August 2006 Archives

Thoroughly enjoyable insider account of the goings on at top London hotels - the good, the bad and the ugly. The authors are upfront about the fact that whilst the book is a fictional account of a single day in a ficticious London hotel, it gathers hourly highlights from many years experience of working in real top hotels in London, and is all the more amusing for it. You won't come away with any deep insights, but you will know a lot more about what hotel guests will try on, and how hotels and their staff function (or not).

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Still manic at work, so a bank holiday weekend at Forty Acres offered the perfect opportunity for restocking from the second hand bookshop and the Paperback Exchange, sadly shutting down (but that allowed for plenty of purchases at rock bottom prices).

I raced through this over the bank holiday weekend at Forty Acres. The first in the Kay Scarpetta series, and a very different read from the later ones I've been reading more recently. Worth reading with care to see how the key characaters are introduced.

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Amazon.co.uk list: Kay Scarpetta Collection (in order)

Too busy at work to make it to the library for a fresh stock of reading, so I reverted to the bookshelves .... Phil's in this case.

I enjoyed this Sci Fi collection, selected by Isaac Asimov and starting off with Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey - I'll have to go back and re-read some of her other Dragonrider novels. There were some of the short stories that I could not complete - Philip Jos Farmer's work always seems to defeat me.

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