After much shenanigans, frustration and sheer incompetency on behalf of our old broadband provider and our impending new broadband provider, I am pleased to inform you that I should be properly back on line on next Thursday. All being well.
In the meantime, my reading's come to a grinding halt thanks to a lovely dose of conjunctivitis -- in both eyes. And just when I was getting really stuck into Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, a wonderful book about disaster capitalism that has me watching the news broadcasts about the Burmese cyclone and the Chinese earthquake with particular interest.
To lighten the mood, I've also been working my way through Stuart Maconie's very funny look at England's North in Pies and Prejudice. He's a bit like Bill Bryson, but with a drier wit and a nice sideline in British self-deprecation.
What have you been reading lately?
