updates

i wish i had some thrilling news to announce. i dont. i have just been working everyday. yesterday i was monitoring best sellers for a report. suite française, night watch, and interpretation of a murder came in first place.
i have gone on a fiction reading binge as well. i LOVED shantarum, it is not the best written book, but i fell in love with the protagonist and the story is amazing.....
the new book by khaled hosseini, a thousand splendid suns, i didnt like quite as much as the kite runner, but then i read it practically in one sitting, so i cant say it was exactly dull. there seemed to be a crowding of action in very little space, so at some parts it feels like reading a laundry list of information, but i still wanted to know how it would all end.... then i read restless by william boyd. apparently he writes all his books in the british library, but to my knowledge i have never seen him there. but then my collegue connar described him as "a bad tempered old guy with ruffled curly hair" which would effectively describe half the people in that place. restless was also ok....a pleasant easy read no masterpiece.
on a seperate note, i went with max to the exhibit at the barbican of alvar aalto's architecture. there was even a model with good photos of my ultimate favourite book shop (in helsinki). it was interesting.....but all of this means i havent done enough for my degree....time to get back to work.