Arthur and the Minimoys - Luc Besson [dreadful, he should stick to the day job]
Roots - Alex Haley [amazing]
Here Lies Arthur - Philip Reeve [not as good as the Mortal Engines etc series]
Hello, Groin - Beth Goobie [dissertation-related gay teen lit]
The Boys and the Bees - Joe Babcock [ditto]
Totally Joe - James Howe [ditto]
So Hard To Say - Alex ( Read more... )

I have been very busy but have managed to read a lot and call it "stock awareness". Apologies once again for lack of contact and not even managing to reply to LJ comments, but rest assured that I do read them and love them. I am just trying to write a dissertation while being chronically ill. Tonight the illness is uppermost so I am doing this ( Read more... )

Mini Grey has won the Greenaway, yay ( Read more... )

Vienna Blood - Frank Tallis
The Story of the Amulet - E. Nesbit
The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
Phantastes - George Macdonald
The Twelve and the Genii - Pauline Clarke
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
Last Bus to Woodstock - Colin Dexter
The Shell House - Linda Newbery
The Crown of Dalemark - Diana Wynne Jones
Donne: The Reformed Soul - John Stubbs
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Paris, France - Gertrude Stein
The Little Grey Men - 'B.B.'
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
The New Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit
The Wind Singer - William Nicholson
Tiger, tiger - Lynne Reid Banks
The Diamond of Drury Lane - Julia Golding
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter - Richard Platt and Chris Riddell
Sugar Rush - Julie Burchill
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I've just discovered that one of my former supervisors is Jacqueline Wilson's daughter. How exciting!

Maybe I should do some work now.

Oh my god. I got a copy of Maus from the library and it has been annotated by a Nazi. I mean literally a Nazi. It has stuff about how racist stereotypes of Jews are accurate and how it was right for the Europeans to reclaim Europe and how writing about the Holocaust is simply a "world-class whinge".

It's a good job I have the ninja hat. Maybe I'll make it its own icon. Yes, that would be a productive use of my time.

Sweet Jesus! I really do have a lot to do.

I want to go here

I seem to be utterly incapable of doing any work today. I must pull myself together because I need to do 3 job applications in the next 24 hours.