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Dec. 23rd, 2006 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceActually I'm not quite sure if it is spam, if it's just retail recommendations directed at an established customer; but every now and then Amazon sends me a list of stuff they think I'll like, based on what I've bought previously. Often these days I run my eye down the list and think "Thanks, guys, you're absolutely right, I would like all these books - but as it happens, I already have them, or I've read them elsewhere," which is nice.
Today, though, they think I might like Untold Stories by Alan Bennett - which they're absolutely right, of course I would. But why do they think this, why are they recommending it to me? Because I bought "Side by Side by Sondheim". Which is a leap of imagination that actually quite impresses me.
In other news: I have met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nineweaving, which was good (tho' I fell over on slippiness beneath a bridge, which was bad, and has jarred my spine unnecessarily); and I have shopped once today already, and think I must do it twice more (town, and supermarket, and Asian foodstore: they are all three of them in different directions from here), which I used to do as a matter of course but these days is a pain; and having delivered up the last of my proofs, I ought at last to be getting back to new work, the revision of the urban fantasy and the proposal for Dragon-in-Chains, but what with one thing and another, I think perhaps the workiest thing I shall do today - and indeed tomorrow, and until we are post-Xmas - is to read this book I have begun, that I've been asked to blurb. Me. Blurb a book. I'm sorry, what...?
Also, it has just struck me that I have not made a Xmas cake. Damn. I like cake. Perhaps I shall make a New Year cake. Yes...
Today, though, they think I might like Untold Stories by Alan Bennett - which they're absolutely right, of course I would. But why do they think this, why are they recommending it to me? Because I bought "Side by Side by Sondheim". Which is a leap of imagination that actually quite impresses me.
In other news: I have met
nineweaving, which was good (tho' I fell over on slippiness beneath a bridge, which was bad, and has jarred my spine unnecessarily); and I have shopped once today already, and think I must do it twice more (town, and supermarket, and Asian foodstore: they are all three of them in different directions from here), which I used to do as a matter of course but these days is a pain; and having delivered up the last of my proofs, I ought at last to be getting back to new work, the revision of the urban fantasy and the proposal for Dragon-in-Chains, but what with one thing and another, I think perhaps the workiest thing I shall do today - and indeed tomorrow, and until we are post-Xmas - is to read this book I have begun, that I've been asked to blurb. Me. Blurb a book. I'm sorry, what...?Also, it has just struck me that I have not made a Xmas cake. Damn. I like cake. Perhaps I shall make a New Year cake. Yes...