Lo and behold, I actually managed to register for ALL the English classes I want to take today ( Read more... )

Aaaalso.

Neil Gaiman in Köln am 16.März.

Geht da wer hin? lexygranger weiß ich ja schon... noch wer?

Dear Bernard Cornwell,

I really, really appreciate that you wrote a book set during the Viking invasions in England, and while it isn't high literature, it is enjoyable, but.
Please.
A ð is NOT a thorn.
A thorn looks like this: þ.
That is actually not hard to get right, because the original rune for thorn looks the same, only more angular, and why ( Read more... )

Time Travel I:
I finally found the time to re-read The Neverending Story. It's one of the first real books I remember reading, and I read it often. I remember the feeling of betrayal when it did end after all. I remember running into the forests with my brother and our friends from the neighbourhood, taking my parents' good hardcover copy of the ( Read more... )

And another brilliant thing found via aervir:

( Official Rules for Writing 'Feminist Re-imagings and Re-imaginings' Historical Novels. Cut for length, but teh funny. )

I re-read The Flying Classroom today. I am always so very happy to find that I still love a book on re-reading that I loved as a child. Too many books that I positively adored when I was younger turn out to be rather trite when I look at them now, fifteen or ten or even just seven years later. Mallory Towers or St Clare's or Secret Seven, for ( Read more... )

*sigh* And now I suddenly find myself so broke I can't even buy my usual end-of-semester treat (i.e., some new books). And I encountered so many books over the last few weeks that I'd like to read! (Yes, it's all desperatefans' fault.) Not that I deserve a treat, but I'd like to give me one anyway. Meep.
...well, at least I found an online edition of The ( Read more... )