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I want to try something new on you readers. Once in a while I will give my favorite reads in one particular genre.
And as always: comments are welcome. Do you have your own favorites or do you want to comment on mine? Don’t hesitate and let me know!
Kicking of now with manga:
#1: Solanin -one volume strong, this is a great story about growing up and finding your way in the world.
#2: Sorcers & secretaries – two volumes of the humorous struggling between fantasy and reality.
Jaine Austen (yes, her “mother is an Anglophile, and a bad speller”) has her own writing service and one day she has to write a letter for geeky Howard, who wants to ask a blonde female fitness instructor named Stacy for a date. Jaine is a bit reluctant to write it, but in the end, does what is asked by her client – money had a big influence in that decision. She had better gone with her instinct to refuse him, because next thing she knows, Howard is in prison, arrested for the murder of Stacy.
Jaine is 100% sure, Howard isn’t the culprit. The only thing she has to do now is prove her female intuition is right. Something that easier said than done.
Aurora (Roe) Teagarden gave up her work as librarian when she unexpectedly inherited a house and money. She decided to give the real estate business a chance. After all, her mother is one of the most successful agents in town. It should give Roe a head start. Well…it gives Roe a start, but not the start she wanted, for her first house showing ends with a naked corpse in the master bedroom. Not the way Roe hoped her new career would take off and to make matters worse, one of her new-found colleagues has fallen under suspicion.
Time to jump into action. Roe, the natural-born sleuth, will not have piece until she has unraveled this mystery.
Two universities, one in the USA (Euphoria State) and one in Britain (Rummidge) have an annual exchange scheme. Normally this exchange passes without a hitch, but this year the two ‘priviliged’ ones are Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp and everything will be different. The two academics arrive in tumult and changing times in the academic world. Philip Swallow is hoping to renew his pleasant feelings for the USA from the time he was there over twenty years ago, but he soon realises twenty years is a long time ago and everything is different. Morris Zapp has never been in Britain and would have had no problems keeping it that way, but now that he is, his ironical and sarcastic ways aren’t much of use to him. Both men are in for the biggest shock of their lives.
I’ve finally arrived at a camping site with unlimited free wifi, so now I can update you all without any hurry.
I left you all just before I went to see Ice Age 3 in a cinema in Dorchester. Loved the movie, but I’m a total nut (notice the pun…?) when it comes to animation. Although not as good as the first Ice Age (and the second for that matter) I had a lovely time.
The next day I headed for Monkey World again. Didn’t see the complete park the first time and I had to say a proper goodbye to Sally (didn’t feel satisfied with the first goodbye).
It maybe sounds corny, but that’s just the way I am, deal with…I have 
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After my departure from the first camping site, I headed to Wilton House. One of the houses used in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice. Some of the rooms were used as rooms in Mr. Darcy’s estate Pemberley. And I can totally agree with that…the rooms were lovely. They even had some original Rembrandt’s hanging on the wall.
Still being in total aw, I drove to the place where my home would be set up next, oblivious of my surroundings. It was only in the corner of my eyes, that I saw something that resembled Stonehenge. And what do you know…it was Stonehenge. Check…seen it, just in time to make some pictures.
Quick update:
Well, the days fly when you are having fun, and I do have fun. Since the last update I have seen Bath, the place with the Jane Austen Center and the houses she lived in. Salisbury (Jane Austen Museum and also used to be home to her) and the Winchester cathedral (Austen’s last resting place) have yet to be seen.
Yesterday I went to a Swanary and subtropical garden in Abbotsburry and today I spent in Dorchester.
(Sorry for letting you tilt your head, but a little exercise hurt nobody.)
And while Hardy was watching over ‘his’ Casterbridge, I went to the old Crown Court and the military museum and am about to check out Ice Age 3 in the local cinema.
Bye for now.
Finally found a wifi spot that is not secured so I can update some information.
Some change in plans have been happening and the vacation will probably be less literary than I thought at the beginning. The little bookshop town Hay-on-Wye will not be visited by me this time around, but Bath is still one plan I have not meddled with yet. Furthermore, I will probably visit two or three houses and gardens were the Hollywood people shot the film Pride and prejudice.
