The Lantern (group read, week 3) by Deborah Lawrenson
This is the final week of our group read of The Lantern, and it was a really good experience. First off because I don’t think I would have read this one...
24 October 2011
Twisted Fairy Tale by *Shira-chan on deviantART
Twisted Fairy Tale by *Shira-chan on deviantART.
24 October 2011
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
In 1873 a package was delivered to a magician. A package that was, in fact, his daughter. The child’s mother had killed herself, distraught at being abandoned by the magician, and...
23 October 2011
France v New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup final · The Score
I was cheering for France in the final, but still, Congrats to New Zealand. They were the better team over the tournament, over the match, and over the past 20 odd...
23 October 2011
Pegasus and the flame by Kate O'Hearn
Mythology and Reality collide! So the blurb on the back of this book tell me. The mythical winged stallion Pegasus crash lands on a rooftop in modern day New York, fleeing...
22 October 2011
Victorian sex factoids
Victorian sex factoids: Something that becomes accepted as a fact, although it is not (or may not be) true; spec. an assumption or speculation reported and repeated so often that it...
19 October 2011
Julian Barnes wins the Booker
I haven’t read Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, and to be honest I don’t feel any great need to at the moment. It is supposed to be a good...
19 October 2011
The Lantern (group read, week 2) by Deborah Lawrenson
For week 2 we read parts 3 & 4. If you haven’t read these bits of the book then there are spoilers ahead. Questions this week are from Kailana; The title...
17 October 2011
There is no dog by Meg Rosoff
Imagine that God was a teenage boy, and a spoiled, sulky, sex-crazed one at that. One who became god because his mother won the job gambling. Now imagine that every time...
15 October 2011