I am almost ashamed to admit that seeing my sister at the window, her back hunched, shoulders drooping in defeat, gives me a sort of savage satisfaction. I do not need to look past her to know that she is seeing Sara Crewe, wrapped warmly against the cold in her ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
I love Dawn French, I think she’s wonderful so it was with great delight I picked up this book to read it and found myself rather less than engrossed. I really don’t think it’s the writing but rather the topic I didn’t enjoy. I really struggled all the way through ...
Yes, I’m jumping on the Rowling bandwagon. I know what I’ve said about J.K. Rowling and her writing on previous days, that her writing is okay but her characters are two dimensional and I’ll continue to stand by that until I manage to read her most recent works, A Casual ...
While browsing this morning I found this article on 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963 – 2013. It may be a good list, they may even be important books but I don’t know as I haven’t read any of them, there are two I might possibly have read but ...
I’ve found a couple of gems of birthdays this week and felt I had to share with you. Michael Palin is the 5th May. He’s well known for a few big things, he was one of the team on Monty Python’s Flying Circus as well as doing a number of ...
Browsing my blogs and the web last night had me finding some potentially interesting things, not sure what to use them for or how it’d be possible to link them all in a story but that’s not my problem I only put these things out there. Let’s start with a ...
From the pages of the Hex-Files Someone or something unseen has been attacking Fionna Kenmare, lead singer for the Irish acid-folk rock band Green Fire. Now she’s on tour in the united States, about to play the biggest concert of her career- and she’s in fear for her life, because ...
I’m really not sure how today’s Mondayitis is likely to go as I’m interviewing the Library from The Great Gatsby, I’m sure the books could have a great deal to say if I can only get them to talk. Here goes… What do you read? What do we read? What ...
Today is a very special edition of Mondayitis. Today, I present to you Uncle Alfred! Sometimes he’s a Queensland Blue Heeler and when he’s not he’s a perfectly rational man. What do you read? I’m not a big reader. I read the newspaper, there are a lot of pictures in ...
Just a couple of my favourite blogs. Let’s start off with a little word play on Not Always Learning. To err is human, to typo is anything but divine but it does depend on your point of view. Over on Beattie they’re talking about The Railway Children. I recall seeing Jenny ...
There are many quotes that have been proven wrong over the years. There’s the one about the number of computers needed “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” attributed to Thomas J. Watson of IBM which has been proven incorrect and there’s the one about not needing ...
Not me personally but my blog. I’m celebrating in a low key sort of way with balloons. I couldn’t find balloons in my cupboard (planning ahead) so instead am linking to some cool pictures of balloons. To start off with here’s a little thing I made this morning. Here’s ...
I follow Marieke Hardy on Twitter, she says things I’m thinking but wouldn’t dare say and does interesting things so when I found her book it had to join my To Be Read pile. When I finally pulled it out I wasn’t surprised to find it eminently readable. It’s about ...
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Mazagine is pulp fiction at it’s best. It takes submissions from all sorts of people across Australia and New Zealand and only publishes the good ones. I got involved with ASIM within the first dozen or so issues and then managed to acquire most of the rest, ...
“Woof”, says Timmy “Can I read too?” “No, you silly thing” responds George, “dogs can’t read.” Timmy would do anything for her including learning to read. He wouldn’t dress up and attend a flash mob as George wouldn’t dream of dressing him up and have other dogs laugh at him. ...