Squee of the day: OMG, they are making George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books into a TV series!

Double-squee of the day: OMGOMG, Sean Bean as Ned Stark?!?!?!

*facepalm* *I-am-sad* of the day: How I found out? Via an icon on LJ, posted in a different fandom community.

(Cross-posted to Facebook, kinda.)

... without providing any sort of actual textual analysis or supporting evidence, hence why it is a rant rather than anything useful :)

This started off as a reply to conradin's post (locked so I won't link to it here) about F/SF series with strong women protagonists. conradin mentioned two that came to mind, being the Empire series and Polgara in David Eddings ( Read more... )

The amazonfail saga continues... more reader/writer/customer reactions, more confused and contradictory PR reports both from official and unofficial sources, more blogger commentary and now some troll- antitroll explosions. (I haven't bothered with links for the rest, there are so many; but Jezebel has some good commentary and a link list ( Read more... )

Oh, Amazon. How can I justify ever buying from you again? Your blatantly discriminatory marketing policies are bad enough, but then attempting a corporate cover-up just shows us that your entire organisation is not to be trusted. Even if the books that have been amazonranked in the current fiasco get their sales rankings and visibility restored ( Read more... )

mavisgrizltits and Juz have been here for nearly the last week and we have been having much lovely relaxing catching-up time as well as occasionally venturing out to see the sights of Manchester (and organise Chinese visas). Huzzah for visitors!

And now, not one but TWO book memes!

From nicked_metalThe Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top ( Read more... )

I was going to do the book meme but recalled that I've already done it, so I won't repeat the exercise. I will note, however, that since then I have read four and a half of the books on that list that were unread at the time ( Read more... )

Today is obviously a good day for things arriving in the mail -- I've just been sent a free inspection copy (to keep!) of David DeGrazia's "Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status", which is exactly what I needed to support Chapter 3 of my dissertation, didn't have when I was writing it but will gleefully make use of in writing the ( Read more... )

( Some books wot I have read, and some wot I haven't )

So today I gave in and went to Borders to buy Harry Potter. I may also have accidentally bought Kushiel's Justice (against my principles because it's in hardback and won't match my paperbacks of the rest of the series, but I can't wait a year to read it!), A Feast for Crows and City of Bones, which I found by mistake when I was looking for a ( Read more... )

... only 50 papers to go ( Read more... )