Michelle's corner

The alpha is with six readers and will be with a seventh tomorrow. Two of them couldn't wait to get home and started reading already.

"Thank you for that, first page gripping already.  You woke me from my afternoon nap over the keyboard."

As this last book contains death, I don't know whether to be happy that it has gripped her or puzzled as to why it hasn't depressed her. I also warned the other one to have tissues ready, and she was not going to not read it over her lunch hour in case it upset her ... but she already got stuck in as well. ... What that says about my friends, I don't know!

For me, it is a bit of a relax. There's someone who's nicked my car parking space; there's a lot of car parking arguments and toe-to-toe arguing going on around here. In the early days, I cared, because some households have three cars and it was really difficult to get a space. Now, it is slightly more easy, and I've only got the one car, but because I'm so early to work and so late home, I can't fight for my space. If I ever made it as an author, the first thing I'd do is get a house with a private drive.

I can also turn my attention to the fight we've got in the village about the houses that we've got to have developed here. The UK is short of housing and villages/towns/etc, are having to acquiesce to more housing going up, but the country as a whole is suffering NIMBY's who get on to the councils specifically to ensure that nothing gets developed near them. It's a national problem. So that is another ongoing problem that I'm having to stick my ore in to.

For a short period of a few weeks, I'm now down to just me and work. Hopefully I can make more inroads on, "A Table In Berlin," which I took to read on a train journey to another remote site on Monday ... however, I bumped in to a colleague so bugger all got read then either.

Still, two weeks, possibly three, without having to seriously think about Grave until the feedback returns. ... Bliss.