Do you know I just got a shock as I wrote that and then matched up the date: February is almost over. I wasn’t paying attention. Well, apart from the extra reading I’m now doing for work, I’ve also been borrowing a lot of books, dipping in and out of them at my leisure. The…
(No vlog this month on account of my sore mouth and our internet being drastically shaped. It would take ten weeks to upload any video to YouTube at the moment.) 1. Cat’s Cradle – Alas, unfinished. I think it’s because I loved Slaughterhouse Five so much and this is quite different in tone (even more…
YouTube has introduced some new tricks to its editing area – or so I suppose, unless they’ve been there a while and I’ve just not explored the features properly. Anyway! Effects! I put an ‘Old-Fashioned’ filter/wash on this vlog to see how it looks, but I don’t think it’s showing up (or it wasn’t at…
I’ve been vlogging my monthly reading piles for a while (September, August, July, May), but I’m not going to this month. The reason for this is simple: I simply cannot trust myself not to cry while trying to describe A Monster Calls. A brief blurb: Conor’s mother is sick, very sick, and it appears the…
Books discussed or mentioned: The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa Siddhartha by Herman Hesse The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Forever by Judy Blume The Mammoth Book of Dracula, edited by Stephen Jones Anno Dracula by Kim Newman A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel…
Books discussed or mentioned: Dog Boy by Eva Hornung (Text Publishing) Shooting the Fox by Marion Halligan (Allen & Unwin) The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarksy (Allen & Unwin) Saltwater Vampires by Kirsty Eagar (Penguin) Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Text Publishing) The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman (Text Publishing)…
Back to regular book blogging, however the vlog from the other week went so well I might consider doing more. Do let me know if you’d like that! It was fun. Anyway! I’m procrastinating. Help me? Thanks! I’m trying to work on a poem and it’s not being very cooperative. Cinquains are cheeky. Can you…
I’ve been in a reading slump so far this year. It hurts to admit, but it’s true. I don’t know why either. I could make the usual excuses: being busy, too distracted, not finding the right book. I won’t though – or not the last excuse, at least. ‘Not finding the right book’ is simply…
I think it was inevitable that I should eventually read The Passage; after all, how could I refuse such a juicy, exciting premise of vampires dominating humans in a decimated world? It’s epic and ambitious, fast-paced and very readable… … and yet I finished feeling a lack of something that it is hard to put…
