No-one to blame but myself

Posted at 13:16:00 on Sun, August 06th 2006 by graham
in: reading writing

I went into Ottaker's (now owned by Waterstones, of course, a subject upon which I shall rant later) yesterday and told myself to buy books. After half an hour's deliberation I came away with four:

  • The Crossroads of Twilight no, silly man, it's Knife of Dreams (Wheel of Time Part XI) by Robert Jordan I know I bang on about how this series has gone on too long but the book was on sale and after investing so much time in the first ten books I would like to know how it all ends.
  • The Magician's Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy Book One) by Trudi Canavan I've fancied buying this since I first saw it, but could never quite convince myself. The cover reminds me of a picture on the cover of one of the Dragonlance novels. Most importantly it's about magic, and I loves me some magic.
  • The Forever War by Joe Haldeman File under 'I've been told I should read this and thought "why not?"'
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson Ditto
Of course, now I've started reading I can't seem to stop. Everything else, writing included, natch, has fallen by the wayside.

You have no-one else to blame but yourself, Binns, you really don't.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

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