So each week I try to remember to check out the iTunes iBooks store to see what the free book of the week is. I don't always grab them because they are invariably romances, and okay I like the occasional romance but wish they would cover some other genres as well ( Read more... )

Have only just mastered the art of dloading fics off AO3 as epubs to read through iBooks. Mostly sticking to the long or chaptered completed works which means I can read them all the way through even offline or if AO3 goes down. Very happy with this, as I just finished reading all 9 of Diane Duane's Young Wizard series that I bought as ebooks a few ( Read more... )

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
Copy this. Put an 'x' next to those you have read (watching a movie version doesn't count!) Tag Suggest other book nerds indulge in exposing their nerdiness. Commentary optional.

( Sparing your friendspage because I love you )

So I was taking a walk today, down by the river, listening to my mp3 player as I do, and I didn't pay too much attention when this maori guy passed me on his bicycle and ended up parking at a bench ahead of me, and saying 'hi' as I walked by. I gave a nod, and carried on. There were plenty of other people using the path, so I didn't feel too unsafe ( Read more... )

Just randomly decided to pick up this book from my bookshelf called "As the Story Goes" by Brian Matthews ( Read more... )

This entry is more for diea than anyone else, but hey....

Found Confessor at the library the other day, so I have now read the entire series. YAY! I am well satisfied, despite a bit of extraneous speechifying some characters seemed to be impelled to do. Sometimes I want to yell at the characters, or Terry Goodkind, that, y'know, hey, been reading this ( Read more... )

I suppose I should offer more than a month of silence. I've been retreating from social areas a bit. It's just how I've been feeling, the need to be introverted for a bit ( Read more... )

So, I really wanted to show this icon to a friend of mine only to discover that I haven't got it archived on my photobucket account, so, I couldn't. But I thought I'd ask if any of you might have it ( Read more... )