Poor lonely Livejournal. Sorry I haven't posted much this year - I have now got a shorter attention... ooh shiny.

Sorry, what was I saying? Oh yeah. I've mostly migrated to Twitter which in turn updates my Facebook. I also used to send tweets to LJ but that service died, and there wasn't much point trying to find another replacement for it ( Read more... )

Considering today is just another ordinary Friday that holds no religious or cultural significance to me, and also considering that I leave for New Zealand tomorrow morning at an obscenely early hour, I thought I would get my end-of-year post out of the way ( Read more... )

URGA MOTW

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceIt's been a long time coming - the sixth Harry Potter movie was supposed to come out last November but the studio decided they didn't want to compete against the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace" and also that a US Summer Release would probably net them more money, and the gap between movies 6 & 7 ( Read more... )

For the last few years, inspired by others (I can't remember who) I've posted - at the end of the year - a list of the various books, movies, tv shows and music that I've erstwhile "consumed" during the year ( Read more... )

Book review!

Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross ( Read more... )

A book review!

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman ( Read more... )

Wow, a book review. Haven't done one of these for a while

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

Last year, whilst looking for something to spend my Borders vouchers on, I asked friends for author recommendations. quuux recommended Charles Stross, a sci fi writer who I knew nothing about. So I bought some of his books :)

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So it's coming up on New Year's eve, so here's the media I've 'consumed' this year.

( Books )

The latest Discworld novel "Making Money", by Terry Pratchett, has just been released. I'm just over 100 pages in, but I just had to
share this quote.

( No real spoilers, but if you want to avoid the quote, don't duck behind this cut )

Stealing from someone else, I can't remember who, at the end of last year, I did a few posts with the year in review. For me, of course, my review was mostly about the 'media' I had 'consumed', that is - movies, tv, music and books ( Read more... )