Sunday, November 16, 2014

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “Did she have a sofa, your aunt?”
    “No, just an armchair and a pair of pouffes.”
    “Ample seating.  Did she live on her own?”
    “She does now, the pouffes moved out.  They’ve opened a candle shop in Kemptown.”
    “The air’s very bracing in Kemptown.  Someone told me that it was good for rheumatism.  So I went there and caught it.”
    “You can’t catch rheumatism, can you?”
    “It all depends who’s throwing it,” I said.  “Boys will be boys.”

    (from Waiting For Godalming by Robert Rankin)

    9*/10.  The complete review is here.
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