Flying South Chapter 15

Here's the next chapter of Flying South for anybody still reading. Not much else of interest happening right now. I've been gardening - the tomatoes are still ripening and the climbing beans are doing well - and trying to do a bit of writing. The unseasonal rain certainly helped growing things along.

My social life could still be described by a four-letter word and it's a bit dispiriting that I hear of various gatherings usually after they happen. I'm almost at the point of giving up trying to be social, though it would certainly be good to have company now and then.

I'm getting a lot of reading done, this means. The book tokens are used up and I'm back to paying Fantastic Planet Bookshop once more. I've read Temeraire by Naomi Novik, which combines dragons with Napoleonic ship battles so well that you wonder why they didn't really fight them this way! Other purchases, Lian Hearn's first and second Tales of the Otori. I received book 3 when I was a judge in the Aurealis Awards and it was excellent. I'm sure now that I know what is actually going on, it will be like an entirely new book. I would also recommend Laurie King, who writes what can only be described as Sherlock Holmes Mary Sues. Very well :-) This second-latest, The Game, combines the India of Kipling's Kim with Holmes and his partner, who is actually named Mary. Mary Russell, who can dress like a man and make people believe she is an Indian travelling magician.

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