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Nov. 22nd, 2017 02:11 pmI made it to the top of the library queue, so I am currently reading La Belle Sauvage, the new Philip Pullman. I am greatly enjoying it and I'm especially greatly enjoying having recently completed a full reread, including the two tiny books, but how absorbing and delicate and delightful I'm finding the process is not in this instance the point. No, it is not.
You see, our protagonist -- this is, as best I can tell thus far, not in any way a spoiler -- is currently reading two books: The Body in the Library and A Brief History Of Time.
I had been primed to expect one of these books to be a thriller.
It still took me three mentions, of which the last is literally "The Body in the Library, however, was gripping", to realise that this probably wasn't a His Dark Materials-verse sociological treatise on the (presumably contested) nature of embodiment in archival spaces.
... I thought some of you might enjoy this.
You see, our protagonist -- this is, as best I can tell thus far, not in any way a spoiler -- is currently reading two books: The Body in the Library and A Brief History Of Time.
I had been primed to expect one of these books to be a thriller.
It still took me three mentions, of which the last is literally "The Body in the Library, however, was gripping", to realise that this probably wasn't a His Dark Materials-verse sociological treatise on the (presumably contested) nature of embodiment in archival spaces.
... I thought some of you might enjoy this.