Not only have a managed to obtain Inferno, the new novel by Dan Brown in German (my mom has been bugging me about this ever since it came out), but also the new Star Trek movie in what looks like watchable quality. A nice haul indeed, given that it's only lunch time ( Read more... )

I didn't want to ruin my illusions about my mother's normally decent (and rather similar to mine, I might add) taste in books. But she has since infected Sis with the Twilight!virus and now Sis is reading the dreaded thing as well. I've only had a glimpse of emeryboard's MSTs of the book for aforementioned reasons, but I think I can risk a look now ( Read more... )

The academic year has unofficially entered into its final phase with only exam prep and ECA's (or summary TMA's) left to complete. Final exams are in about six weeks and the last deadlines in about three weeks. It's going to be a very busy six weeks, I suspect. I started on the S104 ECA a few days ago, but I'm still working on the first question. ( Read more... )