book list

A placeholder for when I have time to write up some comments.

28/50: Widdershins by Charles de Lint
29/50: Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West by T. R. Reid
30/50: Three Men and A Maid by P. G. Wodehouse
31/50: The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower
32/50: The Legate's Daughter by Wallace Breem

Guest of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I by James J. Hudson
Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan by Nicholas Jubber
Understanding China by John Bryan Starr
The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White
The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 by John Childs
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775 by Thomas Desjardins
Theoretical Criminology by George B. Vold et al.
Knights of the Cross; or, Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz

no starving badgers!

(Not that there was any real risk of that.)

But I'm happy to say that, just in the nick of time (the day before my current work assignment ends), I've been offered and accepted a new work assignment. I'm staying with my current employer; I had an offer from another company that sounded promising, but on closer inspection they seemed to be as flaky as a box of Post Toasties.

I'll have a day or two off to take care of some stuff around the house before starting the new work. Just as well, as I think I need a haircut and maybe a few new pairs of proper dress trousers--more exposure to senior customers!

Time for a wee celebration!