A proper update coming soon! Like, as soon as I post this! :P ( Read more... )

Title: Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Author: Samara O’Shea
Genre: How-to, diary ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've decided to put my 50bookchallenge book list here because I always post reviews at that comm in reading order, whereas sometimes I may write and post reviews at this journal on a different schedule.

I'll post my earlier list(s) sometime later.

All my reviews (including ones from 2007!) can be found under the 'book review' tag.

( 18 read (5 reviewed), 5 in progress )

Title: The Nutmeg of Consolation
Author: Patrick O’Brian
Genre: Historical fiction, British ( Read more... )

Title: Parsifal’s Page
Author: Gerald Morris
Genre: Arthurian, kid lit

This is the fourth book in Morris’ Squire’s Tale series. It is the story of Piers, a young boy who is dissatisfied with his life as a blacksmith’s son, seeking instead adventure and the wonders of courtly life. In this book he gets it ( Read more... )

Title: The Yellow “M” (from the Adventures of Blake and Mortimer series)
Author/Illustrator: Edgar Pierre (E. P.) Jacobs
Genre: Bande dessinée (or “BD”; European comic), mystery

General IntroductionCaptain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer are the stars of a comic book series - created by the Belgian writer/artist Edgar P. Jacobs (1904 ( Read more... )

I'm going to the Opera with my dad tomorrow! Should be interesting.

I made a rather dramatic purchasing decision - for me! - oh...two weekends ago (28/29 May) I think it was. The purchase was a new pair of sandals - but without a strap at the back and with heels a bit more than three inches (3 inches!) high. :D ( Read more... )

I think it'd be fair to say I had an eventful April ( Read more... )

March was an interesting month.

For starters, I joined my university's new choir/vocal ensemble after meeting up with a friend of mine, Ao, who is also in it. It'd been a while since I last saw her - and now I can meet her every week and get the organized-musical-activity fix that I'd been missing for so long after being out of a school band and/ ( Read more... )

...although I haven't updated this journal publicly* in months. :S But it has been less time than it appears, however, because apparently I forgot to make this entry about the ending of one section of a French course I was doing public ( Read more... )