Spent today trawling through used bookshops. It actually wasn't how I was planning on spending my day, but I didn't really have a plan when I left the house, only that I was going to get some lunch and then, I dunno, go to Barnes and Noble? But then I went to a used bookshop I'd never been to instead! And then I went to four others after that ( Read more... )

Last month, someone on bookish reviewed YS Lee's The Agency: A Spy in the House. The description (young female protagonist in Victorian London who is a member of The Agency, an all-female spy, er, agency) interested me enough that I got it the next time I made an order from Amazon. After I got it, I quickly read it and then promptly ordered the second ( Read more... )

I finally finished the Percy Jackson series over the weekend. I have to say, it really improved as the series went on. The first two books were entertaining enough, but it didn't really pick up for me until The Titan's Curse. After that? Yeah, it was awesome. Every book was better than the last, the characters improved by leaps and bounds, and I ( Read more... )

Currently reading The Red Pyramid (aka, the newest book by that guy who wrote the Percy Jackson series), and, negl you guys, I keep imagining it as an anime in my head. It's like a mix of the mecha and magical girl genres. It's really quite funny, and I wish it would happen for reals because it would by hysterically awesome ( Read more... )

Earlier tonight, I watched my first Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movie.

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I can't. I just. I can't. I don't know if I can watch another one, seriously you guys, their Watson just hurts. I can't get around it, I really, really can't ( Read more... )

OH GOD I WANT HIS LIBRARY.

Someone mentioned Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler on the meme earlier, and it reminded me that the DW fic that I have always wanted to write, but knew I don't have the skills to actually do it any justice, is based on that book. It would start off with a future male companion of Thirteen's who finds and starts reading the Doctor's ( Read more... )

FAIL! You, flist, have failed me and I am very put out! Why didn't anyone tell me that the newest Naomi Novik has been out for days and days and weeks now? I had to discover this today while flipping through EW and I would never have known otherwise!

(In other words: squeee new Temeraire and Laurence to read! Hurrah!)

Also, I watched Mama Mia! ( Read more... )

- Doctor Who friending meme over on lizbee's journal. Go! Shoo! :D

-This makes me a happy J. Hurrah for traditional animation! :D

-So I got to the part in Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic where Ceaser is killed, and it goes, "And Brutus is known to be an honorable man" and I just winced, yo ( Read more... )

I've been reading Tom Holland's Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic off and on over the past couple of weeks, and last night, while reading this line: "Caeser himself, stationed at Ravenna with the 13th Legion ( Read more... )