21 December 2006
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Feels like its been ages since I wrote anything for this thingymeblog. And this isn’t much of an entry either, just a quick note to say that I’m off home tomorrow, not sure when I’ll be online after Christmas, d’internet … Continue reading
19 December 2006
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, romance
Setting: Britain - Georgian, England
10 Stars
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ISBN: 0099468042 ; Wikipedia entry “Do not, I beg of you, my lord, say more!” uttered Miss Milbourse, in imploring accents, slightly averting her lovely countenance, and clasping both hands at her bosom. This may be my favourite Heyer so … Continue reading
17 December 2006
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, sff
Setting: alternate Europe, Britain - Georgian, Europe - Napoleonic
8 Stars
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Book 3 in the Temeraire ISBN: 0345481305 ; Wikipedia entry ; aarti chapati I can’t say very much about the plot of this book without giving away plot details from Book 2. I enjoyed this more than the second, maybe … Continue reading
17 December 2006
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, sff
Setting: alternate Europe, Britain - Georgian, Europe - Napoleonic
8 Stars
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Book 2 in the Temeraire series ISBN: 0345481291 ; Naomi Novik’s LJ ; Sandstorm Reviews In the first book of this series Novik introduced the slightly alternate Napoleonic world she had created; one with dragons used as instruments of war. … Continue reading
15 December 2006
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, romance
7 Stars
6 Comments
ISBN: 1904233805 See also: Official Site I picked this up in Chapters because the title and author sounded vaguely familiar, I wasn’t sure from where, and I don’t like that cover, but it was only €4, so I figured what … Continue reading
14 December 2006
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This whole going out thing during the week, fun isn’t it? The work Christmas party was last night; official part was fairly crap. Rubbish food and stuffy gentleman’s club environment. But the unofficial pub bit was quite fun. Of course … Continue reading
12 December 2006
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I know, terrible terrible form to post two vidjos in a row, but you just must love D’unbelievables. You must[1] Sheer genius! But second of all, something more serious. I don’t know how many of you have heard about the … Continue reading
12 December 2006
Call no: 800
Genre: detective & mystery, sff
Setting: Ankh-Morpork, Discworld
10 Stars
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A Discworld novel ; ISBN: 0552152676 Lspace wiki ; Grumpy Old Bookman ; One More Chapter Relations between dwarfs and trolls have never been all that great, but, with the death of an influential dwarf community leader it seems that … Continue reading
12 December 2006
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Ah, youtube, you never let me down, do you. For lo, the footage of Mr. O’Callaghan has surfaced, uploaded by Georgi Casy, where more rugby-type vidjos can be found: Let me just chortle[1] away to myself for a while now… … Continue reading
6 December 2006
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Sometimes this www-land[1] just comes up with the goods. Look at this book: Isn’t that the best title ever? Not so much the main title which is Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins but the subtitle The governess as … Continue reading