Well, I'm a BIT farther on the right front of the Central Park hoodie.
I did do a fair amount of reading this weekend - nearly finished "Why Buildings fall down" and a bunch of stuff on soil-formation.
But Sunday...well, at church I thought I was being affected by someone's perfume. But it didn't clear up when I got home. So I decided to take my temperature.
Crud. I think I must have a cold. It was 99.4 at the highest yesterday afternoon (and my normal temp. is actually BELOW "normal," it's often something like 97.9, so 99.4 is feverish). And I have body aches, that I sometimes get with a cold. (No, I didn't call in sick today. I think I can make it through my classes.)
I spent most of yesterday afternoon reading "The Big Over Easy," which is the first novel in a new series by Jasper Fforde - the "Nursery Crime" series. (If you have read anything by Fforde, that will more or less make sense. If you haven't, it's kind of hard to explain.)
Anyway. It's the typical funny-literate Fforde fantasy mash-up: in this case, "classic" detectives and nursery-rhyme characters. The main characters are Jack Spratt and Mary Mary, both DI's with the "Nursery Crime Division." (Apparently in this version of Fforde-world, nursery rhyme characters live right alongside ordinary humans. This causes a few problems, for example, the question of how far do you extend "human" rights to an anthropomorphized animal?).
I LIKE Fforde-world. It's more interesting and stranger than the worlds created in more "realistic" novels.
This is the first outing in a new series; I hope there are more.
L.: I haven't watched "Kind Hearts and Coronets" yet; I was kind of saving it. (I tend to do that with things - books, CDs, now dvds...)
3 comments:
I hope you start to feel better soon. I too usually run a low temperature (usually aroun 96.8), and have always wondered if running a temperature of 98.9 wasn't a bit feverish. Which always gets me thinking about what happens to my body on the cellular level when I get a fever. I never look into at the time (being sick), but I think it is interesting. Hmmmm, maybe I should incorporate that into the general biology class I am teaching.
Anyway, best wishes for a speedy recovery.
hope you're feeling better soon. and i'm the same way, i run around 97.5, so 99 is feverish for me.
i will definitely check out those books, sounds interesting.
I have Big Over Easy in my TBR pile (mountains, more likely) and since I liked the Thursday Next books I am glad to see what you thought of this one.
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