So, someone gave me Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones ("The multi-award winning international bestseller") at some point, and I picked it up and read it recently.

( I guess I should put the rest under cut in case anyone cares about spoilers )

I'm here, I'm reading LJ, I'm trying to get my life in order, and at some point I will feel competent to start posting about something of substance again ( Read more... )

[From Ingridients]

Quick comments on six books I've read the last six months or so, and one movie. No major spoilers.

( E = mc², The Silver Pigs, The Kindness of Strangers, Persepolis, V for Vendetta, The Jane Austen Bookclub, A Crack in the Edge of the World )

[From Ingridients]

It's the silly crazy season, but I did want to mention that I'd finished Of two minds: The growing disorder in American Psychiatry by T.M. Luhrmann.
( I'm pretty sure it was someone on lj who pointed me at this book, thanks to whoever it was )

I've been dobbed in by alecto23 and I think this is probably harmless enough.

( I can't promise it'll be interesting )