I missed Neil Gaiman... they were at capacity and wouldn't let us in ;_; . So I called my mommy and boo-hooed about it for an hour, heh

GOING TO SEE NEIL GAIMAN TALK AT CLEVELAND LIBRARY THIS SUNDAY!!!!

OMFG. :-D

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.

- p.8, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I have a feeling I am going to enjoy this book immensely :)

Has anyone read Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily"? I read it just the other night, in the anthology My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (two bucks at the Friends of the Library booksale, can't beat that! And I totally got it solely because the cool cover caught my eye ^-^) and it was a good story and everything, but what the F is it titled that ( Read more... )

I've just under a hundred pages left of Wuthering Heights. Cathy the younger -- wow, what a little bitch. I cannot read any of these scenes where she interacts with Hareton without wanting to smack the shit out of her! She is not better than her mother at all, just more naive and brought up in better conditions. I can see this will not end happily ( Read more... )

Gave up on Darkmans. Started Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End and I love every bit of it so far. Neglecting work as a matter of fact because I'm so hooked :). Appropriate somehow XD

I started Darkmans by Nicola Barker. Her "style" of narrative is getting old fast

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, drama!!! Silly boys.

I have decided to get another tattoo and soon. I haven't settled 100% on what my next one is to be but I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with the The Blind Assassin (it's by Margaret Atwood and made of fantastic) one I want. I want a side piece with a black tribal wolf design that says "All stories are ( Read more... )

So. Tired. Gahhhhh

I've been working mostly 13.5 hour shifts lately (7:30 am til 9 pm) and normally I fly through 'em pretty easily but today just burned me out completely. Possibly because on top of my long day today I worked until nearly ten last night (and I can never go straight to sleep after running around all day) and I have a ten hour ( Read more... )

I really hope someone reads Bunnicula for the Vampire Challenge :-D