Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

Miss X has always been a ditherer -- she was a ten month baby and has not improved in any material way since then.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.