I may have found my new favourite site. Apart, of course, from Chicklit.

Oh frabjous day!

I found it by way of MoorishGirl, which I found thanks to a poster at...Chicklit, and which is also excellent.

Today? Frabjous.

A very happy (if a little late) birthday to zoje_george!

I'm so sorry I'm late, hon'. I've been interbets-less for a couple of days. Bah!

Happy Birthday pinguin!

Why aren't more of you watching cracked_spines? I know there's not much there yet, but come on! I didn't volunteer in time for July in the genre I want, but I think there're still a couple open.

If this isn't a community made for Chickliterati, I don't know what is.

I'm reading The Colour by Rose Tremain for my bookclub, and quite enjoying it so far. Although I am only about 40 pages in, so that may change. I thought I'd look at Chicklit to see what other people thought of it, only to discover that no one seems to have mentioned it. Ever ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday brandnewgun!

Belated Happy Birthday yiskah!

The haul from my latest trip to the second-hand bookshop:

Morceaux Choisis by Victor Hugo
Muhammad and the Conquests of Islam by Francesco Gabrieli
An Anthology of African and Malagasy Poetry in French Edited by Clive Wake
In the Hour of Signs by Jamal Mahjoub
Cantonese - A Crash Course by Sidney Lau
Comet by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Islam by ( Read more... )

A belated Happy Birthday to pescana!

I'm so sorry I missed the actual day. There was a good reason, but this is a happy post, so I won't share it.

I hope you had a great day, with a fantastic year to come.

Happy birthday kylegirl!

1)Total number of books owned?

I have no idea. If they were all in bookcases, or at least on shelves, I might be able to use listersgirl's Billy method of measurement. My guess would be somewhere in excess of 500, but that is just a guess.

2) The last book I bought?I ordered four books from Amazon the other day. The first of them arrived today and it is ( Read more... )