Last night we had a combined birthday party for Lara and Alison, and I made them a cake. BEHOLD!

( cake! )

I've just discovered this book shop. It is very very bad and tempting and has books books books and THEN I spotted that they also have graphic novels.

Lord help me.

I may have purchased Ms Marvel: Lightning Storm and a Tesla biography, and in 17 days when this comes out I WILL OWN IT. Because, HELL YES DOMINO/WOLVERINE.I already foresee that this ( Read more... )

Oh baby, let's talk about the library book sale. Last year I got nothing of interest, but this year I jackpotted.

The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites
Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia
Encyclopedia of the Gods
Mythical Beasts
Minoan and Mycenaean ArtAn encyclopedia of Classical Music ( Read more... )

Today I finished the second book in the The Orphan's Tales series by Catherynne M Valente.

You guys. Oh, you guys. Read them if you like... uh, books. I guess it falls under fantasy, but it was so much more than that. Stories upon stories filled with monopods and firebirds and Djinn and saints and girls with stories written upon their eyelids. It ( Read more... )

I just finished reading The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente. It was utterly lovely and I may be awful at descriptions but Valente certainly isn't. It was completely different to anything I've ever read before though, and it was stories within stories within stories and filled with amazing myths and characters and ( Read more... )

I just found out they're making one of my favourite teen books - The Moth Diaries - into a movie, which makes me both excited and nervous. (Because, books into movies is often a terrible thing, but sometimes made of pure glory.) Lily Cole is going to be in it and I Did Not Want but now that I've seen a promo picture for it she actually looks so ( Read more... )

Alison just sent me a text that just said OH MY GOD. Which is not comforting and so I'm really hoping she just finished her book and is reacting to that. In which case, I cackle.

Ahaha, follow up text: THIS BOOK. HOLY FUCK. I AM FLAILING IN THE STAFF ROOM AND NOW I HAVE TO GO BACK TO WORK!Everyone loves dramatic books. (I'm reading Ovid's ( Read more... )

This weekend I'm going to get to see Neil Gaiman. It's only started really kicking in in the last day or so and now I'm sort of like !!! about it. NEIL. MEETING NEIL. I think I might faint, you guys. He's so ( Read more... )

Tonight we had our LFoD Christmas get together since the actual day didn't work for all of us. Which means early presents FTW ( Read more... )

I just finished reading John Green's Looking For Alaska, and it was completely gorgeous and wonderfully sad. There are few things better than a heartbreaking and beautiful novel. I've also read An Abundance of Katherines by him which was also fantastic. He writes the most real teenage characters. It's amazing. I love finding new authors to fawn ( Read more... )