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May. 2nd, 2011 07:47 pmAll packed and ready to go pretty much!!! 3 sleeps until i leave and 4 until i get there! W00t! We'll likely have a low key weekend and then hit the road for Wells, Cornwall and Bath on Monday. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girfan, drop me an email with contact details if Friday in Bath is still on pls) I've got my hair done and tomorrow is my traditional pedicure. I just have a few little chores around the house to do by Thursday (like taking out the garbage!) and making sure the last minute stuff is ready to go. (meds, passport, money, bits of makeup that i use daily. Not looking forward to the flight, it's never great but it gets me where i need to go.
And 2 more 2011 books finished, both ebooks.
31 - Whiteout - Ken Follett
This follows a robbery at a high security lab in Scotland. The son of the man that runs the lab is in debt and is coerced into helping someone break into the lab and steal a new experimental drug on Christmas Eve. But one of the lab staff managed to smuggle out an infected rabbit and some of the drug, hoping to test it against a hightly contagious virus, also in existence at the lab and then the man was found dead of the virus. Security is upped and the man trying to plan the robbery must find a way to carry off the robbery anyway or lose his life to the gangster to whom he is indebted. The robbery goes horribly wrong and a surprise blizzard causes even more problems.
I liked it quite a bit, it was a real page turner, as the saying goes. Ken Follett is a good writer and i usually do like his books.
32 - Solar - Ian McEwan
This was supposed to be a comedy about a middle aged Nobel winning professor who's riding on his reputation more than doing any actual research these days. As the book opens, his fifth marraige is falling apart. He's a habitual womanizer but this time the shoe's on the other foot and he doesn't like it one bit. A freak accident happens and he ends up having his hands on some new research that could contribute greatly to curing the global warming problem and he runs with it. It takes place over a 9 year period and though it was supposed to be a funny and satiric book, i didn't find it funny at all. I didn't like the ending, either, as it sort of was left hanging. It blathered on and on about scientifit theory of solar energy and it just went over my head.
girfan, drop me an email with contact details if Friday in Bath is still on pls) I've got my hair done and tomorrow is my traditional pedicure. I just have a few little chores around the house to do by Thursday (like taking out the garbage!) and making sure the last minute stuff is ready to go. (meds, passport, money, bits of makeup that i use daily. Not looking forward to the flight, it's never great but it gets me where i need to go. And 2 more 2011 books finished, both ebooks.
31 - Whiteout - Ken Follett
This follows a robbery at a high security lab in Scotland. The son of the man that runs the lab is in debt and is coerced into helping someone break into the lab and steal a new experimental drug on Christmas Eve. But one of the lab staff managed to smuggle out an infected rabbit and some of the drug, hoping to test it against a hightly contagious virus, also in existence at the lab and then the man was found dead of the virus. Security is upped and the man trying to plan the robbery must find a way to carry off the robbery anyway or lose his life to the gangster to whom he is indebted. The robbery goes horribly wrong and a surprise blizzard causes even more problems.
I liked it quite a bit, it was a real page turner, as the saying goes. Ken Follett is a good writer and i usually do like his books.
32 - Solar - Ian McEwan
This was supposed to be a comedy about a middle aged Nobel winning professor who's riding on his reputation more than doing any actual research these days. As the book opens, his fifth marraige is falling apart. He's a habitual womanizer but this time the shoe's on the other foot and he doesn't like it one bit. A freak accident happens and he ends up having his hands on some new research that could contribute greatly to curing the global warming problem and he runs with it. It takes place over a 9 year period and though it was supposed to be a funny and satiric book, i didn't find it funny at all. I didn't like the ending, either, as it sort of was left hanging. It blathered on and on about scientifit theory of solar energy and it just went over my head.
