So it's the start of another month which means it's book review time.

• The Teleportation Accident- Ned Beauman
  
• Russian Roulette- Anthony Horowitz
  
• London Under- Peter Ackroyd
  
• Searching for Dragons- Patricia Wrede
  
• The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole*
  
• Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum- Richard Fortey
  

*read on kindle ( Read more... )

March books

1. Memory and Dream- Charles de Lint
   
2. Flappers and Philosophers & Tales of the Jazz Age- F. Scott Fitzgerald
   
3. Looking for Jake (and Other Stories)- China Mieville
   
4. Leviathan- Scott Westerfield
   
5. Adrienne and the Chalet School- Elinor Brent Dyer
   
6. Rebel- R.J. Anderson
   
7. The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun- JRR Tolkien
   
8. Looking Glass Wars: Arch Enemy- Frank ( Read more... )

It's only just 10am and so far I've been up to the attic 3 times and down to the cellar 4 times... good exercise I guess? But now time for a pause for tea :P

So last night I absolutely didn't stay up all night reading Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz *coughs ( Read more... )

Today's shiny things starting with the SHINIEST EVER

Samuel Barnett and Jamie Parker are going to play the leads in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead at the Chichester Festival ( Read more... )

Hello LJ, I have returned from my travels with MANY photographs and quite a few aches (why I thought horse riding AFTER my afternoon at the Blue Lagoon was a good idea I do not know) but definitely having had a good time. I'll probably share some pictures later but my camera is upstairs and I kind of can't move after said aches got combined with a ( Read more... )

See how I'm writing lots of gen incidentally! I can when I try *g*

( (Alex Rider series) Alex Rider, Jack Starbright- Mince Pies )

Before I start this post can I just make a quick PSA I have not watched Doctor Who yet. Everyone's being utterly fab with the lj-cuts so far but, well, I can quite see that will slip soon and anyway people may well assume I have and, well, I haven't.

ANYWAY

The point of this post is last year's books!

84 books read (that's about one every 4 days ( Read more... )

Have spent day vaguely attempting to bring some sort of order to my room... though it seems to have been at that place in the middle of any spring/autumn clean where it looks worse rather than better for a horribly long time now.

Oops?

In between, as breaks, I read the whole of Crocodile Tears (though being an Alex Rider book I think sometimes ( Read more... )

So it's that time of year and although assignments aren't out yet the Dear Yuletide Santa post is up so I suppose I ought to write a letter *g* (plus I love being nosey into other people's so I ought to share mine ( Read more... )

The sun went away :(

At least it was lovely yesterday evening as Mum and I wandered along the South Bank. She was complaining that when she worked in that area there was nowhere to eat and nowhere to sit and it was horrible and the South Bank now? Still one of my absolute favourite places in the world <3

We were in London to see Phédre with Helen ( Read more... )