Here's the skinny: the past three and a half weeks have been mostly exhausting and somewhat demoralising. This is not really my employer's fault. It's mostly my frelling complexes. Anyway, not terribly much fun has been had by me, so far - and what's a lot worse: I don't think I've made a terribly good impression, so far. I have two months to ( Read more... )

I think I've mentioned before that I love books that do really good world-building - this is one reason why I love Finder, for example. I'm currently reading two wonderful examples of the genre, and reading them very slowly, because I want to savour them.

One I have mentioned before: Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia. The landscapes in that are as ( Read more... )

Go here to marvel, and boggle, at the psychology of denial:

And then get angry.

And, no, I still can't tell you where to take that anger so as to use it productively, but I nevertheless think that having that anger is a Good Thing - a first step to something else ( Read more... )

(Sorry. I don't even watch Torchwood. But I sort of liked that ep title.)

But. Seriously. WTF is it with fic writers and killing Sam recently? Seems like it's the new big fad. Which is kind of odd - as well as kind of fitting - seeing as how the lad's *already* dead! I mean, is it even still possible for him to die in 1973? *g*

( Bit of meta about deathfic, angst, h/c etc. )

is that, after losing my great job with the German National Library this February, which ironically prevented me from reading much (well, from reading novels, anyway - it did* allow me to read more than 300 comics in the two years that I worked there. *g*), I have started to read prodigiously again. Well, relatively prodigiously, anway - ( Read more... )

Today I had a doctor's appointment which ended up a bit more painful than I had expected. So, on the way back home, I felt I'd earned the right to drop in at the art book bargain shop - where I found this... for 12 euros.

Yes, I bought it. As I said: I'd earned it! ;-) Plus, I hadn't used up my monthly books budget yet. (Now I have.)

well, I'm pretty certain I want to give Dostoievsky a chance, sometime soon, now that I've determined that Tolstoy is not quite my cup of tea ( Read more... )

Thank you, thank you, thank you, my Sisters, for giving me The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. It's *exactly* the kind of book I like - it has flaws, but it's *interesting*, original (surprisingly so, since many elements would appear to be lifted from Tolkien, at first sight), slightly monstrous. . . It contains a whole world ( Read more... )

(Well okay, not right now, 'cause right now I'm updating my LJ, but, you know what I mean ( Read more... )

every website should have one. Here's mine:

http://www.allabouthmpf.com/books.htm

Here's ankae's ( Read more... )