Since I'm awake at a completely ungodly hour and can't get back to sleep.

Bought and read Heir To Sevenwaters, the new Juliet Marillier novel, all of yesterday. Because quite awesomely, A&R underneath Town Hall is the only bookshop in the city that opens before all the others and stocks it. I felt a bit disloyal to my Borders but since I had a ( Read more... )

Mmm. Worked a nice short day today which was a great change ( Read more... )

So I finished Voices by Ursula (legend) Le Guin last night. I wish I had read it in one sitting but either writing or work or the combination of both has meant my reading habits have become hideously irregular over the past few weeks ( Read more... )

On Friday I bought the latest Juliet Marillier novel, Cybele's Secret.

Well, because I originally wanted to replace my copy of Earthsea but the stupid closet of a Dymocks store in Worlds Square actually Didn't Have It. The counter guy was as outraged as I was. Well, I think he was. I can never look him in the eye cos he looks too much like McAvoy ( Read more... )

I forgot to say:

*** that I'm so so very glad I bought the Batman Forever soundtrack ( ... and watch the world devour ... )

The Andre & Oscar bio didn't hold my interest very long, a bit too salacious and sensationalist. And eventually I remembered "er, dri, how many Wilde bios have you read? You know all this and you're not particularly interested in Gide." So cast that aside and this morning picked up the book on writers and their faiths. Literary Converts: Spiritual ( Read more... )

Nicked from the divine
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Okay, seriously pissed now!

As in off, not drunk.

Let me properly lay out the sequence of events here. ( Talk about your sliding doors, Gwynnie love. )

Inadequacy and inferiority.

I've never actually felt inferior to the writers I admire. Which must say a hell of a lot about my arrogance and delusions of grandeur, I realise, but let's not go there right now.

( Wanking with wire? )

Once in that court he had felt himself to be a word spoken by the sunlight. Now the darkness also had spoken: a word that could not be unsaid.

- p.68, A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin ( Read more... )