What book are you currently reading?
1) Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan.
2) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling.

How far in are you?
1) 146 of 310 pages
2) 210 of 223 pages

What's it about?
1) 2 teenage boys meet by chance in a place neither of them are supposed to be and find they have the same name.
2) ( Read more... )

What book are you currently reading?
One Day by David Nicholls.

How far in are you?
305 pages of 435.

What's it about?
2 friends, Dexter and Emma, and their lives over the course of 20 years based on just one day of the year: July 15th.

Are you enjoying it?
Yes, I really am. I didn't see the movie but I've wanted to read this book for a long time. I love ( Read more... )

What book are you currently reading?
The Sword of Albion by Mark Chadbourn. Published as The Silver Skull in the U.S.

How far in are you?
176 pages of 542.

What's it about?
England is under constant threat from Spain but what the majority of the country don't know is that they face war on another front: from the Unseelie Court of malicious faerie folk. ( Read more... )

Taken from book_memes.

What book are you currently reading?
The Rogue by Trudi Canavan

How far in are you?
267 pages of 495.

What's it about?
This is the second in the Traitor Spy trilogy (the sequel series to Canavan's hugely popular Black Magician trilogy), and has a number of point of view characters and plot lines, including tracking down the rogue magician in ( Read more... )

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...and this is my feeble attempt to climb back up.

I've been M.I.A. for a while now. Blame work and uni. I do.

This post isn't anything substantial but I really wanted to post something here. So, of course, I come bearing a (mini-) meme. It's taken from book_memes and they do this every month on the 10th. Basically it's an effort to see what everyone's reading ( Read more... )

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You remember that book you hated studying in school? The one you had to carry around in you bag for 3 months, trying to get through it and analysing it to death every English class? You probably wrote a pretty shoddy essay on it, an essay which no doubt featured ( Read more... )

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Looking around my journal, you might be inclined to think that I like The Vampire Diaries. I hate to break it to you, but you'd be wrong. I don't like The Vampire Diaries.

I'm obsessed with The Vampire Diaries.

Well, let me clarify: I'm obsessed with The Vampire ( Read more... )

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 It’s 1926 and the Depression is claiming its victims every day. Hannah and her mother Miriam, who have lived with Hannah’s uncle and aunt since her father died, have never really been close. As Hannah develops into a beautiful young woman, so Miriam’s jealousy ( Read more... )