On this day I really should be writing something about Carrie Fisher or Richard Adams, but my feelings are a bit raw at present. Instead I’m continuing on with my normal scheduled article and will revisit both of them at some later stage. It was not a good day to ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
So I’m at Uni and how I allocate my time has changed substantially, there are some things I find I just haven’t time for any more but it’s okay to cut down on TV watching, maybe not so okay to cut down my reading or cut out my writing but ...
For the first time in a very long time I have nothing for you for Friday Photos. My notes tell me this is number 121 in the Friday Photos regime which is well over two years. I’m very busy being busy without much time to go shopping or visit places or ...
Looking for B in female science fiction authors I came across an interesting thought. I have a book which I refer to for this kind of thing, The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists, put together in 1982 before we started being really proactive about female authors and in the ...
Yesterday I was preparing to write something when I realised there probably wasn’t much sense in it, not what I was writing but the timing. I moved this blog to a different host and yesterday is when they were doing the work, somehow it didn’t make a great deal of sense ...
I’ve doing a lot of thinking since I looked at this article yesterday. It’s a lovely list of the greatest science fiction and fantasy books of all time. I was stoked as I’ve read the first book listed (actually it’s in reverse order so it’s number 100 but I won’t ...
This is one of the questions we were given in class for homework. Maybe I shouldn’t be doing my homework on my blog but it is relevant. I’m not sure how long it’s meant to be but I promise I’ll try to keep it concise. My reading tastes have changed ...
Seeing the Tiptree Awards as sent to me by The Bookslut on Twitter reminded me of a conversation I was having with a customer four years ago. She was buying books for her partner, who was going through gender reassignment, and had a whole list of books she wanted to ...
I must be tired as I put this into WordPress three hours ago with the intention of just saving the information so I could work on it later, it was going to be my blog for tonight, but I clicked on the wrong button and published it with only my ...