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swmbo at 08:58am on 01/09/2010
swmbo at 08:58am on 01/09/2010Gooood morning all!
Holy thunder and lightning, it's raining cats and dogs out there! I seriously wanted to call into work from the parking lot and just be like "hi, I'm here, I'm just gonna be working from my car today, if that's ok"
But I didn't, I summoned every ounce of courage and got soaked instead.
*shakes water off*
I'm reading the last of the Booker books I'll be able to read, because my delay of books STILL has not been resolved, NOT THAT I AM BITTER! But "Skippy Dies" came out for Kindle yesterday, so I nabbed that at least. It's one of the ones I was looking forward to, which helps immensely. I shall quote a passage that's from near the beginning - it's at an all-boy's school.
Flubber lets out a roar and prepares to give chase, then stops abruptly and ducks off in the other direction as the crowd parts and a tall, cadaverous figure comes striding through.
Father Jerome Green: teach of French, coordinator of Seabrook's charitable works, and by some stretch the school's most terrifying personage. Wherever he goes it is with two or three bodies' worth of empty space around him, as if he's accompanied by an invisible retinue of pitchfork-wielding goblins, ready to jab at anyone who happens to be harbouring an impure thought. As he passes, Howard musters a weak smile; the priest glares back at him the same way he does at everyone, with a kind of ready, impersonal disapproval, so adept at looking into man's soul and seeing sin, desire, ferment that he does it now like ticking a box.
That passage is 1% into the book and bam, I am snagged. Also, picturing Snape. Don't judge, you know you kind of are, too. FATHER SNAPE.
(Howard is a teacher there, not a student. Even he is terrified of Father Snape!)
Anyway, I've never read anything by this author, Paul Murray, before, but I am really excited to dive into it.
HAPPY WEDNESDAY!! Somebody fetch me a towel and a cup of coffee, stat!
ETA: Facebook+twitter+LJ = UNHOLY ALLIANCE. STAB STAB STAB
Holy thunder and lightning, it's raining cats and dogs out there! I seriously wanted to call into work from the parking lot and just be like "hi, I'm here, I'm just gonna be working from my car today, if that's ok"
But I didn't, I summoned every ounce of courage and got soaked instead.
*shakes water off*
I'm reading the last of the Booker books I'll be able to read, because my delay of books STILL has not been resolved, NOT THAT I AM BITTER! But "Skippy Dies" came out for Kindle yesterday, so I nabbed that at least. It's one of the ones I was looking forward to, which helps immensely. I shall quote a passage that's from near the beginning - it's at an all-boy's school.
Flubber lets out a roar and prepares to give chase, then stops abruptly and ducks off in the other direction as the crowd parts and a tall, cadaverous figure comes striding through.
Father Jerome Green: teach of French, coordinator of Seabrook's charitable works, and by some stretch the school's most terrifying personage. Wherever he goes it is with two or three bodies' worth of empty space around him, as if he's accompanied by an invisible retinue of pitchfork-wielding goblins, ready to jab at anyone who happens to be harbouring an impure thought. As he passes, Howard musters a weak smile; the priest glares back at him the same way he does at everyone, with a kind of ready, impersonal disapproval, so adept at looking into man's soul and seeing sin, desire, ferment that he does it now like ticking a box.
That passage is 1% into the book and bam, I am snagged. Also, picturing Snape. Don't judge, you know you kind of are, too. FATHER SNAPE.
(Howard is a teacher there, not a student. Even he is terrified of Father Snape!)
Anyway, I've never read anything by this author, Paul Murray, before, but I am really excited to dive into it.
HAPPY WEDNESDAY!! Somebody fetch me a towel and a cup of coffee, stat!
ETA: Facebook+twitter+LJ = UNHOLY ALLIANCE. STAB STAB STAB
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