I don't often talk about what I'm reading, which may or may not be a good thing ( Read more... )

I love having an eReader, and I'm 85% through reading Villette by one of the Bronte's.  sheesh those girls were repressed, with rampaging emotions.  I'm sure she must have been paid by the word cos it's pretty verbose.  In fact I got to the point of scanning & skipping some descriptive paragraphs cos they didn't help. With some editing it would be ( Read more... )

I didn't know that May is Zombie Awareness Month, (http://www.zombieresearch.org/awareness.html)  until reading a news article on a Zombie proof house.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/a-zombie-proof-house-thats-using-the-old-noodle/story-e6frfro0-1226055251261

What's even more co-incidental is that last night I got the book World War Z: An Oral ( Read more... )

Foolishly I have 2 books started, so I'd better finish one & then read the other.  Although Ripley offered to lend me any or all of them (though not all at once), a said that I was better off borrowing from the library cos the time deadline of returning them was added motivation to get through them.  Really need to borrow some more too, though the ( Read more... )

I remember the quizlet thing that gave me a rating of  geeky nerd queen , or some such thing.  I think that I just proved it right.

I created a spreadsheet for Terry Pratchett's books.  Looked up the catalogues of both libriaries I'm a member of, and plotted which category JF, YAPB, AF, AFLP, etc and whether the books were in the stacks, available, ( Read more... )

aiy.  Well this morning I got to the bus stop & I'd lost my specs.  I'd hung out a load of washing this morning, and then put something into the Grotto, and thence to the bus stop.  Up to that point I thought my specs were on top of my head.  Nope, they started out that way.  I didn't want to be late for work & I assumed I'd find the specs when I ( Read more... )

www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781851776160/Underwear

I'm all excited about a new book in V&A's fashion in detail series .... and it's on underwear. Publishing date is October 2010, and I think I'll be pre-ordering this one :-)

I've almost finished reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies ... it's amusing. Though the illustrator was clearly thinking of ( Read more... )

on Saturday while catching up with my friend C, after the film was finished we we went to the bookshop over the road from the cinema.  She asked what I was reading and i told her. A Voyage Long & Strange: Rediscovering the New World, about the different arrivals in america before the pilgrims plonked themselves at Plymouth Rock.  And there was more ( Read more... )

Colour me numbskull.

In the past 5 weeks I've had power outages & more power dips/spikes than I can count and I still didn't get me a surge protector.  My Hard drive recorder packed it in last night.  It kept freezing failing to send a signal to my TV.  And given that my TV is close to 8 years old and is a budget, budget brand at first I thought it ( Read more... )

I finished La Cucina  by Lily Prior last night on the way home. I enjoyed it, and it wasn't exactly long.  Probably just as well early in the mornings.  Though I had to stop reading cos I was feeling too squiffy.

Today I started Singularity Sky by Charles Stross.  described as a post-singularity space opera.  And only at lunchtime did it track my ( Read more... )