"The murmur was the kind of restrained and unenthusiastic applause one normally only hears in England on sleepy sunny Sunday afternoons, at village cricket matches."

Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere.

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Best description of applause I've read anywhere.

i said goodbye to a friend on msn at 1am, went to bed, picked up Northern Lights (where i'd picked up again at the part where Lyra first meets Iorek) and didn't go to sleep until 3:30 am because i had to finish the book.

lol, go me.

How long is the road to Babylon?
Three score years and ten.
Many have gone to Babylon
But few come back again.
If your feet are nimble and light
You can get there by candle-light.

-The Babylon Secret in "Deep Secret"

RIP, Ms Diana Wynne Jones.

i first read Fire and Hemlock

The Dalemark Quartet, Chrestomanci, Howl's Moving Castle, Deep Secret ( Read more... )

"In reading a novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally when we're done with it, we may find- if it's a good novel- that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a ( Read more... )

A long time ago, i read a book by Dianna Wynne Jones, called Fire and Hemlock.

Yesterday (at the hair salon), i read a book by Carolyn Parkhurst called The Dogs of Babel.

A similarity between the two books: The Ballad of Tam Linor as i put it: "the ultimate fight for a man between two women ( Read more... )