Docs "Bianca" and Diva "Darcie"

SO MUCH horrible blah right now. I really hope it's hormones and blows over next week, because I'm right now feeling annoyed by the apartment, wanting it clean, and simultaneously too lethargic and fatigued to move around and out of the bed and couch.

diana wynne jones - dogsbody

One of Jones's earliest works: my mother and I got it from the library and read it several times when I was young, but didn't bother hunting down our own copy. My memory was that it was not as exciting as her later work, but of course it also was out of print for a while in the US, and in the time before Internet shopping, getting hold of distant books could be quite difficult as it typically involved relying on local bookshops to order them for you. We did this for new releases from DWJ and Patricia Wrede (these were mutual favorite writers), but our luck wasn't always 100%.

At any rate, so much time had elapsed since I last read Dogsbody that I was curious to see it through adult eyes and form a new impression, but on the other hand, unfortunately, I still remembered the plot and the twist. ( I didn't remember quite everything though. )