whilst on holiday

I did some reading

and can recommend to you, dear reader, one sad but beautiful: The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block (a book so fascinating and absorbing that I read it cover-to-cover* in one single day, only putting it down for a couple of visits to the power room - I even took it outside with me and scrunched up and huddled over it in the rain so the pages wouldn't get wet when I needed a nicotine hit) (it was raining that day, you see, so I stayed inside the whole day and only went out for the odd fag) (*the actual cover illustration of which reminded me of Rob Ryan) (up arrow); and one, quite delightful: The Same Earth by Kei Miller. . .