Amazon Raid

[stoutfellow]

Last Sunday, I put in an order at Amazon; it arrived in three separate packages over the last two days.

The contents included two CDs - Dinah Washington, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and Steppenwolf, All Time Greatest Hits - and six books: Laura Joh Rowland, Assassin's Touch (another in the Sano Ichiro series); Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys; George Macdonald Fraser, Flashman's Lady; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (look, you know what a procrastinator I am!); Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World; and James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds.

I'm especially looking forward to reading Empires of the Word; I've heard a lot of good things about it.

Comments

[filkferengi]

What I got to was pretty good. The catch was, I wasn't sleeping too well at night & kept having to go back to the room for major naps during the day. Throw in Swollen Calves Of Doom, Other Unfortunate Events, & a major heatwave, just for laughs.

Speaking of which, are you keeping your cool? fajrdrako said it was 106 where she's at last week.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. You sound almost as physically ill as I managed this past week (in addition to the cold, I also fell off a hill and banged up my elbow, and I also developed an unexplained rash on my feet).

As for heat, remember. I'm on the correct side of the mountains. It was in the mid-80s the first two days M. was here, and never got above 75 after that.

fajrdrako is in eastern Canada. M. went home to 97 degrees yesterday, too, poor soul.