Oh dear... posting isn't going so well really but that's a lot because life is continuing at a slightly terrifying pace! But I am reading and posting more frequently on twitter and I will come back here eventually ( Read more... )

A day late but here are May's books. I've started reading Hugo nominees so there will be a lot of them for the next couple of months- I counted all the short stories as one book but the novelettes & novellas I'm counting one each and reading all of except I'm not touching Stix Hiscock :-/ I'm aiming to read short stories, novelettes, novellas and ( Read more... )

Just in time for the first of October (it's been a bit of a day... though it finished with coming 6th in a quiz where our stated aim was the top half of the quiz and there were 22 teams!) ANYWAY reading this month has largely been Chinese... but also my introduction to the incredible Italo Calvino.

• A Dream of Red Mansions (volume 2) - Cao Xueqin & ( Read more... )

Life still feels pretty non-stop at the moment and it's not as if I haven't had any bits of time with nothing in the diary it's just that those all fill up with admin & Rainbow planning and all sorts of other things ( Read more... )

I haven't received my PIN to be able to nominate for the HUGO Awards yet but I have spent a little bit of this weekend thinking about who I might want to nominate and then being amused at myself because in terms of novels/novellas/short stories I've actually read about as many eligible books for the 1941 Retro Hugos as for the 2016 Hugos themselves ( Read more... )

I still have more reviews to write including one from last night (short version- there's a very talented pillar in Temple Church that I just saw do most of King John *rolls eyes*) but this is going to be a random things from Sarah's brain post instead ( Read more... )

How is it August? That can't possibly be a real thing. I need a spare week between today and tomorrow please (or the sudden ability to be WAY more organised than I currently am ( Read more... )

Every time I think about posting the LJ at the moment I realise I could be watching the Commonwealth Games instead and so I don't (sorry ( Read more... )

I'm on my last book for my Retro Hugo reading list and I'm half way through so I've actually just been and voted. I didn't quite read everything on the shortlists because I couldn't get hold of some of them but I read most of them and it's been... interesting. Science Fiction and fantasy from 1939 are just as you'd expect them (as Dad points out, ( Read more... )

HOW IS IT JULY *does not panic ( Read more... )