Well, it has finally happened - a moment when I am finding it difficult to squeeze enough time in the day to read! The moving boxes are here and all we have to do now is fill them up. Unfortunately I think they may have underestimated how many books we actually have and have not included enough book boxes to pack in. Both Russ and I have already done a substantial weed and donated many of them to Steven's Book Exchange and the Library book sale. The only rooms free of actual bookshelves in the house are the bathroom (they are not free of actual books though). The new is house is much smaller so not sure where they will all be able to go - will have to make sure when we extend we include lots of built in shelves.
I have been re-reading a bit of Jayne Castle (a.k.a. as Jayne Anne Krentz), who I have to admit I like but on second reading they become a bit formulaic. Which is probably understandable considering her output. I have recently read some of her earlier stuff (conveniently re-published recently - I was thinking that it was new books and got really excited), and have found it fairly dated. Especially in regards to the female characters - the women's revolution seems to be a really new, and as yet, untested/untried thing to them. They seem somewhat spineless and, as a jarring note in the noughties, there is an excessive amount of smoking going on!
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