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Jan. 16th, 2016 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljI had a cold over a week or so in December and i've got another one now. Bleurgh. I started with a sore throat on the second day of the training and that night i hardly slept so i stayed home from work on Friday, slept a lot. Slept a tad better last night but also had another nap this afternoon. The sore throat has gone but now my head is filled. Was supposed to go to a Coronation Street fan thing tomorrow but i've cancelled. Then again, they might cancel it altogether because we're having a storm overnight and a lot of people might not be cleared out tomorrow.
Meanwhile i've started my new year's reading.
1. Orphan Black - John Fawcett
this is a graphic "novel" though actually a group of 5 comics focussing on the various clone characters from the tv series Orphan Black. Neat, it gives you a bit more background to the characters.
2. A Memory of Violets - Hazel Gaynor
The story of two children in the late 1800s London, both flower sellers, one lame and one nearly blind. The y ounger child, the blind one, goes missing and the older one spends much of her life looking for her. Jump ahead to 1912 and a young woman from the Lake District gets a job as a housekeeper in a residence that houses former flower sellers who now manufacture silk flowers. She finds the diary of the older sister and gets involved in her story. Pretty good story.
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
A classic. I have not read any of them before and I did enjoy this one which is more of a full length novel than most of the Sherlock Holmes stories. It was pretty good.
4. The Witches: Salem 1692 - Stacey Schiff
Looking back at the year of the Salem Witch trials. It was pretty bizarre really to read what they believed and what they testified. The author doesn't really give any insight to why it happened particularly and there has been a lot of documentation lost over the years, as if to hide it from history in shame.
5. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden - Jonas Jonasson
quite a good book, but it's difficult to describe briefly!
Meanwhile i've started my new year's reading.
1. Orphan Black - John Fawcett
this is a graphic "novel" though actually a group of 5 comics focussing on the various clone characters from the tv series Orphan Black. Neat, it gives you a bit more background to the characters.
2. A Memory of Violets - Hazel Gaynor
The story of two children in the late 1800s London, both flower sellers, one lame and one nearly blind. The y ounger child, the blind one, goes missing and the older one spends much of her life looking for her. Jump ahead to 1912 and a young woman from the Lake District gets a job as a housekeeper in a residence that houses former flower sellers who now manufacture silk flowers. She finds the diary of the older sister and gets involved in her story. Pretty good story.
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
A classic. I have not read any of them before and I did enjoy this one which is more of a full length novel than most of the Sherlock Holmes stories. It was pretty good.
4. The Witches: Salem 1692 - Stacey Schiff
Looking back at the year of the Salem Witch trials. It was pretty bizarre really to read what they believed and what they testified. The author doesn't really give any insight to why it happened particularly and there has been a lot of documentation lost over the years, as if to hide it from history in shame.
5. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden - Jonas Jonasson
quite a good book, but it's difficult to describe briefly!
