The Bell in the Fog and other stories... By Gertrude Atherton

This book was well written, with good characterisation but I just didn't care for it as much as the last book of scary stories. Most of these stories didn't really belong in a "tales of horror" type anthology but were stories about the sad lives of sad Americans. (Which was a bit disappointing). The few stories that did have a terror or supernatural angle were very good. I had a quick look at the biography of this author and she sounded really amazing, unfortunately I think her work is just a little too American for my tastes.

Reading...

Hm my Anobii stats tell me that so far this year I've read 2 less books than all of 2007 but 200 more pages. And it's still only October! Odds look pretty good of being able to pass 100 books this year...

Geeky

Cause what else is one supposed to do after revising for their database test but take a geek test...





I know it's supposed to by my MSc icon, but I was pleased that my sci-fi geekiness was as high as my history/literature geekiness.

I was however slightly dissapointed in the quiz for when it asked if we had a copy of the illiad handy, it didn't then go on to ask if there was a copy of it in the original greek.