( Another Book Meme! )

Swiped this with impunity from gehayi.

Edit (9 April 2005, 13:03): Wow. You people are good! Or you know me too well. Some combination thereof.

( Memeish Goodness )

Feeling *so* much better ( Read more... )

So, the rules are, "take the closest book to you, look at page 123, and post the fifth sentence on that page. Don't look around for the coolest book nearby, just take the CLOSEST."Well ( Read more... )

Books = crack

The US Postal Service stole more than half of what Atropos sent me for my birthday.

I am very truly vexed. Not only did it arrive three weeks late, more than half of it is missing?

WTF?

And my back hurts, but that's incidental.

I'm going to make some tea. Calm myself down a bit.

ETA (18:59): Slightly calmer. At least some of it came through. ( Read more... )

I fell in love today ( Read more... )

It's been a good few days for books. Between the £1 rack at Galloway and Porter, the Giant Sale of Wonderfulness at Waterstone's, and the lovely bookstall at the market, I've managed to walk away with eight books, only one of which cost me full price.

1. Richard II by William Shakespeare. I read one speech (where he completely cribbed from Doctor ( Read more... )

How many copies of Christopher Marlowe can one girl possibly own?

Let's see.

1. Falling-apart paperback edition featuring the four major plays.

2. Bizarre hardcover edition from 1929, language supposedly not modernised.

3. Doctor Faustus paperback edition with nice appendices.

4. Edward the Second paperback edition, also with nice appendices ( Read more... )

Essay was handed in at noon today. Bound and everything. It looked quite pretty.

Went to the library and returned all the books I'd used for it. Nice sense of closure. Then picked up more books, two on Mélusine, a copy of La Reine Margot, and a historical account of Marguerite de Valois. Yay for random research ( Read more... )