My Read 50 Books yearly challenge thingie has got off to a RUBBISH start, cause the second book I picked up this year is a slightly dense history that claims it is for lay-people as well as actual history people but I HAVE MY DOUBTS. It's lucky it's about something I'm dead keen on, as otherwise I'd be so easy to give up since it takes about AN ( Read more... )

So this week's Torchwood (this week's for me being last week's in the UK...episode 7, there that's less convoluted) was a pleasant surprise and by pleasant surprise I mean not unrelentingly shit, merely not very good. ( spoilers, dudes )

5 sequels (or continuations) you thought were better than the original.

1) The Revenge of Frankestein. As you may or may not know, dear flist, I love Peter Cushing e'er so slightly and am a bit of a fan of ye olde Hammer horror movies. One of my favourites is The Curse of Frankenstein, Hammer's first colour movie, made in 1957, a massive global ( Read more... )

I finally finished A Dance With Dragons yesterday, which took about ages as around page 700 I realised that there were about 200 hundred pages to go and not really a lot had happened and, probably, since not a lot had happened in the first 700 pages, not a lot was going to happen in the last 200. So I had a quick peak at reviews online and, lo, yes ( Read more... )

- Barbara Wright wears sensible shoes ( Read more... )

I think there should be a rule, a scientific rule of science, that people are entitled to no less than four weeks between colds or cold-like symptoms. In the interest of fairness. (And by fairness I mean me not going a-whoosh-you dozens of times a day shortly after I'd recovered from waking up in the morning unable to speak until I'd had a few ( Read more... )

I have A FEVER. I am very displeased. I think it's caused by sneezing; I assume sneezes can cause fevers. It bloody well better sod off ( Read more... )

I've almost finished a A Clash of Kings and foolishly just went and ordered the other two/three books of GRRM's monster so probably I am going to FAIL HORRIBLY at fifty books this year. Again. It's not my fault. If only author people would write nice SHORT BOOKS that are not vast doorstop series that end up being ridiculously more-ish which is ( Read more... )

The temperature is wrong; I cannot sleep. France lost at the football, I am informed, which I wouldn't care about except I want to win a big pile of sweeties so I actually do care, quite a lot. DAMN YOU FRANCE. Mexico beat them. Are Mexico any good? I don't know these things ( Read more... )

I've a hundred pages left in Outlander. I WILL FINISH IT. I will not be reading any more of Gabaldon's books, however, since I've not been Overly Thrilled with this one even though the author is clearly Madly In Love With Scotland. Which is very nice and quite endearing and managed to make a lot of Sod All Happening not that bad and stuff, and I ( Read more... )