Two new book reviews (I'm working on a backlog here), both of Booker Prize winners:
- The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
- Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer JhabvalaI'm on my last rotation before final exams (!!!) which is cardiology. I don't find it particularly thrilling but I'm getting slowly better at interpreting ECGs, and today I cardioverted someone ( Read more... )

Because I feel like one is due!

Med school
My long case exam was on Tuesday...I'm really not sure how I went, and look forward to two weeks of intermittent agonising about the damn thing before I find out whether or not I have to retake it. My final written exams are in five weeks, and as yet I'm not too worried about those.

JobsAt this stage it' ( Read more... )

I've read a little over a third of them, I think?

Feel free to recommend any of the unread ones if you think they'd be up my alley, too.

( Bold if you've read, italicize ones you fully intend to read, underline if it's a book/series you've read part but not all of. )

Two new book reviews:

- Mary Renault's The Friendly Young Ladies
- Ray Bradbury's The Halloween Tree

Right now I'm reading DWJ's Conrad's Fate, Kinglsey Amis's Booker Prize winner The Old Devils (my review of THAT is going to be mostly my long-in-coming rant about the Booker's love affair with the theme of middle-aged white people ~contemplating ( Read more... )

New book review: Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451.

I'm quite happy with this one. Although I made the mistake of going to TVTropes to look up the Manic Pixie Dream Girl page, and half an hour later I emerged via ISO Standard Urban Groceries, with a TVTropes headache and a craving for baguettes.

I've just started reading The Wise Man's Fear so the ( Read more... )

Dammit: kind of hooked on The Vampire Diaries now, to the extent that I might even try to buy the first season on DVD. What can I say, I do like a show that has such a cavalier approach to killing off its characters.

New book review up: Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days. Next on my list is meant to be Schindler's Ark but instead I'm rereading the ( Read more... )

1) Black Juice by Margo Lanagan

2) Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones

...meaning that my backlog is pretty much clear, hurrah! I don't know that I'll ever get around to reviewing Brave New World; I liked it, and I had opinions about it, but I'm not sure if they're organised or coherent enough for a proper post, and I'm currently too lazy to ( Read more... )

While Australian television screens every movie ever made that has even the slightest bearing on royalty, and Go Fug Yourself holds a Kate Middleton retrospective, my household has planned a Royal Wedding party that is a very (very) thinly veiled excuse to drink pink bubbly and make cakes and maybe even wear frocks, though it is much more likely we ( Read more... )

New book review: Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate.

The book I'm now lugging around hospital and reading during breaks is Brave New World, and I'm not very far in but I already have a collection of sentences around which I want to scribble sparkly hearts. I'm trying to read all of those seminal scifi books that I have been vaguely ( Read more... )

New book review: So Much For That by Lionel Shriver.Not much to talk about at the moment. Paediatrics is interesting but ugh, SO much to learn. I've been making lists in clinic and then coming home and looking up everything item by item in the textbook, and doing prereading for our surgical tutes, and trying to ignore the daunting length of the ( Read more... )