I have learnt from my book poll (hey, more people do my book poll - I like to look at the stats!) that I have accidentally read quite an obscure selection of books this year. I've been broadening my YA horizons and have started following a lot of authors on Twitter, so I get recs from what they're talking about. I'm still caning the vampire and ( Read more... )

So I've decided to set myself various goals in my reading this year. Rather than just picking up any old rubbish at the library/charity shop/Amazon I am going to attempt to read in more diverse genres and cultures etc etc so I've found a few reading challenges on blogs and suchlike and am going to try and complete them. I'm also going to try to ( Read more... )

Woo, I booked my plane tickets to France last night! Family Christmas ftw. Jillo's lung has returned to full capacity, but if it happens again then she won't be able to fly by Christmas so she's basically going to be sitting on her bum doing nothing for the next 2 months. Yesterday she got a lift from work to where her car was parked - she's going ( Read more... )

Good lord I'm bored (ooh, and I'm also a poet who didn't know it) and I don't have any work to do. Also I am not in the right frame of mind for fic reading. Boo. I bought my robot shoes the other day though, so that's keeping me positive! Not that I'll probably get them for ages. Stupid postal strikes ( Read more... )

Things we have learned this week: you can get BT Broadband for free for about 9 months. On Tuesday our internet stopped working so we rang up to see what the problem was. Turns out, we had been cut off for not paying. Who knew? After some investigation, it appears the direct debit spontaneously cancelled itself in about December and we have managed ( Read more... )

Post post post. Sorry for spamming, but I can never resist a book-based meme! I stole it from the book of faces, so I've redone the instructions slightly.

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Look at the list and bold those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

( I'll cut it because I love you )

OMG, I'm so excited! For ages I've been (admittedly half-heartedly) looking for a book and its sequels that I used to love when I was younger - I got the first two of three out of the library on numerous occasions but I was completely unable to remember the author or the titles. Well, I decided to reread Dear Nobody today and saw that the list of " ( Read more... )

A new book meme (you know I love doing these ( Read more... )

♥ So I went running this morning in a bid to be able to run the whole of my 5k and do it in under ...25(?) minutes. (My targets may change as we get nearer, depends on how dedicated I am). I think I did about 3.5k in 23 minutes, so that wasn't too bad - no stopping/walking involved, either. Well, except when I had to stop to tie my shoe, but I ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters and I'm still not entirely sure (after 752 pages) if I liked it or not. Anyone else read it and like to venture an opinion? I think I'll read the second one when it's out, though.