“[Auntie
Jean’s] flat, although still in a state of disarray, actually
looked considerably tidier than it had before the forensic team began
to search it.”
This is from
Freefall, third in the
“Tunnels” series of books – aimed at a teenage audience, but a
good adult read nevertheless – which I am gradually reading and
will review together when I'm done.
Aunie
Jean is a deliberately cartoonish character, half slattern and half
goodhearted salt of the earth, but the above quoted sentence made me
laugh out loud.
This illustrates one
of the advantages of eReading, since I allowed myself to be seduced
into it: I read mostly on a 120mm tablet (since I only eRead when on
the move), never on a PC which is impossibly clunky ... but I can
mark a section (like the one above) when I see it, on the spur of the
moment, then instantly call it up, copy and paste it, later when (as
I am now) at a “proper” keyboard. A researcher's dream.
- Brian Williams & Roderick Gordon, Freefall.
2009, Frome: Chicken House. 9781906427054 (pbk).
Also 2012, London: Scholastic, (Kindle edition, location 908-909)
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