...which is very sad indeed, I find myself nonetheless sidetracked into a ramble by obits like this:


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Sooo, time to fess up: I wasn't just internetless for a week, I was away from home for two, too! Nobody will be surprised at this point that this year's vacation - the last vacation in which we were independent from the school holidays and their ludicrously raised prices for presumably a long time - took us to Britanny once more. Yes, it was good. ( Read more... )

so I'm glad I didn't commit myself to liveblogging about it. (I do hope I'll manage to do the finals on Saturday.)

I did not actually go to bed. But because it was a rather unexciting Semifinal, I couldn't tear my eyes off Robert Harris' Imperium until there was no more book left. It was RIVETING, I tell you, and I can't wait to get my hands on ( Read more... )

Vor ein paar Wochen hab ich ja mal diesen gut gemachten, zuverlässigen und ausdauernden Webcomic namens Stand Still, Stay Silent verlinkt. Wie es sich begibt, gibt es den ersten Band gerade mal wieder zu kaufen... aber leider sitzt der Versand (anders als die Autorin :() in Texas, und die Versandkosten sind mit $28,50 ein wenig abschreckend (das ( Read more... )

Yesterday we had a minor (or maybe major? I'm not yet sure) familial crisis because of... Shockheaded Peter.

For those of you who are blessed in not knowing the book, let me just say that in my personal opinion Shockheaded Peter should only be looked at by people who are also old enough to emotionally handle movies rated 16+. The only people who ( Read more... )

You know, the book covers for the most recent Temeraire novels might actually make me cave in and get myself an e-reader at last ( Read more... )

it has come to my attention (thank you, heartofoshun) that Captive Prince by freece is going to be published (professionally) by Penguin. Penguin!

I'm so happy for freece. Captive Prince is pretty much a demonstration of how good even a stigmatised genre like slash fiction can be (except that it's original, so I suppose it's "m/m erotica", not "slash"?). freece knows all the ( Read more... )

which I finally got to see yesterday. (Jörg got a crapload of BluRays for Christmas, including this one ( Read more... )

Yeah, April was meant to be Back to Business month, but it's also Catching Up with Stuff month more generally.

For instance, I was so busy writing and stamping and posting about stamping and posting about writing in March that I missed the entirety of The Return of the King on Mark Reads. And after that he moved on to The Princess Bride which I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I started reading The Hunger Games. (Yes, I know everybody who's cool has read them already. Cut me some slack, I was having hype issues. And name issues. And snob issues. OK?)

Also yesterday, there was nothing on TV after the Sherlock re-run, and in zapping, we came across Ich bin ein Star - holt mich hier raus!, one of the lowest lows ( Read more... )