In anticipation of the Best Book Bazar Ever, I bought no new books!

I read three, however:
Levin, Waltraut: "Nordische Göttersagen" ***
You know how everyone in a specific corner of the internet is kind of nuts about Loki, right? As played by Tom Hiddleston in the movie Thor, obviously. Well, apparently, Loki once got pregnant by a horse. That's all I ( Read more... )

In case you were, you know, wondering.
The thing is - people always used to ask, how DO you find the time to read so much? (Sometimes in that nasty, WHY would you EVER read so much? tone of voice, but let's not go there!) and I always pretty straightforwardly answered that I just like reading better than most things, and I don't do sports, and I don ( Read more... )

(I got an early spot at Pottermore, by the way, yay. I didn't even try really hard, I was just there when they were handing them out. I even solved the riddle all by myself, sophistcated as it was.)

Anyway.

Read

38) Barker, Pat: "Blow Your House Down" *****
39) Wilke, Jutta: "Holundermond" *****
40) Garland, Lisa : "Engel oder Todesbotin?" ***
41) Otto ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Abseits vom Paradies"
Author: Kathleen Rich
Page Count: 64
First Published: 19??
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

OMG THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK EVER. okay. How do I describe this. There is absolutely no sense of time - this could be set any time after the invention of the car - no sense of space, though ( Read more... )

Book Title: "How to Make an American Quilt" 
Author: Whitney Otto
Page Count: 254
First Published: 1991
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

I bought this on the flea market because I vaguely remembered reading it a long time ago and wanted to know if I remembered the right book. I kind of did, only I didn't ( Read more... )

I just returned from the cinema an hour ago full of hate for mankind. You know how people can do annoying things in the cinema? 
- eat stuff from loud bags
- come late
- talk to each other
- talk to the movie
- have a loud cold
- drink loud fizzy drinks

ALL THAT HAPPENED. The bitches next to me even tried to talk all through Snape's story, but I managed ( Read more... )

"Do you think Professor Slughorn is trying to collect me?"
"Yes."
"Do you want me to let him?"
"Yes."

Okay that reads ... terrible. Did no one notice? (And now Harry's being all flirtatious too.)

So yes ... I went out and got HBP from the library (my library rocks) and put off watching DH.2 till tomorrow. But I already did the list thing after the ( Read more... )

I'm just watching OotP, you know, to ~prepare myself~ (why I don't have HBP on DVD, I don't even know) (I had planned a movie marathon, but there wasn't time), and I can't help but notice that Little Whinging makes no sense. It's HUGE, for one, and then there's miles of wheat fields, and then there's a tiny, tiny playground - the same playground ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Engel oder Todesbotin?" (Angel or Harbinger of Death?) 
Author: Lisa Garland
Page Count: 64
First Published: ?
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

I'll stop rating these dime novels as goat food and rate them within the perimeter of "of course these are bad, but there are varieties of bad", shall I. I ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Holundermond"
Author: Jutta Wilke
Page Count: 316
First Published: 2011
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

This book is so good that I want to go out, find a 10-year-old girl and give it to her to read, but I think that would be weird. Maybe I'll leave it on the front steps of the school in my ( Read more... )