"A few."

Not very beguiling, I admit, but that's it, sentence two on page 42.

Thanks very much. I'm on a kick of finally reading authors I really should have read by now, and Barnes is next. Can't believe Flaubert's Parrot is forty.

I wish! The thing is, the one that's about to come out doesn't seem so hot anymore, although I loved it six months ago while I was editing it. But the next one, the one that's 3/4 written, well, that one's a beauty! Until it's on the verge of hitting the market.
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Don't get me wrong. I'm fine with abolishing fines. I just couldn't figure out whether the other poster was.

If James Bond movies are to be believed, it's unhealthy to bathe in gold. Maybe bathe in a gold-plated tub? Nonetheless, I salute your satirical tone, (though I'm not entirely certain what you're getting at: Fines don't amount to bupkas? And therefore no big hardship? Just asking.)

After all the popular representations, I was amazed to read how much of it took place in snow, on glaciers, in the Arctic and on mountainsides. Howling cold was a character.

I just found The Bay of Angels in a used bookstore. I'm on a kick of finally reading authors I've been intending to get to for centuries now (Brookner, Naipaul, Gordimer...)

Thanks for the platform! My best seller is a book about a cat who feels humans have been king of the hill for long enough. With like-minded feline revolutionaries, she prepares to overthrow humankind.

Things do not go as planned.

As long as it reads well, too.