Look! I'm totally managing to write a review (I'm seeing three more plays this weekend so... yes *fails forever at reviewing*)

( As You Like It @ Royal Shakespeare Theatre )

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... )

There are many posts I might make this evening involving ranting or complaining or panicking or existential angst (okay maybe less of that last one) but really none of them would help so instead I will point out, as several other people have, that Festivids 2012 is live and full of gorgeous, funny and moving vids and maybe even throw in some recs ( Read more... )

There were things I was going to post about tonight like Advent music and practising carols & Mum getting the giggles during our evening Advent readings and ALL THE TEA and how pretty ice is and all kinds of other things ( Read more... )

Assorted recs for... creative stuff :-P

Starting with a fic, a St Trinians fic (but don't stop reading!):

Genealogies of Silence
by language_escapes
These are the things we don't talk about. This is the story we never tell.This story comes with warnings for "Racism (hate crimes, racist language), mentions of rape (non-graphic) and rape aftermath ( Read more... )

So I'm going to go and see half of 66 Books tomorrow night (ALL night, 12 hours in total!) at Westminster Abbey... I say half it's the whole of what's happening at Westminster Abbey but the whole cycle of books takes 24 hours and sadly I couldn't get to either of the days they're doing those at the Bush Theatre ( Read more... )

It's raining and I'm trying to be grown up and do admin type things that need to be done and I'm BORED so I am going to take a break and give you a brain dump sort of a post. Aren't you lucky!

Firstly it turns out the 20th August is a pretty good day for celeb birthdays. We have 3 people I love quite a lot really: ( Amy Adams, Ben Barnes AND Andrew Garfield! )

Nearly at the end of our Christmas Bank Holidays... very sad except that I have a whole week more till I have to go back :-P ( Read more... )

Wow this afternoon is being endless. I've got stuff to do, fairly interesting stuff as well, but every time I look up only about 30 seconds has past *sighs*

Time for a tea break and while I'm drinking it have two fic recs:

1. Skybird by windswept_fic
   Arthur and Eames adopt a kid and raise that kid into Neal CaffreyYes really a White Collar/Inception crossover and ( Read more... )

I have had a glorious birthday so far :D

I've been given the piano score to Wicked and The Half by Simon Annan and CDs and books and TEA and chocolate and pink fizzy wine and a beautiful necklace and a very special HP pen and I feel very lucky ( Read more... )