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The Goldfinch
Feb 28th 2016
Carduelis carduelis, so good they named it twice. There are loads of these around at the moment.
Admin1 watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and is reading Buried Angels by Camilla Lackberg (a chaotic start to a book clogged with children, in which the adults get pushed around by an increasingly ludicrous plot). Admin2 is reading By Light Alone by Adam Roberts which was illuminating. We are watching Homeland series 4.
We scored 8 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Blindfolded Moon
Feb 26th 2016
Exactly three years since we started recording our reading. Between us we have read 750 books, a nice round number.
Admin2 is reading All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders, and finding it pretty irritating, but who knows, it might improve if the protagonists ever grow up. But it didn’t. Reads like a kid’s book with a few fucking swear words and oodles of macguffins.
Spring in the Air
Feb 23rd 2016
Admin2 is reading Sacrifice of Fools by Ian McDonald; Northern Ireland politics with added aliens.
Mr Moonlight
Feb 22nd 2016
Admin2 is reading Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts. Someone should have told him the tibia is in the leg, not the arm; otherwise it was terrific.
We are watching Homeland series 3.
Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again
Feb 21st 2016
Despite the clouds, rain and wind we had our best solar panel day this year. We surmised that the clouds diffused the light, the wind cooled the panels to increase their efficiency and the raindrops acted as lenses to concentrate what sun there was on the cells.
Admin1 is reading White Devils by Paul McAuley. Admin2 is reading Twenty Trillion Leagues under the Sea by Adam Roberts. We scored 10 (yay!) on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Critter of the Day: Starling
Feb 19th 2016
Admin2 is reading Macaque Attack by Gareth L Powell. We are watching Deutschland 83.
Happy Birthday
Feb 17th 2016
Welcome Bobby!
Admin1 is reading Mind’s Eye by Paul McAuley. Admin2 is reading Summer Death by Mons Kallentoft which reads like the work of a pretentious sixth former.
Cloud of the Day: Lenticularis
Feb 16th 2016
Aliens landing.
Admin2 is reading All That Outer Space Allows by Ian Sales. We watched The Martian.
Round Robin
Feb 13th 2016
Admin1 is reading A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (my word, she is good). Admin2 is reading Bête by Adam Roberts.
Critters of the Day: Seagulls
Feb 12th 2016
Admin1 is reading Mad River by John Sandford. Admin2 is reading Ginger, You’re Barmy by David Lodge, which had an intro warning readers of a sensitive disposition of the coarse language within, rendered throughout as ‘fugg’ and ‘c–t’.
Hooray Hooray It’s a Halo Halo Day
Feb 9th 2016
It’s our first >2kWh solar panel day this year. Pancake Day too, thx Admin1.
Admin1 is reading The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu (adolescent wish-fulfilment. No redeeming qualities). Admin2 is reading Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas (adolescent dashed hopes).
恭禧發財
Feb 8th 2016
Storm Imogen and a rainbow. Happy new year of the monkey everybody.
Admin1 is reading The Disappeared by Kristina Ohlsson. Admin2 is reading The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts which was mind-blowing. But why the hell did The Times review on the cover compare it to Swift, Orwell and Atwood, like none of which it is? Because those are the only three imaginative writers literary critics know? [Admin1: They would have been better comparing it to David Mitchell, Alasdair Gray or perhaps DM Thomas.]
Downtown Where All the Lights Are Bright
Feb 6th 2016
Admin1 is reading Silken Prey by John Sandford, and rewatched Inception, which improves on a second viewing. Admin2 is reading The Disappeared by Kristina Ohlsson (another detective with a baby). We scored 9 on the Guardian weekend quiz.
Blackcap
Feb 4th 2016
Sylvia atricapilla enjoying our fat balls.
Admin1 is reading The Unquiet Grave by Steven Dunne (a who dunne it ha ha — overplotted, implausible and melodramatic). Admin2 is reading The Wrong Girl by David Hewson.
S Is for Storm Henry
Feb 2nd 2016
Admin1 is reading The Thing Itself by Adam ‘Clever Dick’ Roberts, who uses Kant to approach the Fermi Paradox. Let’s play Spot the Pastiche! I got Joyce and Wittgenstein, but the rest … Pepys? Defoe/Richardson? Proust/Mann? Ah, too clever for me. But ACDR’s enjoyment in his invention is infectious and persuasive, and the result was extremely enjoyable.
Admin2 is reading Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand.
Red White and Blue
Jan 30th 2016
A few minutes of clear skies in between the heavy rain, sleet and icy, blustery winds. We’ve now had 25 days of rain in each of the last 3 months.
Admin1 is reading The G File by Håkan Nesser. Admin2 is reading Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre which was disappointingly guessable. We scored a miserable 6.5 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Lol Hat
Jan 28th 2016
Admin1 is reading Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre. Admin2 is reading Day Four by Sarah Lotz.
Tits and Balls
Jan 26th 2016
We’ve been waiting for this title.
Admin1 is reading The Wrong Girl by David Hewson. Admin2 is reading The G File by Håkan Nesser.
Oh You Pretty Things
Jan 25th 2016
Admin1′s OTT trifle.
Admin1 is reading Day Four by Sarah Lotz. Admin2 is reading Chavs by Owen Jones.
Ziggy Zaggy
Jan 24th 2016
Trees reflected in water on a cloudy day.
Admin1 is reading Mortal Prey by John Sandford. By coincidence Admin2 is reading Mortal Remains by Christopher Evans.
We scored 9 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.