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Even the red umbrella couldn't help with these rains
Those of you who live in relative proximity to Ireland may have heard that we had flooding here yesterday, especially in Dublin. Serious flooding. Real, no messing, don't travel if you don't have to, cars abandoned, scary flooding. When Younger Daughter left the house to go to Trinity yesterday morning, it was all set to be a rainy day. She ( Read more... ) -
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
So, I realised the other day that a certain light had gone out of my life, now that I'm not reading ALL THE BOOKS -[just channeling Hyperbole and a Half there, I never read anything like all the books] for our History Book, and enjoying venting spleen in rants that pretty much wrote themselves. So, must stop being lazy and start talking about more ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
The other day I happened to see a large sign in a shop window in the city centre advertising ice grips in stock AND that evening found there were thermal socks with a tog rating for sale in our local (small) grocery store. I'm still pondering the question of whether such early Irish preparations for a winter even worse than the last one are the ( Read more... ) -
Saying Yes to Gay YA (and its authors)
Probably everyone knows what the subject line refers to, but for any who might not, Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown posted their experience with an agent who offered to take their co-written YA novel *with* conditions, on Genreville. Many other spec-fic authors came forward telling of similar experiences with manuscripts containing gay ( Read more... ) -
Back now (and cranky as usual)
It's been a while, and I've realised that I'll probably never catch up properly on everyone else's posts, so better to dive back in than stand confusedly on the shore like the little critter in the userpic. I'm not returning with a proper rant, but flagging an issue that recurred in two articles, a character in a book and someone on BBC ( Read more... ) -
Yet another request for book help
When working on the Arthur chapter of the History Book - which is totally steepholm's baby, BTW* it occurred to me that it would be nice to have a couple of books that didn't have any mention of Arthur to set against the ones we were discussing. Not just out of the pool of all books in the world that are not in any way Arthurian, obviously. What we were ( Read more... ) -
48 HBC - Inconvenient
All right, it's taken me forever to finish writing up the small number of books I read over the weekend, but this at least is the last.
My goal of noting where I saw a review, recommendation or just passing mention of a book when adding it to my Goodreads to-read shelf is clearly not being met, and I've unfortunately no memory where I heard about ( Read more... ) -
48 HBC, Wrapped
Wrapped was both the weirdest coincidence of the Challenge, and the biggest disappointment. The coincidence was that brandy-painter and I both started reading it just before bed on Saturday night, getting approximately the same amount read before going to sleep. It was the biggest disappointment, not because I disliked it most of the books I read (it didn't ( Read more... ) -
48 Hour Book Challenge - Flip
I'm feeling much more tired today than I was at any time during the Challenge itself, which is odd - and also rather flat, which is less so. But, I do want to write up the remaining books read before running out of steam altogether. Speaking of steam, the girls should be kicking off soon in the Mini Marathon, though with some 40,000 people signed ( Read more... ) -
Finishing line, quick stats.
Added up my reading time, rang my mother, talked to the girls about dinner, and as the official finish line doesn't seem to be up at MotherReader's yet, will have to remember to clock in there later. I'll also be coming back to do at least quick write-ups on three of the books read during the Challenge ( Read more... )