I have read 115 books last year. When I went through my list and tried to come up with a Top Ten list of the ones I enjoyed the most it was just as hard as every year. The ones that jumped at me first (Stephen King’s Dark Tower series) would have taken up 7 [...]
Books, books, and even more books
Joanne Harris “Runemarks”
“Seven o’clock on a Monday morning, 500 years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again.”
Amazon review:
Maddy Smith is a girl who has got it bad. Born with the runemark of the title on her hand, she is an oddball in her village, befriended only by a mysterious old [...]
Spring is in the air
Yesterday we had the first really nice and sunny spring day this year and, boy, I really can’t wait for winter to be over! I don’t even know what it is this year as usually I don’t mind winter (we even had quite a bit of snow this time, so it actually was a [...]
I never know when to stop
A couple of days ago a friend of mine asked me if I had ever bought one of those boxes full of books on ebay, because she wanted to know if it might be worth a try (not that she is in any danger of running out of stuff to read, mind you). I couldn’t [...]
T13 – 13 New Authors I Discovered Last Year
I’m lazy again and I haven’t got a lot of time, so again I give you a booklist. Or, rather an author list this time. And because I can’t be arsed to look them all up, there are no pictures of the covers today, nor links to the books on Amazon. But I’m sure you [...]
T13 – My reading year 2008 – part 2
This week I had a bit of trouble coming up with a topic for my book list. Turns out I could make lots of lists about the books I read, but almost none of them would have 13 entries. But with not taking the tpoic too literally I finally decided on this:
13 non-fiction books I [...]
The Only Way I Would Ever Pick Up a Twilight Novel again
But unfortunately we all know that SMeyer is not a good enough writer to be able to pull that one off…
I’m seriously thinking about ordering this t-shirt, though.
