Is it ironic or appropriate that in a book supposedly about Autism, I should notice this on the copyright page?:

Mark Haddon has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work…

Unless she’s adopted a pen-mugshot to go with that pen-name.

Good book though.

Americans are being fingerprinted at Brazilian airports, like Brazilians are in the USA. The queue for Americans at GIG, Rio, was 8 hours long on Monday, and that’s for everybody, including the crew.

Brazil is thus playing the tit-for-tat strategy, but I suspect the USA is using always-defect nowadays.