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I very much appreciated all the comments of sympathy, and hope nobody felt I hadn't, because I didn't manage to respond. I'll catch up on reading LJ and other blogs very shortly, and have a bunch of great books to say something about, including Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells (which is still boggling my mind ever-so-slightly, knowing Wells from her picture books); ![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
sartorias' Over the Sea: CJ's First Notebook; Sweethearts, by Sara Zarr; and The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling. And then I've got a few earlier reads still to babble about - there should be a post about Austenland, chick lit and Jane Austen (and why the two latter should not be mixed) which will put me on just about everyone's wrong side.
For tonight, I'm going to report on something that still shocks me some 5 or 6 days after hearing it, with a vague feeling that a fury shared, like a sorrow shared, is a fury halved -- or -- something. Steve Wright, for those on other sides of ponds or land masses, was recently convicted of killing 5 prostitutes in Ipswich. His partner was interviewed on Sky news - not something I watch, but we caught it when Younger Daughter flipped during ad breaks. The interviewer asked about his stating that he had used prostitutes because he and his partner had had no real sex life. She agreed that they hadn't been having much of a sexual relationship, adding that they hadn't been in the house at the same time. And the interviewer (Kay Burley, according to this page) then asked - in what she seemed to think was a nice, gentle manner - 'So, do you think if you'd had a better sex life he wouldn't have done it?' Y.D. will be my witness, if anyone should think this couldn't really have happened. (But a Google search will verify the question, so you don't have to rely on either of us.)
sartorias' Over the Sea: CJ's First Notebook; Sweethearts, by Sara Zarr; and The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling. And then I've got a few earlier reads still to babble about - there should be a post about Austenland, chick lit and Jane Austen (and why the two latter should not be mixed) which will put me on just about everyone's wrong side.For tonight, I'm going to report on something that still shocks me some 5 or 6 days after hearing it, with a vague feeling that a fury shared, like a sorrow shared, is a fury halved -- or -- something. Steve Wright, for those on other sides of ponds or land masses, was recently convicted of killing 5 prostitutes in Ipswich. His partner was interviewed on Sky news - not something I watch, but we caught it when Younger Daughter flipped during ad breaks. The interviewer asked about his stating that he had used prostitutes because he and his partner had had no real sex life. She agreed that they hadn't been having much of a sexual relationship, adding that they hadn't been in the house at the same time. And the interviewer (Kay Burley, according to this page) then asked - in what she seemed to think was a nice, gentle manner - 'So, do you think if you'd had a better sex life he wouldn't have done it?' Y.D. will be my witness, if anyone should think this couldn't really have happened. (But a Google search will verify the question, so you don't have to rely on either of us.)