For those of you who do not follow me on the various social-networking sites, I present to you a wee happy surprise on Ceol Mo Chroí. :)

D'fhág mé m'fhón póca sa tacsaí.

"I left my mobile phone in the taxi"

Looks more like "I left my m-fing phone in the taxi."

:D

Yay Irish!

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artiesten/artiest//8072452

Try not to lose it again.

Heart and Soul, by Maeve Binchy

Maeve recycles characters from her old books -

Night of Rain and Stars, Whitethorn Woods, Scarlet Feather, Quentins / Tara Road, Evening Class -

in this interesting and heartwarming (pardon the pun) frame story about a heart clinic in Dublin.

Quote:
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My fever and runny nose allowed me to stay home and finish this book (which wasn't easy since my head was swimming and the words all kinda blurred together)

King Dork, by Frank Portman

Recommended by _lyra_b, this book is about a socially-awkward kid and his journey through the first semester of sophomore year in high school. He is wildly unpopular, as ( Read more... )

Chuck Palahniuk earns the high honor of "Worst Book I Have Ever Made it All the Way Through in the History of Reading" with his 2009 release, PygmyI cannot believe for the life of me that I made it all the way through the book, but a combination of my OCD completism and my stubbornness at investing that amount of time in reading a book just to have ( Read more... )

"If you want to read "Catcher in the Rye" but don't have a copy, another option is to read it free online. Check it out: http://bit.ly/9izDaWRead more... )

Thanks to Paige O'Day, I learned that today is both the birthday of James Joyce and also the 88th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses. Bloomsday is celebrated on June 16, the anniversary of Joyce's first outing with the true love of his life, Nora Barnacle, in 1904. All of the events in Ulysses took place on June 16, 1904 ( Read more... )

Talking with someone this morning, I remembered to look for a quote I had appreciated during The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"I know only, like, five Indians in our whole tribe who have never drunk alcohol ( Read more... )