Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Another fine sunny day and hence another trip around the county of Kent. Popped over to Ashford this morning via Faversham.

In Faversham picked up a couple of books from chazzers -

Tom Wolfe “I Am Charlotte Simmons” (Picador)
David Mitchell “Cloud Atlas” (Sceptre)

The latter book I have already read, as it was on my fifty book challenge. One of the best novels I have read this year. I picked it originally from last years Book World Night, but is nice to have it again to read again. I gave the WBN version away.

On the way back from Ashford I stopped in Faversham to nip to the library and bought a couple of withdrawn books from there . I also bought an old 1949 hardback edition of a Charles Dickens book “A Tale of Two Cities” (Oxford University Press).in the alleyway from Preston Street towards the library.

I then took a bus over to Sheerness and picked up three rather literary paperbacks from the Demelza charity shop for a quid in total. Surprised to see such luminous items in a chazzer on the island, until cousin pointed out that people do take holidays there. I doubt much of the inbred residents on Sheppey could make much sense of Margaret Atwood or Milan Kundera for example. Anyway, the three books are -

Margaret Atwood “ Oryx and Crake” (Virago)
Milan Kundera “Immortality” (Faber)
Flann O'Brien “The Third Policeman” (Flamingo).

After dinner, and Eggheads, which clashes with the Meridian news, much to my cousin's annoyance, I retired upstairs to check my emails, add books on to the list and check my sales. Discogs sales have suddenly come back to life , after a few months in the doldrums. I have sold quite a stash of singles, 12” singles and albums recently. I even sold those odd looking AKG headphones for £15 on Ebay..

I also had a large problem with Firefox. It got into some kind of loop and not loading up properly as I entered the internet. In the end I had to delete it and reload it without all my favourites,bookmarks and cookies. Luckily I can remember all my passwords for sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, Dreamwidth,Play, Discogs, Paypal etc. It took awhile but now it is fixed. Infact, it is running better and faster, probably due to less bookmarks and toolbars.

I must admit I prefer Firefox to Internet Explorer or Google as my preferred platform.