I would like to talk about teaching, if only because it has consumed the past two months of my life. But all I can say is that it’s been alternately frustrating and rewarding, and always challenging. Today, after seven weeks here, I can finally state that I made the right decision.
Now off to unwind with yoga and some nice Indian food with my teaching college friend…
reading 11:43 am
Susanna Clarke’s collection of stories, The Ladies of Grace Adieu, is a spin-off from her tour-de-force, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I do like her light-hearted, almost archaic way of writing. The illustrations in this book are also marvellous, and I’m pleased that I’d gotten it from The Strand for US$5.
This, I believe, is really the last book I read in 2008. (Or did I finish it on New Year’s? I forget.)
100 books in the past year.
Favourite new finds: Fred Vargas and Peter Temple (both crime writers – one French and the other Australian)
Favourite book, which I should have read earlier: The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula LeGuin
Continued to love: Terry Pratchett
Realised anew the beauty of: Short stories
Got tired of: Haruki Murakami and Alexander McCall Smith
work 11:36 am
I’ve been using this phrase a lot lately.
Life in this new job is definitely not boring. I think back on my first six months in the headquarters, and draw inspiration from that period.
