Don’t be alarmed. I got tired of the pinkness. Comments, please? Now, The Book Thief. I finally finished it. OK I was skipping pages toward the end. It was brilliantly written and with such fine writing it must be hard for an editor to say “hmmm, you could maybe cut that bit…you’ve kinda made that point [...]
I need a bookcase next to my desk. But can I find the perfect one? No. You’d think it would be simple to pop to one of the 100 second hand furniture shops near my home and pick one up. But for some reason second-hand bookcases are like gold dust. I blame media. So much [...]
OK, the deadline’s been pushed back for OOTS3 so I won’t be starting till mid-sept; Vicky and Erica are fighting (most sweetly) over whether to call it Betrayal or Dark Betrayal. Meanwhile I’m lost in Twitter-world, up to my eye-balls in tweets, re-tweets and tweeple. Every other tweet that pops up links to a blog [...]
I’m reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman. It’s fabulous. (I’ve not seen the movie. I like to read the book first.) The thing that sets it apart from other books I’ve read is that I can sense his joy in writing it. It shines through. It feels like he’s having a fabulous time with his imagination. [...]
