I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I recently fell in love with a cook book :/ By Jamie Oliver, of all people. It's his newest one, Jamie at Home. I'm a sucker for pretty cook books, so I looked through it, and kept exclaiming: Crumble! Pie! Look at that landscape! More pie!, which got me weird looks from my co-workers. So I took the book home to ( Read more... )

I'm at work and I'm SO TIRED. D: Now I know what people where talking about when they said NaNo drains the strength from you. And the spelling skills! It took me four tries to get 'strength' right. 10 minutes til closing time, which means at the most 20 minutes til Starbucks. Hold on!

***I just finished reading Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. It's much ( Read more... )

Everyone go here and vote for Neil Gaiman's journal for Best Literature Blog for the 2007 weblog awards.
And if you don't know Neil Gaiman, shame on you. :P Go and read Neverwhere now. (Or get down to your local cinema and watch Stardust.) Anyway, VOTE!

And I'm going back to my novel now.

Kaiser Chiefs gig tonight! I love that they're coming to Winterthur, not Zurich. I live 15 minutes aways from Winterthur. :D

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Nooooo whyyy? :(

Sci-Fi-London Film Festival

Tuesday, UCL Bloomsbury Theatre -- 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH

On Tuesday 25 September we are really excited to be presenting two great writers in conversation together. Susanna Clarke, author of the Hugo Award-winning novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will be talking with Neil Gaiman about ( Read more... )

I was sitting in the train this afternoon, reading (Half-Blood Prince), when I looked up and read the headline of a newspaper someone opposite me was reading: "Harry Potter Leaked! [A HUGE SPOILER]!" Or something along those lines ( Read more... )

My grandmother came over today and said she had a box of old books that belonged to my grandfather. She wondered if my best friend might want them? Otherwise she'd throw them out ( Read more... )

I am intrigued by this: BookCrossing.com

Apparently, a book has been "released" at the train station near where I work. I'll go and see if I can find it on Monday :D

Woohoo!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (WTF kind of name is that for a children's book?) will be released on July 21st, 2007.A day before my birthday! :D I hope it's better than book 6, but JK Rowling has said a few times that the last two books are like two halves of the same book, I'm a bit worries that the last book will carry on in that ( Read more... )