A few months ago I spotted an opportunity that felt very special at the time and continues to feel very special now that it has been completed. I sent my name in to the people in charge of Jodi Picoult's career in the UK in the hope that I would be one of the few lucky people to have their name printed in her latest book, The Storyteller ( Read more... )

I’m so very good at walking into a book shop, finding a book that looks interesting and buying it. The number of unread books that I have on my shelves is pathetic. So when I bought The Night Circus recently I decided that I would not have another book sitting on my shelf, unread. The next book I bought alongside The Night Circus (thanks to a buy ( Read more... )

I think I've seen this list of books elsewhere but today I bring it to you from the journal of vampirelissy14.

( How many have you read? )

I've had a bit of a cold over the last few days, so lots of tissues have been on hand to keep my nose from causing too much of a problem. I've done a lot of walking though, which has been punishing my nose, or you could say that I helped work the cold out. I went for a random walk with my parents on Sunday because we often spend time together at ( Read more... )

I have been reading Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer for the last couple of weeks. Normally I read a book and sit there at the end with all these thoughts in my head. This book made me think heavily throughout, so much so that I just had to write some of them down. I've now decided that I'm going to attempt to read twelve ( Read more... )