Ongoing

I was on the third floor in a meeting for today's 5.0 aftershock (shallow and close to the city - knocked out power for thirty minutes or so). I did end up heading for the doorframe (with one of the other meeting members - the rest milled around, while one slightly confused soul went and stood next to the window) but I went there fairly slowly and, really, this whole series of quakes have pretty much suppressed my finely honed Wellington childhood instincts of leaping for the doorframe in any tremor. This is partly because Civil Defence says in most modern houses it's better to stay put, and partly because I am finally living in a place with mainly built in shelving, so staying put does not involve various 1.8 metre bookcases descending on me. Now my instinctive reaction is to check Twitter and Geonet... unfortunately this morning's shock knocked out the cellphone towers for a bit as well.

So. Books not currently in my possession that I have read:

( This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart. )

( This Way Up, Lindsay Wood. )

( Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, Dav Pilkey; plus three additional Captain Underpants books with equally lengthy titles. )