Week's End
Apr. 23rd, 2010 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowWell. That's better.
The office-politics thing is looking a little better now. "Better" does not mean "good", though. There are things I can do between now and next Friday, which will - I hope - improve things further. They aren't things I like doing, but the alternative is... unacceptable. At least I know I won't be alone.
Meanwhile - and this one is good - a couple of packages arrived today. Both are the result of my first Amazon raid in six months. Contents:
Blackout, Connie Willis. (Her time-travel stories - "Fire Watch", Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog - rank as her best, IMO, and I'm glad to see her returning to that universe.)
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, Robin Lane Fox.
Nixon Agonistes, Garry Wills. (I also want to get his The Kennedy Imprisonment as a companion volume, but it seems to be out of print.)
Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture. (Don't hit me,filkferengi or dan_ad_nauseam; it's supposedly as much a sociological work as a humor compendium.)
Destroyer, C. J. Cherryh. (I've really fallen behind on this series. It's not my favorite Cherryh, but it's not bad.)
Indo-European Language and Culture, Benjamin Fortson. (This one comes highly recommended; most of the other books on the subject I've read are pretty old.)
Turn Coat, Jim Butcher. (I've been fretting over the latest volume; I like Butcher, but he's not on my hardback list yet. Finding that there was another one out in PB that I didn't have made me happy. I've already started reading it.)
Fortress of Ice, Cherryh again. (I rather like the Fortress series, actually, but didn't know that there was a fifth volume.)
Buster and Gracie are romping around my feet. I should probably get off the computer and give them some attention.
The office-politics thing is looking a little better now. "Better" does not mean "good", though. There are things I can do between now and next Friday, which will - I hope - improve things further. They aren't things I like doing, but the alternative is... unacceptable. At least I know I won't be alone.
Meanwhile - and this one is good - a couple of packages arrived today. Both are the result of my first Amazon raid in six months. Contents:
Blackout, Connie Willis. (Her time-travel stories - "Fire Watch", Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog - rank as her best, IMO, and I'm glad to see her returning to that universe.)
The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, Robin Lane Fox.
Nixon Agonistes, Garry Wills. (I also want to get his The Kennedy Imprisonment as a companion volume, but it seems to be out of print.)
Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture. (Don't hit me,
filkferengi or dan_ad_nauseam; it's supposedly as much a sociological work as a humor compendium.)Destroyer, C. J. Cherryh. (I've really fallen behind on this series. It's not my favorite Cherryh, but it's not bad.)
Indo-European Language and Culture, Benjamin Fortson. (This one comes highly recommended; most of the other books on the subject I've read are pretty old.)
Turn Coat, Jim Butcher. (I've been fretting over the latest volume; I like Butcher, but he's not on my hardback list yet. Finding that there was another one out in PB that I didn't have made me happy. I've already started reading it.)
Fortress of Ice, Cherryh again. (I rather like the Fortress series, actually, but didn't know that there was a fifth volume.)
Buster and Gracie are romping around my feet. I should probably get off the computer and give them some attention.
