This week I need to take my handy little iPod app and scan all the barcodes for the books that have arrived in my house since...uh...January *cringes* so I can get my LibraryThing catalogue updated. I'm afraid to do it because it will bring home the true horror of how out of control Mount TBR is but it has to be done ( Read more... )

The last couple of weeks have been highly entertaining. I gave a friend a copy of Mira Grant's Feed for her birthday, which started an uncontrollable addiction so she bought herself the other two books for and consumed all three over the last month ( Read more... )

I've been pondering my reading preferences. Not so much the genre or style I prefer, but my preference for stories with a happy ending. Or at least, in pro-fic, books that don't leave me a sobbing wreck on the floor ( Read more... )

Oh, Monday, you only took an hour to defeat me completely. How do you do this to me ( Read more... )

It's only a week into January and I finished my first book of the year. Ha! Er, usually I'm closer to having finished two at this stage. OH WELL ( Read more... )

Someone *cough*sugoll*cough* indicated that there might be some interest in hearing about my attempt to read all the Civil War books. So here you go ( Read more... )

According to my GoodReads widget, I'm on track to hit my target of 120 books this year. Let's just pretend that half of these weren't graphic novels, OK?

I just finished Plain Kate by Erin Bow and it is terrific. It's a YA novel and I tore through it in two days because it was that good. I loved the tone of it and Bow created characters that I ( Read more... )

Oh look, a post that is not about fanfic or the Avengers. I'm going to try, anyway :-D

I made the mistake of finding the YA section at my local library on Friday. Let's move quickly past the bit where it's been there for two years and I hadn't spotted it before, OK? Because the point is that I picked up Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins and ate it over ( Read more... )

According to Amazon, my Avengers DVD will be arriving tomorrow ( Read more... )

I lost the whole of yesterday to the nastiest migraine I've ever had. I'm not even kidding with that. It's time to discuss some kind of suppressant with my GP, I think, because the 36 hours of torment was just not worth anything. Usually I can at least take Migraleve and sleep off the worst of it: this one, not even touched by Migraleve and there ( Read more... )