Funny story: I got talking to a couple of door-to-door Jehova's Witnesses a little while ago, and had a very interesting (and only occasionally alarming; girls aren't allowed to go to the advanced schools boys are, and this is somehow considered equal?) conversation with them. I told them that I wasn't exactly likely to find religion, but I ended ( Read more... )

DAYBREAKERS. Oh my goodness gracious, could that movie have honestly been any better? The vampires are the most kickass of their kind I've seen in ages. The characters are relatable. The world is pretty well-thought-out. The plot had me hooked. The visuals were - look, why are you still listening to me talk about how great everything was? You ( Read more... )

Recent accomplishments ( Read more... )

Caz's journal, Wednesday eleventh March 2009 ( Read more... )

Silence of the Lambs: Women have no sense of self-preservation. Characters wish that light-switches had been invented so that they could not blunder about in the dark, hyperventilating-- oh, wait. Hannibal Fucking Lecter is the most awesome person in the world ever.

Red Dragon: Francis Dolarhyde has Issues. Hannibal Fucking Lecter and Will "Is Hot ( Read more... )

Finished Touched By The Devil, aka That One Book About Psychopathy That I Mentioned A Little While Ago. It's not great ( Read more... )

Well, I haven’t exactly got a wide spectrum of books that I read. There’s the steadfast triad of Harry Potter, Discworld and LotR, and then there’s fanfiction, and then… um… not a lot else. Which, if I am to study lit and creative writing at uni, simply will not do. Therefore! I’ve been picking books by authors I’ve never heard of, outside of ( Read more... )

Reviewing: “The Swan Kingdom” by Zoe Marriott
Chapter: One.
Rating: A bit dragging and pointless.

( That smell? That's the infodumps. )

Reviewing: “The Swan Kingdom” by Zoe Marriott
Chapters: Prologue.
Rating: Not half bad.

( ‘Alex and the Enaid’… sounds like an Enid Blyton book )

So yeah, our school got sent a bunch of new books from Young Writers' Magazine, with a request that (and I quote) our "splendid bunch" of students read and review them for the magazine, with the hope of it being an ongoing feature. Huzzah! :D Needless to say, I got in on the ground floor, snagging the only fantasy book there which I hadn't read ( ( Read more... )