No idea what I read this week, apart from the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road).
Oh, and Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle.
All own copies.
Ongoing total for 2006: 70 + 3 re-reads
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Blood Heritage, Sheri S Tepper - finished Sunday 16th. Own copy, first read (well, I read a library copy years ago, but I only just got my own. I love eBay).
Bugger. I’m losing track of what else I read this week. Probably not much.
Ongoing total for 2006: 66 + 3 re-reads
On an eBay listing for a digital camera:
NEW. Only taken out of the box to take pictures.
OK, OK, I /know/ they mean it was only taken out of the box so they could take a picture of the camera for the eBay listing, but still. Easily misunderstood phrasing.
Lirael, Garth Nix - finished Sunday 9th. Own copy.
Abhorsen, Garth Nix - finished Monday 10th. Own copy.
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis - finished Friday 14th. Own copy.
Ongoing total for 2006: 65 + 3 re-reads
The Revenants, Sheri S Tepper - finished Tuesday 4th April. Own copy.
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris - finished Wednesday 5th April. Own copy.
Sabriel, Garth Nix - finished Friday 7th April. Own copy.
Ongoing total for 2006: 62 + 3 re-reads
Today, I am feeling quite gruntled. It’s a good day, I got up early, and I’m seeing foreign friends this evening.
Apparently, according to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, disgruntled comes from the word grunt.
Merriam Webster explains that it comes from gruntlen which is the Middle English for grunt, which makes a little more sense, though not that much.
In any case, I don’t care about the etymology. I want to be able to be gruntled as well as disgruntled. Words are silly sometimes.
And with a nod to P. G. Wodehouse (The Code of the Woosters):
He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
