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I brought Alan home, as he's still sick and doesn't seem to be getting better. Took off to the nearest grocery store at 1:30 in the morning to buy tea, oreos, mushrooms and orange juice, along with a few other things to tide us over the next couple of days. Poor boy. I'm starting to feel guilty as everyone around me is sick and I'm not. Maybe I have that plague resistance gene somewhere in my code.

This weekend I finished Cornwell's Arthur trilogy. Even knowing it couldn't turn out happy didn't stop me from hoping. Amazing books, ones I would recommend to just about anyone who picks up books. It's got a good take on history, and weaves in just the right amount of magic. The emotional arc is superbly crafted. This Arthur seems more real to me than the most popular idea. Lancelot's a skeevy bastard in these though. I wanted him dead from the very first time he appeared on the page.

Reading another Cornwell book now, Gallow's Thief. Some very graphic descriptions of hangings in there, seems to be an all around dashing mystery.

book meme

Because I feel the need to type aimlessly until I fall asleep. Taking Melynda's list, striking out the ones I don't have and creating my own. La la la.

Melynda's List
Robert Jordan
George R.R. Martin
J.R.R. Tolkein
Umberto Eco
Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kurt Vonnegut
Alexander Dumas
D.H. Lawrence

My List
Robert Jordan
J.R.R. Tolkein
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kurt Vonnegut
Umberto Eco
Josef Skvorecky
Guy Gavriel Kay
Milan Kundera
Edith Wharton
Vladimir Nabokov

Going to hopefully transport more books this week, provided I don't get sick or the world doesn't explode. Need to get my oil changed too. Time to sleep now.