> Weather feels positively autumnal: grey, cold and wet. I am not objecting to cold: Monday was too hot for my tastes and it wasn't even particularly warm for summer. Yesterday was grey and had the sort of drizzle that can't decide whether it's rain or fog, which also appears to be the weather of choice today. I'd rather have proper honest rain, ( Read more... )

Because allamistako just started his and every year I mean to keep a book list too, this is where I try doing just that! (Monthly, because one big list at the end of the year is just cumbersome.) Probably I'll forget about it by March at the latest, but hey, hope springs eternal.

So!

( Reading list, cut for length )

Walking through Cologne I chanced to approach the WDR building. Over the entrance they had a great poster for something to do with football, don't ask me, at any rate the caption read something like "DAS ERSTE TOR muss man erleben" ("THE FIRST GOAL is a must-experience ( Read more... )

Like fusselbiene, I enjoyed the book meme a lot, and as I am too tired to talk about building or uni or life in general, I'll just have a second instalment.

Three books were unguessed last time, so they'll go up here again. I am shocked - shocked, I say - that nobody knew admitted to know Siþen þe sege..., quite possibly one of the finest pieces of English ( Read more... )

Actually I signed up for a crapload of memes and never got around to doing them, but if I deal with the backlog now I'll just be frustrated anyway, so let's do the latest one instead. And then to bed.

Taken from chili_das_schaf and laurenia.

1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series ( Read more... )

Well, the first twelfth of the year is over, and perhaps this year I'll actually manage to keep up the Reading List. Here, at any rate, is this month's reading, with my unqualified and subjective commentary.

( Cut for lots of babbling )

The dead week has come, and I must go to work.

Actually work has three absolutely dead weeks: the last two weeks of December and the first week of January; but the week between Christmas and New Year's, the last week, this week, is the deadest of them all ( Read more... )

naominovik has uploaded the first chapter of Victory of Eagles!

I am yaying although I have not even had a chance to read the book before that *shakes fist at boyfriend*.
HEH.

There are a bunch of things I should be LJing about, including the latest tenant we found sharing our garden, thoughtspam on all kinds of things and all the photos from May, postcards in Japanese from the Netherlands and failures in ministries that would be no more than mildly amusing if they didn't have to do with OMG NUCLEAR POWER TEH EV0L, so ( Read more... )

So ( Read more... )