Well, I'm back...

[desperance]

I suppose that was one way to read Anathem. And the memoirs of Catherine the Great, and Ink and Steel, and Tom Tackles the Chalet School, and...

Not sure I'd recommend it, though. I not only missed the election party, I missed the whole election! (I had been totally looking forward to TV coverage all night long; I like election specials. But I dislike and resent private companies making profit from the loneliness and isolation of hospital patients, so I was boycotting the pay-as-you-go TV/internet thing, and practising total asceticism and/or indulgence: no newspapers, even, just books. Good books are ... oh, you know. Better.)

Anyway. Am back. Thank you, thank you all for wishes &c. I may have more to say later, but I'm really not supposed to be typing for another week, and my thumb is starting to hurt already, so...

"Back away from the keyboard, Brenchley. Put your hand in the air and back away."

*backs away*

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am very glad to see you back. I was thinking about you earlier and hoping all was well. Heal up!

[crossthebar.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, how lovely to have you back. Hope you heal soon.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

We've missed you! I hope the cats will be taking dictation until you're declared fit to type.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Good to see you back and hope you are recovered soon. It makes me smile that both the memoirs of Catherine the Great and Anathem are also on my inpile, though I do not see the right mindset for either arriving in the immediate future.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Umm. Actually, in retrospect? Interesting reads though both of them are - I do not recommend my method of approach. Treat all broken bottles with extreme caution, and be patient. The books will wait... (Tho' Anathem is well worth the time, once you find the mindset. Three days'-worth of reading and thinking: invaluable...)

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Welcome home, good healing, and thank heaven you had books.

I hope the boys forgive your neglectful absence.

[ellarien]

Glad to see you back! (And relieved you still have a thumb to hurt!)

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

{HUGS}

Glad you're back with all of your paws.

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're back, and I hope you start feeling better as soon as possible. *hugs*

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hey. I'm all out of touch: how's that baby?

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

Better, yay! He's on meds, they're noticeably starting to work, and he's (slowly slowly!) starting to gain significant weight again. Of course, he hates the meds...but all in all, we're starting to let out sighs of relief.

And thanks for thinking to ask even while you're going through your own recovery.

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

you have Tom tackles the chalet school - dude - I wish I could sing by to borrow..

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Swing by. It's not so very far... (And as it happens, I have them all...)

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

All - whimper

All

sigh

Next time in the UK you can expect me with either a big bag to borrow them or a bag of apple to sit and eat while I read them...

I have about half or less I guess.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

To be clear: probably half my "all" are paperback reprints, rather than the proper original hardcovers. But, yup, all the texts are here.

So, yup, by all means come and read. Bring apples, if apples are your thing; I shall provide dietary variety. And introduce you to Joanna Lloyd, most likely, while you're here... (The incident with the parsnips is still the funniest thing I have ever read in girls' school stories. I am a Chalet School fanatic, but still prepared to acknowledge quality outside...)

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

I have about 3 hardbacks and 3/4 modern reprints- the rest are the original reprint paperbacks with varying degrees of torn covers and split bindings. I am addicted - I want to visit the places mentioned and hole up inside the stories when RL gets too much.

Mostly I have only read a handful of school stories outside of the chalet school. I got addicted to them early on and only a few others every got through!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I thought you probably had all of them; I just wasn't convinced anyone would have thought to bring them to you.

I look forward to discussing The Stratford Man with you.

Also, Ann Cleeves has been asking after you, and promises to e-mail.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Hallelujah! Welcome home!

[tammy-moore.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you have kept your thumb. Thumbs and the ability to accessorize are what sets us about from the monkeys after all.

Have a good recuperation. Stay away from sharp things!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Thumbs and the ability to accessorize are what sets us about from the monkeys

What sets SOME OF us. I was watching clips from Fox New last night.

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's good to have you back. Mind that sore paw, the keyboard can live without you for a few days.

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

Welcome back. You read Anathem in hospital? Seriously? How fast do you read? I just saw it for the first time in a bookshop today. It's nearly as big as my unabridged dictionary.

Anyways, I hope you heal up quickly and can get back to the keyboard/cooking etc. soon!

[song-of-copper.livejournal.com]

Books on prescription might aid many a recovery...

...get well soon. :-)

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Blimey, that must have been incredibly nasty. Hurrah for a complete set of digits!

[jemck.livejournal.com]

Excellent news, greeted with much relief and approval by the whole household here.

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

So glad you're home and healing :)

No typing for a while, just reading huh? Well, that's not so bad.

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're on the mend, and I hope the boys are making sure you get lots of rest! :)

Take care.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

glad you're back.

[bluehairsue.livejournal.com]

I am very glad you're back. Only REAL WRITERS can produce elegant, brave, witty bon-mot jottings on exactly what it's like to get septicaemia. Don't think we don't know that it really hurts.

[kazdreamer.livejournal.com]

Yay! Chaz is back! :) Hope you feel much better soon. Take it easy... *hugs*

[pennski.livejournal.com]

So glad you're back! May the healing continue and may you flourish!

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

So glad to see your phosphors. I've been thinking of you, trying not to imagine Dire Things.

I recently finished Ink and Steel, quickly followed by Hell and Earth. They're really one book, and stand much better together.

Adding to the already sumptuous piles of get-well wishes...

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

Get better quickly!

[julesjones]

Excellent to see you've been let out. Now keep getting better. :-)

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Welcome back - and get completely well very soon!

[pjthompson]

Welcome back and may you have a quick recovery.

[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Welcome back. Now stop typing, as you were told to.

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! Take care of your thumb and just relax for a week. Cats and books and relaxation. Lovely! ;oP


Merry

=^..^=

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

Glad you're out of the clutches of the NHS. Keep healing.

[sovay]

Belatedly (election ate my brain)—

Welcome back!