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If you're thinking I've left it a bit late to write about Sunday, you're not wrong. I actually started working on the first version of this two Sundays ago. I'm trying to avoid making it three.

Sunday night television at the moment is Last Chance to See, Poroit, and Sherlock. (Poirot and Sherlock are scheduled against each other, as if that means anything in the age of home video recorders and streaming video.)

Last Sunday's episode of Poirot had a minor character played by the actress who went on to appear as Agatha Christie in Doctor Who.

I'm enjoying Sherlock so far. Well, I liked the first episode, but the second was disappointing. (It's supposed to be bringing Sherlock Holmes into the 21st century, so what was with all the outdated oriental stereotypes? They don't even have the excuse of it being in the original story - all the chinoiserie is new material.) I hear the third episode is a return to form, though?

Last Chance to See so far seems to be giving the original series of twenty years ago an opportunity to live up to its name - two episodes in, both the featured species have been no-shows when Mark and Stephen went to look for them in the wild. And then there's the Yangtze river dolphin, which they didn't even go to look for because it's been declared extinct since the original series was made. Disturbing.

(There's never been a moment when I've been tempted to forget that Stephen Fry isn't Douglas Adams, but there are times when he's in narration mode where he sounds remarkably like the original series' narrator, Peter Jones. Although this is perhaps not so odd; after all, it's not the first thing he's taken over from Peter Jones as narrator of.)

Fiction books
Terry Pratchett. Nation
Norman Thelwell. The Compleat Tangler
Norman Thelwell. Thelwell Country
Selma Wassermann, Jack Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam and the Rocket Ride (re-read)
Selma Wassermann, Jack Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam is Lost (re-read)

In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

Non-fiction books
(none)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener. Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War