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[fajrdrako]

What's wrong with me tonight? I'm so tried I can hardly move. Dragged myself to Future Shop and Best Buy this evening with maaboroshi and maaseru, to buy maaseru a DVD recorder for her birthday. There wre a few difficulties and adventures. I was so tired I was otiose... Heh. Always wanted to use that word. Got it from Dunnett, of course.

Otherwise: still reading Catilina's Riddle by Stevel Saylor. Panicking because I'm almost through it and I haven't got the next book yet. I haven't had an obsessive binge on a new author like this since... well, for quite some time. And I keep wanting to pick up my Latin text books, and the history books. Ilove it that - so far, and probably further - Saylor gets Caesar right. I am impressed.

I am exhausted.

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[moonchildetoo.livejournal.com]

Panicking because I'm almost through it and I haven't got the next book yet. I haven't had an obsessive binge on a new author like this since... well, for quite some time

Sounds like my Preston-Child and Pendergast fixation ;-) I've had my fix, but now have to wait at least a year before I get more :-(

I've read a couple of the Steven Saylor books and enjoyed them, but never got into reading all of them, etc.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Heh, I last got obsessive with the O'Brians. I got to number ten last month and realised that I didn't think I could live without the next ten. *g* While waiting for them to arrive, I started re-reading from the beginning. So now they are all lined up prettily on my bookcase, and I'm blissfully (and calmly!) continuing my re-read of the first half of the series, secure in the knowledge that I can read right through with no interruptions.

I do enjoy being a book geek. ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, being a book geek is terrific, and you're way ahead of me on the O'Brians - congratulations!

I'll have to get the next Gordianus book at lunchtime. Either that, or find something else to read.... If I patient, they might have it in the library.... I requested it, but can I wait?

Of course I can.

Maybe.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's nice to be on a roll with an author, isn't it? I'm hoping the library will have the next Gordianus book for me sometime today. If not... I might buy it at lunchtime....

Mind you, today's a busy day however you look at it. I probably won't have time to read. How annoying.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

How far have you got with the O'Brians, then? I'm on the last few pages of HMS Surprise, and luckily had it with me at the vet's today - an hour and a quarter isn't that long when you've got your nose in a good book.

Did the library have the book or did you but it? ;)

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[maaseru.livejournal.com]

Just had to say that lots of us who have *not* read Dunnett know the word too.

Though you might have felt it, you certainly weren't, and bravely stayed awake during an exhausting shopping expotition.

And once I receive the lovely unnamed gift officially, I will thank you and maaboroshi profusely and properly. The puter is now in the shop, being upgraded in order to receive the prezzie.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ooh, computer upgrade - how exciting!

Yes, I know the word otiose appears in other places and non-Dunnett readers know the word too. It'd just one of those cases where I first encountered it in The Disorderly Knights and tend to remember it from its Dunnett context. Association of a word with the place it was first encountered....

So when you do you want a birthday dinner? To coincide with the return of the super-computer and the unauguration of the unnamed prezzie? I get hungry every time I think of it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hey, I answered this - where did my message go?

I think I read the first four O'Brians. And one other - the one where they're in Boston.

I got hte book from the library. I love it, it's full of old friends: Caesar, Catullus, Clodia and Clodius - great fun.