back to Want You Dead then; the book has a white
silk (I think), ribbon bookmark sown into the binding. I’ve not seen that in an
everyday novel before. So I was surprised by it. Looking at the back of the
book there’s an ad about the White Ribbon Campaign. This campaign is about psychological
abuse, one I’ve not heard about before and it seems a great idea to raise awareness
of it in the way that James has done. You get a bookmark for use as you read
the book and then can cut it of the book and wear it in support of the
campaign. Great Idea!
Currently I am reading another Peter James novel
called The Truth. This one is centred
on a couple who have decided not to have children. The hubby’s business is in
difficulties and someone comes along and offers then a life line, an illegal
help line. There’s an old saying, ‘if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably
is’. I’ll leave it there for now in case you might want to give it a go.
That novel though is in paperback; however, I am also
about halfway through another one on my Kindle. This one is by Ed James and is
called Devil in the Detail. Someone
once asked me how I keep both stories on the go and the plot lines straight in
my head. The easy answer I suppose is, ‘No idea.’ But really, it’s fairly easy
seeing as they are in two different formats.
This Mr James by the way, is based in Edinburgh and
his stories are based there too. Don’t get the idea he’s a cheap version of
Rebus though. The main character here is a young DC who is being bullied by an
obnoxious DI. This is the second of his novels I’ve read and both of them are
well worth reading. Why not give them a go if you can?
Yesterday I got down into town using Jan’s scooter. At
some time Jan was having problems with the leaver that controls the speed, so she
got it swapped round so that she now uses the left hand leaver instead of the
right hand leaver. Oh the fun and games I had with that yesterday! I felt that by
using the left hand leaver, I couldn’t control the scooter properly. The right
hand leaver needs to be pushed away to do the same on job and the distance was
too far my little hand. I did manage to get around though.
My Sony a77 went with me of course and of the 135
shots I got, not one of them is of and use for general viewing. I did get more
than a few real ale pump clips though, 129 of them. Now I have to spend an hour
or two getting them ready for posting on flikr. The things we do eh … … …
Today’s photo then. Is another of Kile on Sunday …
Today’s funny is another groaner …
A German car manufacturer is bring out a new model for
the American market only; it’s called the Audidudi.
:-)
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