Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Little Book of Sustainable Living
Produced by the Recycling Forum in the Lancaster area. Lots of interesting tips in this booklet.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
David Lodge: Deaf sentence
And the other book I read on the beach (two books in a week!) was David Lodge's Deaf Sentence. Although the UK cover quotes the Guardian "Very funny" and the New Statesman "Seriously funny", I'd probably pick out the following key words: death, suicide and obviously deafness. Okay, so corpus linguistics gets a mention (page 32 in my edition).
Iain M Banks: Feersum Endjinn
While sitting on the beach recently, I read Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks, recommended by Stuart. Okay, it did have something to do with work: one of the main character's thoughts are written in SMS-style shortenings and abbreviations.
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