I've just discovered the Autosummarise feature in Word. I've never had a use for it before now, but I've been fiddling with things and I have discovered that I'm very easily amused.

I told it to condense all 100,067 words of my NaNo story, Perfect Circle into 100 words and I got the following:
"Liv." "Liv." Liv nodded. Liv sighed. "Stephen!" ( Read more... )

I would've posted this the other day, but I had the epic lambing post to write up (the article about it, which is about 15,000 words shorter, is in the paper today! I'm yet to see a copy of it myself).

Anyway...

( Book 37 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling )

I've still got to do a post about lambing, but I'll get my bookish post out the way first (mainly because I've not finished organising the lambing pictures yet).

( Book 35 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling )

I meant to do this the other day after I finished the Lynda La Plante book, but it slipped my mind and since then I've started (and finished) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

So here goes.

( Book 33 of 2010 - Deadly Intent - Lynda La Plante )

One of the things I love most about the book trees is the fact that I'm being introduced to so many books that I might not otherwise have had a chance to read ( Read more... )

Finished the last two Ox-Tales books. Stupidly left one of them at home which means that it's slightly tricky to remember exactly which stories were my favourites. I may have to go back and edit this one to fix that.

( Book 29 of 2010 - Ox-Tales: Fire - Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastien Faulks, John le Carre, Xiaolu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver, Jeanette Winterson )

I have been a reading machine this weekend! Hopefully I'll have time to write up all of these.

( Book 26 of 2010 - The Red Dahlia - Lynda La Plante )

Yesterday was a very good day for reading.

( Book 25 of 2010 - Ox-Tales: Earth - Rose Tremain, Jonathan Coe, Marti Leimbach, Kate Atkinson, Ian Rankin, Marina Lewycka, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Buckley, Nicholas Shakespeare )

I've been feeling terribly guilty because I have waited for ages to read this month's book tree book. I had been working my way through Tolkien's books, I've got a couple of other series that I'm wanting to work my way through next, I was waiting for book club books to arrive and so rather than start another series when I was in the middle of two ( Read more... )

This was the book I was most looking forward to reading this year, and at the same time, the most nervous about.

( Book 23 of 2010 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien )