Birthdays

My family is annoying birthday-wise.  They’re all clumped into two areas of the year and I’m not great at present ideas at the best of times.  At the moment it’s sister’s-bday-dad’s-bday-father’s-day (all within 4 days).  I went out yesterday and did a quick present-shop.  My sister got Coraline (which is one of the best books [...]

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DWTS and an awesome book.

So it’s Dancing With the Stars time again.  I don’t watch a lot of reality TV anymore.  I used to love it all – Big Brother, Idol, etc but now DWTS is pretty much it.  I don’t know why this is, since I just KNOW that it will start to piss me off at some [...]

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Meme 2 & 3

Both of these are stolen from Jenny (Two and Three).
The first is about books:
One book…
you’re currently reading: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
that changed your life: Hmm.  Changed my life.  I guess any book that first turned me onto an author that I love.  Or no, my Linguistics textbook from first year.  Without that (and the [...]

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BTT – Another World

Suggested by Miko
Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live?
Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?
What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life?
(This came to me when reviewing a Jonathan Carroll book – I’m not sure I’d like to live in [...]

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After the Honeymoon (another Meme)

Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could they ever lure you back?I don’t think I’ve ever fallen out of love with an author per se, but one day [...]

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