I seem to have only posted twice in the last three-and-a-bit months. Oops. Nonetheless, we ait'n't dead ( Read more... )

Same rules about format as last time. I think it's fairly obvious which books are fiction and which are (at the very least intended as) non-fiction. If you want something, leave a comment and I'll put it aside (and strike it out on the list). Anything not claimed by the end of July will go to a charity shop, or booksforfree, or somewhere else ( Read more... )

There's now a Healthy Planet/Books for Free unit in the old carpet shop behind the Seacourt Tower on the Botley Road (just inside the Ringroad/A34). I don't know whether this is a replacement for, or supplement to, the one in the city centre (I don't get to Gloucester Green all that often), but there are an awful lot of books (mostly in heaps on ( Read more... )

ETA: These books have now all gone; some to new homes, others to Oxfam ( Read more... )

I've just added "The Meaning of Tingo" to the pile of books to be got rid of ( Read more... )

Sorry, revsolutions. Normally I don't really bother with these, but lets see how these work out, OK? ( They're not exactly huge life changes in any case. )

Urgh. I seem to have been rather quiet recently; this is mostly due to the new government policy of having the DWP make life really ridiculously difficult for disabled people*. I may rant about this more thoroughly later.

* for those who argue that this was also the previous government's policy. Well, yes, alright, you have a point. make life ( Read more... )

Sorry, meant to do this yesterday and then there was lots of sunbeam and the tigers all went to sleep in it.

Which book would I erase from history, if one had to go? While it might, as
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So, I offer a prospective LJ-meme for people to consider ( Read more... )

On the offchance anyone doesn't already know, Diana Wynne Jones died at the weekend, after a long battle with cancer. A national treasure, as Neil Gaiman rightly said*, who will be missed by many. (Obit. by Chris Priest; also one by Neil Gaiman, as pointed out by
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