I admit a little part of me would like there to be more Winnie the Pooh stories to read - and the ending of The House at Pooh Corner is still very sad. Would I read a sequel by another hand? I don't know. I don't think I'd pay for it.

Meanwhile, the radio tells me Eoin Colfer's sequel to The Hitch Hiker's Guide is long awaited. By whom? It always ( Read more... )

( XLI-XLIV: Michael Moorcock, The Cornelius Quartet )

( Steven Gould, Jumper: Griffin's Story )

The presence of T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations and Thom Gunn's The Sense of Movement on my 15 Books Meme list notes what poetry got to me first - although it was in a sense the lovesong and "On the Move" in particular, and now I'm more likely to go back to The Waste Land. I have all the Eliot and Gunn I want (although if I ever saw ( Read more... )

Curiously, today has been about books, and about reading ( Read more... )

( XXVII: Nunzio Defilippis and Christina Weir, Jumper: Jumpscars )

This has been doing the rounds on another social utility - so I thought I'd have a go. Name the fifteen books that will always stay with you - first thoughts, what you think of in fifteen minutes, that sort of thing.

I'm not entirely surprised that only two books by women appeared (The Teddy Robinson books should be there), and I was looking for ( Read more... )

( XVII: Barry Malzberg, Guernica Night (1974); XVII: Barry Malzberg, The Falling Astronauts (1971) )

IX: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Heritage of Hastur
X: Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
XI: J.G. Ballard, Crash
XII: Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing
XIII: Colin Dexter, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
XIV: Michael Moorcock, The Warlord of the Air
XV: Michael Moorcock, The Land Leviathan
XVI: Barry N. Malzberg, Beyond ApolloA catchup listing only - most of ( Read more... )

In my last job a student gave me a Jay and Silent Bob poster as a thank you - in fact a Bluntman and Chronic one. For many years it has been on my office wall, although it now needs remounting, and I'd misfiled the student's name. That's a disjunct there - I will have taught five hundred, maybe a thousand or more students since them, and they can't ( Read more... )