CALLING ALL LONDON BASED BOOK ENTHUSIAST ON MY FRIENDS LIST.

I know there are some Londoners on my friends list (and some on lemniciate’s), so what I would like to propose to all of you is: what do you think of starting a reading groupI’m not talking about an on-line one (I’ve always found that on-line book clubs never work as well as our good intentions ( Read more... )

Was too tired and lazy to do the meme yesterday, so here, have two days in one!

Day 07 - Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise

Can't pick one, so you get a list.

• Badly written romance for the sake of romance and very little else, where the characters have about as much chemistry as Bradley James and ( Read more... )

1.There is a Frenchman in my house.

A colleague of my dad's is staying with us for a couple of days. He's a nice buy guy even and made us the most amazing lunch today involving baking brioche with a sausage/salami thing inside it (from Lyon, aparently) + there was salad and white wine (he uh, didn't make the wine obvs.) and some smelly/yummy ( Read more... )

Day 04 - Your favorite book or series ever

Hold on to your butts, it's that time of meme again when I talk at you (once again) about my favourite book: Hallucinating Foucault. Goddamnit, one of these days someone on my flist is going to read it and thank me. So there. And I'm bloody tired of using my words to try and sell this book to everyone, so I ( Read more... )

Day 03 - The best book you've read in the last 12 months.

Hm. Hard to say... I've read some awesome books this year (not as many as I'd planned, but still...). But I think I'm going to have to go with the one I'm reading right now. It's an amazing book and I highly recommend it to everyone. It's called The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. I first ( Read more... )

 Day 02 - A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about.

Um. I don't tend to read many series any more. When I was a teenager they were all the rage in my life. I read all series ever written by Tamora Pierce and LJ Smith (the ones I could get a hold of) and Tanith Lee (yes, I shall mention her two days in a row), Harry Potter ( Read more... )

I've decided to do the 30 day book meme; I'm hoping it'll get me back on LJ! I've missed reading about how everyone is doing.  Also, my life is about books these days. I've read more books in the last month than I have for most of the year! (I'm so anal about it though, because they're mostly unpublished I can't add them to my Shelfari account. D: ( Read more... )

I've not been up to much since being home. I spent Friday and Saturday with a good friend of mine and her 10 month old son, Jamie. That little one is beyond cute; such a killer smile and very cheeky. He knows when he shouldn't be doing something, but does it anyway.  I love playing with him and huging him and smelling that baby smell (and I don't ( Read more... )

This book has made a very profound impression on me. I have wanted to read it for long while now and I am so glad I finally did.

I first came across it while doing a ‘recon’ for my internship with a publisher. I was asked to go to all the local Waterstones bookstores and scout out how they were displaying one of our books, if they were keeping ( Read more... )

I read Walk Two Moons years ago but it remains one of my all time favourite books. I’ve been trying to get my friends to read it ever since without much success. Mostly this is because I have a large group of friends who just don’t like reading but also because this is a ‘children’s book’ and they think it is somehow less valid. I assure you that ( Read more... )