A big day today. Today was the first time I took blood from somebody. Somebody else. With a needle. On purpose. With their consent. For medical reasons.
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Currently Reading If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! - Sheldon Kopp. Provocative... Spycatcher - Peter Wright. Very naughty boy... Twilight in the Forbidden City - Reginald Johnson. Revelatory... Crimes Against Humanity - Geoffrey Robertson. Dense... The Men Inside - Barry Malzburg. Bewildering...
Recently Finished Best Australian Short Stories 2008. Tops. 4/5 The Godfather - Mario Puzo. Gripping, though oddly obsessed with gynaecological surgery. 4/5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey. Crazy.4/5 Extro - Alfred Bester. Yay! 3/5 Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligmann. Glad I read it. 3/5 American Journeys - Don Watson. Marvellous. 4/5 A Room Of One's Own - Virginia Woolf. Surprising! 3/5 The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula Le Guin. Provocative. 4/5 Time and the Gods - Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (Lord Dunsany).Inspiring. 5/5 Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks. Below par. 3/5 No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy. Glass half empty. 4/5 Rope Burns - F.X. Toole. Fightin' words. 4/5 Diaspora - Greg Egan. Crunchy sci-fi. 3/5 Waterland - Graham Swift. Fantastic. 4/5 Luminous - Greg Egan. Masterful short Australian sci-fi. 5/5 Axiomatic - Greg Egan. Brilliant short Australian sci-fi. 5/5 Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks. Still tops. 5/5 Dracula - Bram Stoker. Gets better every time. 4/5 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold. Still incredible the 3rd time around. 5/5 Dissection - Jacinta Halloran. Should have written in the 1st person. 3/5 The Book Of Frank Herbert - Frank Herbert. Surprisingly mediocre short stories. 2/5 Faith and Fire - James Swallow. Nuns with guns. 2/5
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