I like a bonfire! Sadly, the American fall holiday is Halloween, which does not entail bonfires. Candy, yes. Slutty costume versions of really strange things like bumblebees, yes. But no sparklers, very few sausages, and rarely fireworks or bonfires. And no burning effigies at all, unless Bonfire Night happens to coincide with the Bama game.
Whenever [...]
Archive for the ‘Misc.’ Category
Bonfire Night
Posted in Misc. on November 5, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I love my grandmother
Posted in Misc. on October 31, 2009 | 14 Comments »
All of them actually. I have three. Because I’m just lucky like that. And they are all fantastic in different ways. But in this case I am referring to my mother’s mother. For one thing she is beautiful – we are always inspecting her wedding pictures and things when we come to visit her, and [...]
It’s National Caps Lock Day today
Posted in Misc., tagged Lord Alfred Douglas, oscar wilde, weird holidays on October 22, 2009 | 18 Comments »
And also, by a wild coincidence? The birthday of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s erstwhile lover, creepy anti-Semitic xenophobe in his middle-ish years, and slightly more subdued jerk after that.
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS WAS NOT A VERY NICE PERSON. He had an extremely difficult life BUT NOT EVERYBODY WHO HAS A BAD CHILDHOOD TURNS OUT TO [...]
This week on BTT
Posted in Misc., tagged Booking Through Thursday on October 15, 2009 | 28 Comments »
We’re moving in a couple weeks (the first time since I was 9 years old), and I’ve been going through my library of 3000+ books, choosing the books that I could bear to part with and NOT have to pack to move. Which made me wonder…
When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do [...]
In which I reveal the obsessive side of my nature
Posted in Misc. on October 10, 2009 | 20 Comments »
This is a longstanding complaint really, but I’ve been reminded of it today by Paperback Reader’s lovely shelf of beige books. See those Salman Rushdie books? This is the source of my displeasure. Because I like Salman Rushdie quite a lot. In fact I am thinking it is probably time to read Shalimar the Clown, [...]
I am a fail book blogger
Posted in Misc., tagged Let the Right One In, vampires on September 21, 2009 | 30 Comments »
I realized yesterday that I hadn’t read any of my other books for the RIP IV Challenge, and they all came due today, and I had to renew them by an unnecessarily complicated process because the library is also being fail lately. Anyway so I grabbed Let The Right One In (why is it called [...]
Y’all, I appreciate you
Posted in Misc. on September 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
And today, in light of its being the massive book blog love-fest week, and today being the day where we all say thanks for particular books, here are some that I’d never have read if it weren’t for various people (see below):
Thanks to an adventure in reading for Douglas Coupland – particularly Eleanor Rigby.
And to [...]
eReaders
Posted in Misc. on September 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So I’ve never had an eReader, but they sound fantastic. I mean you can put dozens of books up on those things and stick ‘em in your purse, and there you go, you have a whole bunch of books. That would make packing for long trips GLORIOUSLY EASY. Instead of hurling me into an agony [...]
Several books at once
Posted in Misc., tagged art, for young people, Gerald Morris, Griffin and Sabine, King Arthur, letters, Nick Bantock, Sabine's Notebook, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Golden Mean, The Squire His Knight & His Lady, The Squire's Tale, TVTropes.org on September 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Ack, I am so behind on reviews. I am working on a project that requires a lot of attention (fortunately I can work on it while still watching classic Doctor Who), which is the excuse I’m using for my negligence. Feel free to be distracted from this by a picture of my beautiful hat:
Gerald Morris’s [...]
DogEar Reading Challenge
Posted in Misc., tagged DogEar Reading Challenge on September 2, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My own personal game for the DogEar Reading Challenge is to read only books recommended to me by Jeane. Ya heard. Thus:
1. Adult fantasy/sci-fi
2. A book featuring an animal
3. A YA or juvenile fiction book
4. A nonfiction book on an obscure topic/a topic you don’t usually read about
5. A book about gardening, plants, or food
So [...]
