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Lily Fairbairn
Valinor
Dec 4 2012, 2:42pm
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The is-it-December-already reading thread!
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I suppose many of us are now reading reviews for The Hobbit---I know I am. I'd just as soon be spoiled, thank you.  But for those of us who are also reading books, magazines, etc....
I'm still going through the John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey stories for the magazine article, and have actually made a start! Boy, should I ever have told the editor I'd do this after the first of the year, not that I don't have other things promised for then. Ah well.
Here's the long paragraph that starts off the first Rumpole story, originally published in the 70s. It could be used in a creative writing class as an example of effective narrative and the power of voice:
“I, Horace Rumpole, barrister at law, 68 next birthday, Old Bailey Hack, husband to Mrs. Hilda Rumpole (known to me only as She Who Must Be Obeyed) and father to Nicholas Rumpole (lecturer in social studies at the University of Baltimore, I have always been extremely proud of Nick); I, who have a mind full of old murders, legal anecdotes and memorable fragments of the Oxford Book of English Verse (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s edition) together with a dependable knowledge of bloodstains, blood groups, fingerprints, and forgery by typewriters; I, who am now the oldest member of my Chambers, take up my pen at this advanced age during a lull in business (there’s not much crime about, all the best villains seem to be off on holiday in the Costa Brava,) in order to write my reconstructions of some of my recent triumphs (including a number of recent disasters) in the Courts of Law, hoping there by to turn a bob or two which won’t be immediately grabbed by the taxman, or my clerk Henry, or by She Who Must be Obeyed, and perhaps give some sort of entertainment to those who, like myself, have found in British justice a life-long subject of harmless fun.”
What have YOU been reading?
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The is-it-December-already reading thread!
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 4 2012, 2:42pm
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This is the *It certainly is December* reply!
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Alcarcalime
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Dec 4 2012, 5:14pm
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Asimov wrote a lot!
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 4 2012, 6:18pm
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I love Asimov's non-fiction essays
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zarabia
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Dec 6 2012, 6:17am
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I have, also.
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Alcarcalime
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Dec 6 2012, 11:04am
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Nothing yet
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Ardamírë
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Dec 4 2012, 5:40pm
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If nothing else...
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 4 2012, 6:18pm
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Absolutely!
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Ardamírë
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Dec 4 2012, 6:30pm
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I'm pecking away...
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Magpie
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Dec 4 2012, 6:05pm
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Perhaps an audio book?
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 4 2012, 6:19pm
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I listen to audio books in the car
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Magpie
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Dec 4 2012, 7:37pm
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Black Powder War
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Elberbeth
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Dec 4 2012, 6:39pm
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It's a great series!
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 4 2012, 8:21pm
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I've been reading one of Dreamdeer's novels
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Dec 4 2012, 6:42pm
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Wow!
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 4 2012, 8:22pm
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Dreamdeer!
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Starling
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Dec 5 2012, 7:29am
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Letters From Father Christmas, The Three Musketeers
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One Ringer
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Dec 4 2012, 11:03pm
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Tolkien was a genius . . .
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 5 2012, 3:53pm
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*Finally* made it through The Worm Ouroboros.
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Dec 5 2012, 3:00am
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Good for you!
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 5 2012, 3:54pm
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Book 3 of The Awakened trilogy by Jason Tesar
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NottaSackville
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Dec 5 2012, 12:48pm
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You have to wonder . . .
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Lily Fairbairn
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Dec 5 2012, 3:55pm
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The skeletons are staying firmly where they belong - in the closet.
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NottaSackville
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Dec 5 2012, 7:08pm
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The King of Elfland's Daughter
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zarabia
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Dec 6 2012, 6:12am
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Finished "Cold Days"
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Annael
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Dec 7 2012, 3:16am
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