I've been updating my Goodreads library, mostly because it's there and they do have competitions occasionally for books, which is all good. I have no pride when it comes to free books. Also my shoulder has not been good and this has been pretty low-impact stuff on my arms. I've been on a knitting/crochet ban and while the little knitting I've been ( Read more... )

"Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven ( Read more... )

"I'm not a victim: this word only describes what happened to me; it doesn't define me. Nor am I a survivor: this almost suggests I'm over it, when this isn't true either. I am a Phoenix, rising from the ashes of a broken life, an ongoing survival in progress ( Read more... )

Cork's Glass Book I want to see it live!

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Having reviewed Long Long Way, removed Germs from my lists of bests reading pile, and tried to find the idiot mentioned in a previous post (and failed BTW, so far at least) I think it's time for brunch in the garden.

There are times when I love Librarything and then I see things like the tags on Sebastian Barry's Long Long Way Drives me nuts. There's British as a fairly major tag, now I could let this one go because he is in the british army and it is about british involvement in Ireland and WWI. But BRITISH AUTHOR, this is a glaring stupid mistake, and it's ( Read more... )

"A sign on the wall just inside the door proudly proclaimed Today's Special, wasabe chilli. Wasabe is a really fierce Japanese green mustard, which ought by right to be banned under the Geneva Convention for being more dangerous than napalm."

Simon R Green - Agents of Light and Darkness

I guess he isn't a fan of wasabe then....

Started Vellum by Hal Duncan last night and suspect it's not for me, the voice in my ear was starting to yell another name. Gave it up when the voice became too annoying for me to continue, will give it a week or so and then try again, if the voice continues will pass it on to the named person ( Read more... )