My Weekly Book

In Basingstoke we find the OBCZ as we remember it - if a bit denuded and largely populated with Young Adult paperbacks. Never mind! We are here to put this right. There are two wonderful titles there: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin (in a beautiful 1973 paperback edition that I think I am going to have real trouble sending on the road again) and With Nails, a hugely entertaining Hollywood memoir from Richard E Grant.

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Sadly we have both read the latter and decide that it’s only fair to leave it behind for someone else to enjoy. And we also take a flyer on Mischief by Mark Bastable (“The media muppets and the slimy celebs are running scared. Someone is out to humiliate and ruin theme - someone with a macabre sense of humour and an unknown grudge. The Trickster.”) A big, fat, discontinued library book of nearly 400 pages.

Looking forward to reading the le Guin. The other one could be anywhere between excellent and terrible - and strikes me as appealing to Mr Random. Certainly the sole Amazon review for this edition seems quite positive.

Let’s see how we get on. Serendipity is the name of the game, after all.

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Also, because we are weak-willed individuals, we bought the following:

• Count Zero - William Gibson
• The X-Files: Goblins - Charles Grant
• Angel: Shakedown - Don DeBrandt

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