( 1969-2012 )

Not enough, NEVER ENOUGH, but there were some good ones on the list! I am not going to chatter about favourites and disappointments, but if you would like my opinion on/are curious about any of the books listed here, PLEASE ASK ( Read more... )

Hello, flist, hello. Part of me is sure this is a disastrous idea given the amount of unread books languishing on my bookshelves, but part of me is always up for an excuse to acquire long lists of new books, so here we go ( Read more... )

Brace yourselves for a WHOLE LOTTA SHAKESPEARE (given my project to read his Complete Works this year), some forays into poetry, and fewer Booker Prize winners than in previous years; my read-through has been chugging along a lot more slowly.

Like last year I divided my favourites into 'most impressed with' and 'most enjoyed reading'.

( 123 including plays )

Resolution to Blog More With Words, here we go :) I'm not feeling the best at the moment, and my mother has introduced me to a book that I think will become one of my go-to books during sickness and insomnia: Stevie Smith's Novel on Yellow Paper. It's also got a lively, I Do What I Like, Thor! kind of writing style that's helpful to be exposed to ( Read more... )

Summer has kicked off its sandals and settled in! It's been around 35 (= 95F) here most days, with thunderstorms in the evenings, and it's been even hotter in Victoria and South Australia. 'Tis the season of total fire bans and most of the population rushing to the edge of the continent and splashing around in the sea ( Read more... )

Due to the study required for my final year of med school, I didn't read as many books as I did last year, and I did a lot more rereads of old favourites. A lot of the book choices were informed by my Booker Prize project (and my vague intention to move on to the Pulitzers next) and my desire to get some more seminal scifi under my belt. I also ( Read more... )

I JUST FINISHED MIRA GRANT'S DEADLINE.

CAN SOMEONE ELSE WHO'S READ IT PLEASE COME AND SCREAM IN A SPOILERISH FASHION AT ME IN COMMENTS.

I NEED TO PROCESS MY FEELINGS.

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

Today instead of studying medicine or writing, I read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers cover-to-cover ( Read more... )

My latest review (of Jean Plaidy's Daughter of Satan) is a satisfying and outraged takedown of a book I really wanted to like, but which unfortunately left me wanting to stab things. This icon is PERFECT, actually ( Read more... )