Currently Reading #19

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It's not looking good for Kushiel's Dart, which has been languishing for three days now. In the meantime, I've devoured Joe Simpson's Touching the Void. Very different in tone from Into Thin Air, this book is much more visceral, full of heart-stopping fear and moments of terror and agony. Ultimately however Simpson seems to have come out of his experiences in better mental shape than Krakauer. A touching and affirming book. Well worth a read.

Along the way, I was able to hand off Twister to my aunt, who was very pleased to have an intact copy. Curiously, the book, which had been sitting by the printer waiting to be united with her, had somehow found its way down the back of my dad's computer desk. No idea how that happened. Wasn't me. So an embarassing twenty minutes was spent looking for it amidst denials from anyone and everyone that they'd even seen it while swiping it out of existence. Eh.