How are you celebrating New Year's Eve? I'm off to a party that was arranged a couple of weeks ago where it was decided a fun theme would be 'national dress' - oh why!?! Cue stereotypes ( Read more... )

The great thing about setting goals is that wonderful feeling of achievement you get when you can tick something off your list because you've done it when you said you were going to do it ( Read more... )

I got to the museum in plenty of time on Wednesday to take over the evening storytelling shift while David went off to appear in Wuthering Heights. Five minutes later, my first audience came in ( Read more... )

I got home from the BSFA Awards discussion panel last night, groggy from train snooze, fuzzy from red wine, and full of the wibbles you get after the rush of adrenalin has died down, and the slightly shaky feeling from thinking that I may, just may have heaped a whole bucketload of tee-ar-uh-double-burr-ull-TRUBBLE on my head through admitting to ( Read more... )

Book meme! (via Ian Sales’s website
http://iansales.com/ ) Here are the 25 titles chosen for 2012 World Book NightDo the usual: bold for read, italics for owned but unread. And, given the multimedia nature of our cultural landscape, asterisk those with film or television adaptations you have ( Read more... )

From iansales

Bold if you've read it; italicise if it's on the TBR.

1 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3 The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
4 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
5 The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
6 The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
7 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
8 Wuthering ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went off to that there London for a most marvellous press party at the Cittie of Yorke for Newcon Press's 5th birthday party, combined with the launch of the marvellous Liz Williams's new collection, Glass of Shadow. It looks so pretty (it has a rare cover by the fantastic Anne Sudworth, featuring Sooty the cat!) and I can't wait to ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I briefly faced the prospect of celebrating N's birthday with absolutely no money whatsoever - not even enough to buy milk. But then the rent came through - huzzah ( Read more... )