You know you love a book when you realize you have to babysit tomorrow because your sister has an important court date. Yet, you still keep reading. And you know you have to get up quite early for the early rising spud but you still keep reading. Until natural light filters through the window and the book is finished. Then after ruminating on ( Read more... )

BAD NEWSYuh. She didn't go. She sucks. Actually they both do. There were two adults here, one of them could have watched the child while the other went. It's one thing. The last big favour I asked of my family was four years ago and surely I've earned some credit ever since the bubs were born? Even if they don't do it out of the goodness of ( Read more... )

I don't know what I'm going to say to my boss tomorrow. I feel so uncomfortable and he's made me feel guilty. Truth is I will confront someone but I feel uncomfortable spoiling relations too. I'll feel uncomfortable around him for the rest of the day no matter the outcome. I want to believe he'll do the right thing but I don't have much faith ( Read more... )

I caved and bought "Twilight" and "New Moon" today. Many on my Flist fangirl it, so do many of my colleagues. I've heard mixed things about "Eclipse" that make me VM-style nervous (i.e. I'll really love the "ship" of Edward/Bella and then want to kill someone by the time I finish the third installment). Not sure when or if I'll work myself up to ( Read more... )

What I've been reading in sixty seconds.

The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Buy it. Don't borrow it from a library or steal it from a friend. This woman DESERVES your money. Every scent of it. They could put the price up by ten bucks and I'd still pay for it. In fact, my mother told me I could have got it for a gold coin ( Read more... )

You know what I hate about high fantasy? Family tree paragraphs. Or sentences. Or paragraph long sentences. I know that most high fantasies tend to go to the past to create their worlds, with swords and middle english and old customs but YAWN. Whenever I reach a paragraph like "Blahdeblah son of Blahdibooo or the Blahlahlah Tribe in Blahville ( Read more... )

I don't read much non-fiction but a book caught my eye the other day on Australian history (doubly rare since I'm normally more interested in British history). I picked it up today when I finally finished Perfume and had nothing to read at work. So far it's freakin awesome. I had to tell somebody since no one I know in real life reads non- ( Read more... )

You know what's not suspenseful?

The voice of a past tense, first person narrative describing how their life was in peril, the cliffhanger of the chapter trembling on a final note of: OHMYGOD will they survive????? Tune in for the next chapter of 'Ways to State the Obvious.'

( The one thing I didn't like about 'Tomorrow, When The War Began' )