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This year I decided not to drive myself too hard to read new books and let myself re-read some and also get out in the fresh air a bit. So, only 88 here instead of over 100...
( Books read in 2006 )

This year I read 103 books, totally 2323mm or over eight foot. ( the full list )

Book meme, so I can use my reading rabbit icon - hurrah!
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Challenged books meme
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Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
...along with these instructions.

I touched the mask for luck, saying "Help me through this, Apollo, and I'll give you something"; there was no time to think what.

Guess what I'm reading...

Nuala and Katy are right, and for an extra clue the title is in the quote, near as dammit...

I am reading Gödel Escher Bach right now* (thanks pavlos). It's a hard book to read, and not only because I can barely hold it upright in my preferred reading position of on my side in bed.I remember the last time I tried to read it in the mid 80s I pretty much read the dialogues and scanned the rest. So I am very pleased that not only am I reading it properly this time, but I solved the MI-MU puzzle By Myself, on a piece of paper, in bed. To the mathematicians and logicians among you that may not seem hard, but for someone whose eyes tend to glaze over when symbols appear, it's a relief to know I still have the interest and a brain of sorts to exercise it.

Also I have been actually productive at work today. I don't like to suggest the two are related, but it's cool.

*apart from yesterday afternoon, when I bought and read The Grim Grotto, which was a welcome relief

Not a gratuitous icon post in any way whatsoever.

( The first twenty books of the year. To be cross posted in 50 book challenge )

I am back at work. Joy. Thanks to my efficient and charming co-workers I didn't have an inbox full of outdated invitations to go to the pub, exhortations to take coloured paper our of the photocopier when you've finished with it etc etc. Thanks to various other snags, snarls and entanglements, though, I also do not have a finished training guide. Grrr. Still, new funding has been awarded (finally) at a somewhat more realistic rate, so my job is safe and I can afford to hire people to stuff the training guide mailout when it does eventually arrive.

Meanwhile I will keep myself strong by looking back over all the good things in the last few days. ( tra-la-la-la I'm back at work and I can cope, yes I can... )