I'd say I failed miserably at my reading goals last year, but that's not strictly speaking true. My initially goal was 99 books, 24 of which would be high fantasy books. In June, I upped my overall goal to 125 books. In the end I hit 107 books, 17 of which were high fantasy books. I'm pretty happy with that ( Read more... )

After the near ridiculous number of books I read last year, I've decided to set my GoodReads challenge at 99 books for 2014. That's more than I challenge myself to in 2013 and still less than I read in 2013, but I'm hoping to read fewer graphic novels, and I've also decided to challenge myself to read at least 24 high fantasy novels. The latter ( Read more... )

This year I've decided to do an additional challenge in addition to my GoodReads challenge. I've decided to challenge myself to read twenty-four dystopian books (inspired by this challenge at Blog of Erised. I also want to have a go at writing reviews for them. I have no doubt these will be terrible ( Read more... )

I've done a small friends cut. Dead accounts for the most part but a couple of others as well (either because I haven't commented on their journal or because they haven't commented on mine). I've removed a lot of comms as well.

Anyone who feels like removing me from their flist feel free to do so.

This year I'm going to be doing the 15000 Pages Challenge for a change. It will be interesting to see whether I read more books or less in getting the the total compared to previous challenges.

Where possible, I'll use the total page count from the physical copies of books. Where I'm reading ebooks, however, I'll take the page count from ( Read more... )

I spent this morning and early afternoon curled on the couch reading A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, so I didn't have the television or my computer on. As a consequence I missed the news breaking that Gary Speed had died ( Read more... )

Fair notice - I've started deleting fic.

Fanfiction.net is the first place being hit. The places that aren't burnishedspells or dracoandginny.com will go next. Not sure which of those two will go first after that.

I'm getting wibbly about the dress that I got for my cousin's wedding next Saturday. It's the dress I posted about [see here, also I am not pissed off it's now only £25. I'm not. Honest.]

Basically, I was talking about it at work this week and one of my friends gave me this look about the colour. Now I'm feeling unsure, so I want to open this up ( Read more... )

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They've shut The News of the World down.

OMG.

I didn't actually think it would happen. I mean, they're 168 year old newspaper, and the readership is huge. I mean, I wanted it to happen (wanted with a BURNING PASSION), but I didn't think it would actually happen. I just thought that they'd find a few more scapegoats ( Read more... )