I will be attending Octocon in a week. Octocon is the Irish nationan SF and fantasy convention, and I have been looking forward to go there ever since I decided to go ( Read more... )

I love poetry, and have for as long as I can remember. I grew up with rhymes and poetry by André Bjerke and Inger Hagerup, who wrote poetry for children. The kind of poetry you can even enjoy as a grown up ( Read more... )

Moomin and I are rooting for WorldCon in Helsinki in 2017!


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The Girlfriend and I went to Bergen. There were penguins! I love penguins! Read about it HERE.

I read The Lies of Locke Lamora. Loved it, blogged about it HERE.

So, one week off work done. I have two weeks more off in August, when I'm off to London and Dublin. Can't wait.

I seem to be on a roll with my reading. Today I finally am done with The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Or... Not finally, as I loved it, but I've had it around, wanting to read it, for around six years...

I've also read Urd by Ruth Lillegraven. Fantastic poetry! And this is indeed the sort of poetry you should read from start to end ( Read more... )

If you'd like to read about my meeting with my hero, and favourite author of all time, Neil Gaiman, you can read about it in my blog! It includes a reading with Neil Gaiman himself!
Hidden in a Book - book blog

This meme is shamelessly stolen from toosdraadloos1. Do you have the guts to answer these questions and re-post as "The Controversial Survey ( Read more... )

So, I have pretty much all in order for EasterCon next year. I just need to buy plane tickets. It will be in Glasgow, and I'm very excited ( Read more... )

...but hopefully not my last!

At the beginning of the EasterCon I felt quite scared. That is, Thursday night, before the con had actually started, I was spending time with pogodragon and jeremy_m. I was introduced to tanngrisnir, a really sweet natured Glaswegian, and we ended up going out for curries along with a couple of Americans, one which turned out to be one of the ( Read more... )

So, I have bought plane tickets for my trip to England at the end of March. I have also payed for my hotel in London (just a couple of nights). I will get a ride with pogodragon & co up to Bradford, where I'm attending EasterCon. Hotel in Bradford has been booked for ages. I have also bought a ticket for the National Express coach from Bradford to Heathrow ( Read more... )