Audioboo

I hear that John Grisham has written another novel. This fact had passed me by until now, but since I have now heard about it, I find myself duty bound to seek out the book.

It's easy to describe every John Grisham novel as being an identical "Plucky young lawyer takes on the bad guys and wins" romp, and indeed while this may be true, there is no harm in consistency. For indeed Mr Grisham did write two books which were not about lawyers, young or otherwise. One was "A Painted House", which was about a house. At no point were lawyers involved. At each new chapter you kind of hoped that an evil property developer would come along, twirl his moustache and throw everybody out on the street, thus attracting the class action attentions of some plucky young lawyers who just happened to be passing while on the way to the annual sock hop (well, it was a long time ago), but no. There was the house. A painted house. And no lawyers disturbed it.

There was another book as well. I think it was about baseball. I don't even remember what that one was called. I should probably look it up, out of due diligence and my overall blogger's duty to you, the blog reader.

(time passes)

Oh yes, it was about baseball. And absolutely no lawyers were involved whatsoever.

Anyway, back to the legal side of things, and Grisham is back on form with yet another identikit, yet entirely irresistable, read. That said, in these modern times, I quite prefer audiobooks. They take up much less space, and are much easier to carry around with you, as they fit onto your iPod without making it any larger at all.

And so it was that I sat back and began listening. The opening announcement begins: "Random House audio presents... The Associate, by John Grisham. Read for you by Eric Singer."

I had to stop it at that point, because those two words kind of got to me, in the stupid kind of way which normal people probably don't have to worry about. Read "for me". Wow. I'm not sure what it is about that, but it almost brings a tear to my eye. It's really rather nice to think that someone would go to all that trouble.

Then again, I might just be crazy. If so, I will be sure to appoint a plucky young lawyer to fight my case. The story could make quite the page-turner.

Rumours Of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

It's been altogether much too long since I last posted. Somehow, all kinds of nothing got in the way between me and keeping my millions and millions of readers up-to-date with all the latest news from my tiny little mind. A heinous omission, and hopefully one which this post is on the way to correcting.

Many times recently I have often thought "I must blog about that", and then I think that I can't really do that until I get around to writing the "re-establishing" article (like this) which re-introduces myself and explains where I've been all this time. The truth is that really I haven't been anywhere, although I've still been feeling a little under the weather from my entirely unpleasant experiences at the end of last year.

I did buy some more donuts in January, though, and they were very nice.

Anyway, erm, I'm back. More soon. :)