So things are pretty low key this weekend. John and I tried going out for a winter walk, but despite the warm-up it's slippy and icy, so we're not even going to do that.

I'm sitting here instead reading Silver Birch books. The Silver Birch Award is a special honour given to Canadian writers of children's books. Ten fiction and ten non-fiction books ( Read more... )

Well, I've had my Kindle e-reader for about a month now and I'm still completely enamoured of it. I carry it with me everywhere- John makes fun of me. Even in four weeks I can see how drastically it's adjusting my reading habits ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned before I've been following a journal called Mark Reads for the last six months or so. Mark chooses books to read and then reviews them chapter by chapter. So far he's only reviewed youth novels- the Twilight series, the Harry Potter books and presently The Hunger Games- but he's recently announced that he's going to branch out ( Read more... )

Let me add my congratulations along with everyone else to Seanan McGuire (filker and writer extraordinaire), who won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards last night!!! Whooooo, Seanan, AMAAAAZZZING ( Read more... )

I'm not very good at book reports (I assign them, I don't write them), so let's call this a recommendation, instead.

When I heard cadhla (under the pen name Mira Grant) was writing a zombie book trilogy I knew she was writing way out of my territory. I love Seanan's urban fantasies and songs and poetry and blogs, but I am not a fan of horror literature ( Read more... )

Since reading Seanan McGuire's "Rosemary and Rue" recently I find I've had urban fantasy on the mind. Reality is that I really haven't read all that much urban fantasy over time and I find myself interested in checking some out. When I was standing at a new and a used bookstore this weekend looking at the fantasy shelves I was kind of overwhelmed ( Read more... )

So, my first wallowing in sentimentality today was when I came home and pulled this out of my mailbox, because, ahhh, Beatles! And Lennon and McCartney... and they both look so beautiful and somehow you never forget your first loves even if I was ten years too young to experience the first blooming of Beatlemania. I've experienced every ebb and ( Read more... )

Haven't written much in my journal recently just 'cause I haven't really been doing all that much. Let's see what I've been up to ( Read more... )

The June 8th "Evening With Neil Gaiman" presentation being held as part of Toronto's Luminato Festival this year sold out two minutes after they went on sale yesterday at 10:00 am ( Read more... )

Just curious...

What with John and I planning to go to L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland this summer, the confirmed site of a Viking village, I've found myself becoming interested in Viking culture and mythology. I'd like to read up some before going to Newfoundland. I will admit to knowing extremely little about Vikings, except, of course, the ( Read more... )