I didn't get either a lot of reading time or a lot of Internet time in during my ten day holiday trip to the UK (England, Scotland and Northern Ireland), although I most definitely spent more time in actual physical bookshops than in all of the previous year put together. Going to three Derek Landy signings in three different cities and spending a total of about 10 hours queueing between the aisles played a considerable part in that.
Anyway, reading-wise, on the plane on the way there I read
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller, a short story by Joanne Harris in the
Doctor Who: Time Trips series of short stories. In spite of my general problems with short stories, I had high expectations since it was a story featuring my favourite incarnation of the Doctor (Three) and written by a respected author, but while it wasn't bad and there was nothing particularly wrong with either the pacing or the characterisation, it failed to really excite me. An average read, I suppose.
I also started
White Witch, Black Curse - the seventh in Kim Harrison's
The Hollows series - and am still not quite finished (although should get there today). Quite honestly, spending 12 days on it says less about the lack of reading time and more about my feelings about the book - I could have made time if I was actually enjoying it. So far, my absolute least favourite in the series and a real effort to make my way through. If this was the first or the second book in the series, I'd drop it (and the series); as I've enjoyed the first six books reasonably well and have a bunch of the ones following this one already bought, I felt I should at least finish it, in the hopes that the next books will again be a bit more to my liking.