Technically this happens on a Friday but I'm rather bored so I felt like making it a Tuesday thing :)

Closest Book:  Infernal Devices
Author:  Philip Reeve
Page 56, sentence 5:

"The moon was a windblown feather, caught in the spires of the Winter Palace. A lamp burned in Freya Ramussen's window, and as Wren hurried past, she thought, Goodbye Miss ( Read more... )

As I've blog surfed my holidays away, I wanted to share a few links to some issues surrounding boys, girls and books:

1. Boy Books and Girl Books -  An author discusses how urban fantasy is often mistakened as 'girl' books.

2. Boys and Girls - Another author discusses whether the majority of girls like tough heroines as much as boys (apparently) do. ( Read more... )

I intended to buy some boots yesterday but some how walked out of the store with five books...The sale ends today and I'm currently fidgeting at home with a calculator.

Anyway, I finally bought and read Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, ignoring my wariness of pretty covers since Twilight. I also quite enjoyed reading it :) though I wanted Beira to be ( Read more... )

To win an advanced reading copy of Moulton's Angelfire:

http://courtney-allison.blogspot.com/2010/06/angelfire-cover-and-arcs-plus-contest.html

Back to writing related stuff:

Scattered words I pick up like shards of glass, fashioned to shine or cut with a rough edge.
Look through with a scatter shot mind, cutting deeper.

Sometimes, when I'm ( Read more... )

Still revising English (the exam is next Monday) so I'm not to go buy a new book until I've finished going over concept and text notes (leaving the essays for tomorrow). Though, I came across an interesting concept in revision:

Heterotopia
"A place outside of all place, even if
locatable in reality; a simultaneously mythic
and real contestation of ( Read more... )

Doing English revision for an exam whilst flicking through goodreads, just quoting:

“Both writer and reader experience the
same basic pleasure - something in one
form in the mind takes another form on the
page, something in one form on the page
takes another form in the mind. This is the
essential pleasure of literature, ideas going
into and out of words ( Read more... )

Taking a break and clicking around deviant art, I've fallen into the landscape and nature section and I refuse to get up:
*All credit belongs to the linked artists.


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I'm so tired, trying to stay up because I know I'll have to spend tomorrow doing uni assessments...
The evil mac computer in my media lab kept on randomly freezing during editing today which drove my media partner crazy, poor guy, our project is okay at the moment, though I'm not sure about the music choice he wants to put to it...

I've also noticed ( Read more... )

I've decided to share stories a little later on...May is a little too hectic for me to post  them.

I unintentionally skipped a lecture the other day (but downloaded the recording later) because I discovered the young adult section of my library at university and just started reading lol. I like my sister's uni's library better though, it has more ( Read more... )

Many of these ones have a sharper version which is posted next to it, personally I like the original blurrier ones because they have a more dream-like look but the sharper ones are easier too see..

1.
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