the sort-of-bookcrossing shelf (it's not part of the actual bookcrossing network) here in the village continues to be exceptional. Someone's got seriously good taste hereabouts... Since I moved here, I've found Charles Stross' The Fuller Memorandum there (in English!!), which introduced me to the Laundry series - a series which pushes *all* the ( Read more... )

(Give me some idea of what you like, though, so I can decide what to rec!)

(print) SF(etc.) is my new (not so new) fandom ( Read more... )

will not do for you:

Help you to wake up gently.

What waking up and immediately putting on a DW audio book and going back to bed *will* do for you:

Make you have the most extraordinary Doctor-filled dreams (when you should be up and working). In my case, the scenario was partly lifted from Christopher Priest's Inverted World, which (sort of) is ( Read more... )

is that I always get tempted away from social things by books or comics (mostly books and comics, that is. Occasionally TV or games ( Read more... )

Still like it.

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Currently reading:

Neal Stephenson: Anathem (awesome)
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves (creepy)

Reading them in parallel because a) I want to make Anathem last longer and b) House of Leaves on its own would creep me out too badly.

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Regarding the flat:

- Washing machine broken again
- Hot water access decidedly

I've had a somewhat calmer week due to a lack of job offers. Then, a couple days ago, a whole bunch cropped up, all with the same due date, so I'm all busy now again. To prepare for one of the applications, I'm going to travel to the small town where my dad was born, tomorrow, to visit a museum there. This will be the first time I go there on my ( Read more... )

This, even more than my acute lack of time, explains my near-complete absence hereabouts. To load a single page I have to hit the refresh button dozens of times. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, often for hours at a time. When it does work, it's as slow as if we were back in 1998, on a 56k modem ( Read more... )

This - I think - is what is/will soon be on my Favourites Shelf at home. It's really just my Fat Favourites Shelf - as it lacks sides, only fat books can go up there; others would too easily fall over & fall off my bunk bed, which the shelf is really a part of. Though they're not all *that* fat, not all of them. Anyway. I'm sure I've forgotten one ( Read more... )

So, yesterday night I bought all the ingredients to make an exotic pureed vegetable soup. And, OF COURSE, when I came home I found out that OUR HAND BLENDER HAD JUST BROKEN.

WTF, Life? You wanna frell with me, Life? You really wanna frell with me?I have to write seven job applications in the next fourteen days. Joy. I mean, it's nice that there's ( Read more... )