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I've just finished reading Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff. It's an excellent book in my opinion; a fascinating idea well executed and beautifully written. I just don't understand why it's up for the ousfg award. I couldn't see any genre elements at all - it's outstanding, yes, but it's mainstream fiction.

The other thing I found rather interesting was what I assume is a new idea by publishers to give books a bit of extra interest. At the end was a small section entitled "P.S.", which had an interview with the author, a summary of some of the critical reaction and a short article summarizing some of the position of MPD in the psychiatric world today plus a couple of other bits I didn't read. It was interesting, but it was mostly a little light for my taste - I would have preferred particularly the critical section to be a proper critical essay rather than just a summary of gushing comments. Still, I wonder if it's something we'll be seeing more of.

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Well, I have managed to achieve my first thing in my new project. Only CSS hacking, but still. Now, of course, I have to try and fix something a bit more daunting...

Can't wait for the weekend. I think Alex is going away after all, leaving me free to garden-geek without feeling like I'm depressing him or anything. I think he'll enjoy it. Maybe I should make the effort and go with one year. It didn't occur to me until yesterday that he quite wants to go but also quite wants to hang out with me, hence the lack of decision. We'll see - I'm dragging him on my holiday this year so maybe I'll tag along next year with him