I said I'd be talking about books, so...

I'm working a lot at the moment and when I'm back at the hotel I often get lost in the internet, so I haven't read as much lately as I did in October. Still, there is a bunch of books to talk about.

( The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman, 1962 )

( Elsewhere, by Will Shetterly, 1991 )

( Darwinia, by Robert Charles Wilson, 1998 )

I also read a book with short stories by Dorothy Sayers: "Hangman's Holiday". Some Lord Peter, some Montague Egg, two others. One of the Montague Egg stories was too complicated for my taste (and required a lot of knowledge about the English railway system in the 1930s, which I lack), and two were too simple, but the rest was just fine and they were all new to me.

Finally, I read "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien" (not front to back, more browsing), and marvelled at Unwin's patience. Those guys waited 17 years for Tolkien to write "more about Hobbits". And the best thing is, he did, and it was good.

At work, I spend most of my time writing scripts at a leisurely pace, which is the most relaxing thing I have done at work in years. And in only ten days I'll be flying back, and then to Tenerife, and I haven't even opened my Spanish textbook yet.

After so many words, I'll finish with a comic: Galactus is Coming -- a Marvel/Chick tract crossover.