Lists are fun. I enjoy making lists for all sorts of things. I group lists into categories, I colour-code them, I cross things off on them and get this awesome feeling of satisfaction when I do so... lists are just awesome! And then reading lists... well those are just even MORE awesome!

So because all the cool kids are doing it, and because I ( Read more... )

I never thought it was possible, but I think I may own too many books! I'm one of those people who cherishes her books, and hoards them into every nook and cranny available. Even if I borrow a book from the library, I've been known to go out and purchase a copy if I REALLY loved it, or connected with it. Over the years, my local bookstore has made ( Read more... )

I have that song in my head. Seriously, why is a comptine (erm... a nursery rhyme?) stuck in my head? Where did it come from? I've tried listening to different things, yet this one still keeps coming back. Why!?!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...
Violette, violette!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...
Violette à bicyclette!

Anyway, while I'm busy singing numbers, 5 random ( Read more... )

So, newsboyhat  claims that some of my listed books aren't 'eligible' for the Gaps project because they are either really short, were published too recently, or I would have read them anyway (in most cases because they are recent-ish YA/fantasy). She described them as "books you don't need a gaps list to start".  She says these books can't count towards the ( Read more... )

The concept: Make a list of 100 books you haven't read, and set yourself a goal (like 5 years) during which to read them all (or a certain percentage of them). Let's face it, we all have books we think we should have read or that we keep putting off... this is the time to fix that and fill in the gaps!

My list: My list includes 100 books that I have ( Read more... )

Dear Elizabeth Gaskell,

HOW COULD YOU?!?!

915 pages of reading, and I don't even get the goodbye proposal in the rain, like in the BBC film version? I had been looking forward to that scene... Roger about to get into his carriage, Molly running out to him! What do I get instead... a rather anticlimactic ending if I do say so! Useless blabla about ( Read more... )