THE BOOKWORMERY
Hell Week
I may be making the same risk of extrapolating too much from a sample of one as I did when I wrote Bookworm and assumed that every keen reader was an introverted as me – but on the other hand, we are all definitely human and it is all definitely too hot, yes? If you are (like the shamefaced woman – unnecessarily shamefaced woman! – who came up to me after an event to confess – and it did have the air of a confession, so well if inadvertently had I done my doctrinal work - that she was a sociable bookworm) thriving in the heat, well, hurrah! And if there are any secrets beyond the genetic please share them with the melting, malfunctioning rest of us. But I suspect for most of us it has been a matter of simply making it through this vile week as best we can.
Partly because it’s been such a difficult week (my son and I have also had a bug, I’ve got my monthly mouthful of ulcers and a mosquito-type thing has bitten me so viciously up and down my leg that it has now swelled up like a blood sausage – my leg, not the mosquito. I slapped that flat with great satisfaction) and I wasn’t sure I was going to be fit on Saturday to write a post, and partly because I’m still trying to find the most suitable format, this instalment of The Bookwormery is in diary form. Chunks, you see, of a week in books, in case I was hospitalized with heatstroke or carted away to the madhouse in sheer screaming frustration with the mercury readings at any point.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy – either as a one off, or as regular (though not weekly) way of doing things. Paid subscribers, as ever, please let me know your feelings in the comments. I think everyone else can contact me in Notes?
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And may we all experience happier temperatures soon.
Love,
Lucy
