It's all about the shiny
Sep. 23rd, 2005 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pbrayPackage from Amazon.Com arrived yesterday with two lovely books: Ship by Brian Lavery and The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Richard Woodman.
The Ship book was on sale, and it's just what I hoped for, full of lovely pictures. And as long as I was ordering, I picked up the Richard Woodman title. I'd already borrowed it a couple of times from the local library, so I knew I wanted it.
Mmmm. Shiny new reference books. Happiness.
Let's set aside the fact that I have at least eight other naval history titles, including two already bought for the current series I'm working on. The point of this is that most of my books were related to the era of Nelson's Navy (late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries) so it was a perfect excuse to buy more.
Did I mention that research books were tax deductible? It's right up there on my top 10 list of good things about being an author.
The Ship book was on sale, and it's just what I hoped for, full of lovely pictures. And as long as I was ordering, I picked up the Richard Woodman title. I'd already borrowed it a couple of times from the local library, so I knew I wanted it.
Mmmm. Shiny new reference books. Happiness.
Let's set aside the fact that I have at least eight other naval history titles, including two already bought for the current series I'm working on. The point of this is that most of my books were related to the era of Nelson's Navy (late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries) so it was a perfect excuse to buy more.
Did I mention that research books were tax deductible? It's right up there on my top 10 list of good things about being an author.
