If you feel up for it...
( Exceedingly Lonnnng Book Post )

Another book meme, from meltintall3. A long time in the writing!
( Bookish Secrets... )

That was the title of one of my early reading lists. Heh.
So here is the book meme I mentioned in my last post. I'm filling it in just prior to midnight, so it's going to be as loose and informal as I ever get online... Expect grammar failings.

What is your favorite drink while reading?
Coffee with a lot of milk.
( Not before bed, though. )

I found this end-of-year reading report meme on birdienl's journal, though apparently it originated at blog The Perpetual Page-Turner.
So with the thanks out of the way, I shall dive into this fun overview of my 2011 reading experiences! *grabs book notebook*

( Read more... at your own risk )

We-ell, to begin with it's next to impossible for me to choose a favorite book. But one of my top five (outside of the Bible) has got to be The Lantern Bearers, by Rosemary Sutcliff:

"Aquila halted on the edge of the hanging woods, looking down."  Rather a disappointing first line, all things considered.  But it really is a great book. Every ( Read more... )

Being still rather new to LJ, I'm not too sure what a picspam entails other than a lot of photos.  So this is a big ol' picspam post from myself! Select whichever cut sounds most appealing. (Don't worry, all images larger than 100x100px have added as links)

( caprine images )

  The above line is a quote from an original description of Prospero's costume in Shakespeare's The Tempest.  Delightful, hm?

In other news, I just received Rosemary Sutcliff's The Shield Ring on inter-library loan.  I'm looking forward to it - too much so, I suspect. I keep telling myself that it can't be as good as The Eagle of the Ninth, ( Read more... )