Work: “Hi! How are you? Hope you’re feeling better. Just to let you know, we’re implementing some new anti-fraud measurements. So, HR needs to know where you were working between October 2006 and February 2007?”
Me: “Er, I was working for you guys..”
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Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.
— Roland BarthesKarie Bookish
Karie is a published writer, keen photographer and vastly over-educated. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland with her partner, David, after having spent (far too many?) years in her native Denmark.
Her interests include: print culture, modernist poetry, typography, and collecting early 20th C paperbacks + signed first editions of Alasdair Gray hardbacks. She also likes the Eurovision Song Contest, 1940s and 1950s Hollywood musicals, puppies and crocheting hats.
Fourth Edition is Karie's fourth weblog. She has been blogging since 2001 and has no intention of stopping.
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Planned books:
- Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray
- The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) by William Faulkner
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Recent books:
- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
- Arabella by Georgette Heyer
- Wait Until Midnight by Amanda Quick
- The Devil in Amber: A Lucifer Box Novel by Mark Gatiss
- The Calligrapher by Edward Docx
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