Monday, August 20, 2012

Book Excerpt for the Day


    He liked the noise that a newspaper made when you folded it.  It was the only thing he liked about newspapers; he had to read them through spectacles, and spelling mistakes annoyed him because as a clerk he felt that bad spelling was one step away from bad speech, which was within hopping distance of being Welsh.

(from Alt Hist Issue 2, edited by Mark Lord)

6*/10.  The full review is here.
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