Category: Book Club
Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, dies
Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, dies I really hoped he was going to beat all the predictions. 🙁 If you haven’t gone and watched the whole of The Last Lecture, go and watch it. It’s an hour or so that you won’t regret.
more recommended reading.
Robin McKinley‘s book Sunshine has been recommended by NPR as an excellent book to take your mind of a gruesome plane journey. I’m looking forward to reading Dragonhaven if I ever manage to find it in a UK bookshop (it’s slightly embarrassing that she lives here in the UK and yet most ppl don’t including…
Forgot this one.
The Companions (Gollancz S.F.) Sheri S Tepper. Beware, following review contains spoilers.
spare coats and poleconomy
Stayed in bed late this morning, which sadly didn’t appear to make much difference to my level of tiredness or my headache. Felt unsettled this morning – today was the first day I hadn’t arranged to go anywhere or do anything, although I had invited b-i-l to bring Princess and Scott over in the afternoon,…
Book review post – Angel and other stuff.
First post in what may or may not become an occasional series, with the books I’ve read in the last week (or just over – I read a couple while recovering from last weekend). The Hero Strikes Back – Moira J Moore Second in the series, and not particularly challenging fantasy, but acceptably put together…
What's in a name?
travelling around author’s blogs again tonight and found a link from someone called Ann Aguirre. Followed it back to discover that her book, Grimspace, just published has a lead character called Jax! Wow, I’m famous. Well, not really, 😉 But I’ve added it to my amazon wish list, along with Blokus which I thoroughly enjoyed…
found on an authors site
Moira J Moore to be exact 🙂 I’ve also linked to Robin McKinley (I’m going to go on about her until I get you all reading her books…) Gotta say I love teh internets. Being able to glance into other ppl’s lives like this never wears out for me.
My knees hurt now.
I am so unfit. I’ve just done the introduction to my dirty dancing fitness thing twice through (well, tried to anyway) and I’m very confused and have achy knees and hips, but at least I feel like I’ve tried. Does 10 minutes of exercise after a complete sedentary day count for anything? Probably not, but…
Books and Muzzy
We went out to a pub this afternoon to celebrate my mother’s birthday. (We also sang for Big, b’day due this week.) Small took along Muzzy (the green cuddly monster toy, rather than the cds/dvds) and Donkey (an irritating small McToy that says “are we there yet?” “shre-e-ek” and “peekaboo” in rotation), while Big took…
What does your 7 year old read?
Or what did your now beyond 7 year old read when they were 7? or thereabouts? Tim and I were talking about reading earlier. We do a lot of talking about education – yesterday we were debating how much you learn about history from visiting places like Bolsover Castle, frozen in time by English Heritage.…