Helmetillä oli vuosia sitten käytössä Androidillekin saatavilla oleva mobiilisovellus, jolla pystyi hakemaan, varaamaan ja uusimaan lainattavia teoksia. Se lopetettiin eikä uudesta sovelluksesta ainakaan vielä silloin ollut varmaa tietoa, mikä oli hyvin harmillista. Koska oma kirjaston suurkuluttajuuteni väheni muutenkin tämän jälkeen (kiitos syventävien opintojen), äkkäsin uuden sovelluksen olemassaolon vasta kaverini käytettyä sitä lainojensa uusimiseen Finnconin aikana.
Continue reading →What sensible university students with two essays and a study diary due next week don’t do is let their friends talk them into joining a read-along.1Then again, if I’ve ever claimed to be sensible, I was probably lying. Booky Pony pointed me in the right direction if I wanted to join up2Read: went ‘squee!’ at me over a pint of ale until I relented and with utmost reluctance picked up a book with fantastical locations, excellent writing, and witty grifters. Such hardship., and Little Red Reviewer kindly did not mind my hopping on the bandwagon later than everyone else so here I am, leafing through my previously unopened (I cannot imagine why) copy of Scott Lynch’s Red Seas Under Red Skies.
It has been years since I last read its prequel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, so now is about time that I consume gorge myself on enjoy the sequel.