AUTHOR: Julie
DATE: 11/07/2007
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>Since discovering <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=elizabeth%20george%20lynley&amp;tag=juvinunit-20&amp;index=na-books-us&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">Elizabeth George</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=juvinunit-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" alt="" style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> I've been devouring volumes of her work, so much that I've been neglecting to watch the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=inspector%20lynley&amp;tag=juvinunit-20&amp;index=na-video-us%3Advd&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">BBC show based on her books</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=juvinunit-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" alt="" style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" />, the DVDs for which I keep renewing from the library. Don't get me wrong, the show is superb, but there's only so much you can crowd into an hour, and besides they always show the crime scene too many times for my taste. The books are just a lot richer in other kinds of details.<br /><br />I got some news today that made Kevin want to celebrate, even though I didn't really consider it good news, more the lesser of two evils, like if the doctor said your extremely sore back was not a slipped disk, but Kevin said it was worth celebrating anyway because it could have been much, much worse, which was the honest to goodness truth, so we had a lovely meal to commemorate the event, and it all made me smile despite myself, so it was a good day after all.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://juvin.com/labels/books.shtml">books</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://juvin.com/labels/food.shtml">food</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://juvin.com/labels/nablopomo.shtml">nablopomo</a></p>
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