Christmas Reading

I took a break from the interminable Dr Zhivago to read this, a short read, a page-turner, rather jerky in parts, but on the whole, good.

I liked how unlike so many imaginary universes, where they create rules only to break them over and over (like Supernatural or Buffy, the Vampire Slayer) this book created a set of rules and stuck to it. In this coffee shop, you can go back to the past, under certain conditions, and you can talk to someone you've gone back to meet, as long as that person came to this cafe at some point. You can have a conversation for as long as it takes your coffee to cool.

But you can't, on any account, affect the present. 

Which is the most difficult thing of all, because nearly everyone going back to the past, has some regret they would like to address, something they would like to change. 

But it's not as simple as that. 

So redemption is not to be found that way. It is much more subtle. And Japanese. 

A few Christmases ago, I spent the whole day alone, reading Penguin Lessons, a Christmas present from Li Ming, feeling ill because of an as-yet undiagnosed condition. And because I was alone.

This Christmas, I went for lunch at Chubs's and had proper family time and then I came home and slept. And read my book.

So Merry Christmas y'all.

Hope you received a lot of nice books as presents 

And Happy Reading!