August 2010
16 posts
Review: The Moth Diaries →
At an exclusive girls’s boarding school, a sixteen year old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her obsession is her room mate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy’s friendship with…
Fun Fridays: A-Z →
I nicked this one from Jacq at BookBites For this meme, you list a favourite book that starts with each letter of the alphabet. If you don’t have a book for a letter (such as Z or X) than you … …
My Library: Non Fiction – Read →
101 Salivations: For the Love of Dogs – Rachael Hale 13 Original Clan Mothers, The – Jamie Sams A to Z of Dreams, The – Michael Johnstone An Open Heart – The Dalai Lama Art of War, The – Sun … …
My Library: Fiction – Read P-T →
Previous K-O Paddy Pork To The Rescue – John Goodall Painted Man, The – Peter. Brett Pandora – Anne Rice Penguin Book of Sick Verse, The – Various Pet Semetary – Stephen King Pilgrim – Sara Douglass…
My Library: Fiction – Read U-Z →
Previous P-T Unmentionable! – Paul Jennings Untamed – P.C. Cast Valiant – Holly Black Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead Vampire Armand, The – Anne Rice Vampire Lestat, The – Anne Rice Violin – Anne…
My Library: Fiction – Read F-J →
Previous A-E Fade Out – Rachel Caine Fairy Tales of The World – M. Novak Fallen Hearts – V.C. Andrews Feast of All Saints, The – Anne Rice Feast of Fools – Rachel Caine Firebrand, The – Marion Zimmer…
My Library: Fiction – Read K-O →
Previous F-J Kallocain – Karin Boye Kiss of Death – Rachel Caine Lace Reader, The – Barry Brunonia Lady of The Trillium – Marion Zimmer Bradley Lair of The White Worm, The - Bram Stoker Lasher – Anne…
In My Mailbox and Peter V. Brett Signing →
Peter V. Brett is one of my favourite authors and he is coming to Australia. During his visit in Oz he’ll be signing books so I decided to buy a book just for him to sign. I was hoping against … …
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter →
I think I may have to read this if not out of a need for enjoyment, then out of pure curiosity. Here’s a book trailer for it. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is already available, I just hadn’t heard…
Twitter Stories and Books →
It seems to be a new phenomenon (new yet old with how quickly everything takes shape these days) taking place, turning your web activities into a book, or using social online platforms as…
1001 Penguins To Read Before You Die: 1800s →
This is carrying on from the last post with Penguin’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die where I posted the list for pre-1700s and 1700s. Following is the list for 1800s and the next in line…
Review: Kallocain →
This classic Swedish novel envisioned a future of drab terror. Seen through the eyes of idealistic scientist Leo Kall, Kallocain’s depiction of a totalitarian world state is a montage of what…
Do You Love Your Library? →
Do you love your local library? What’s not to love? There’s free books to read, that lovely old book smell, it’s quiet (that makes me so happy), they even have e-reads in some libraries now, comic…
Review: Tomorrow When The War Began →
I read this as part of the Aussie Author Challenge, I’m only reading three books in the challenge and this is my second one. Ellie and her friends leave home one quiet morning, wave goodbye to their…
Review: On The Road →
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment…
Sutherland Shire Book Club →
I thought it was about time I posted about my book club especially seeing as we had our first meeting during the weekend and I have a book blog. I may as well take advantage of having a book blog… …
June 2010
11 posts
Fun Fridays: The BBC Says… And Some Updates! →
I got this from a mate who posted it on Facebook and I’m pretty sure there are some variations of it out there because I’ve seen it around a few times, but not recently. I have made a few changes…
Book News: Lifeline Book Fair →
Lifeline holds a book fair every now and then and they have one coming up in July at Sutherland Entertainment Centre again.
I really recommend going to their book fairs. I ran into people there…
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Dymocks 101 For 2010 →
I knicked this idea from Obsidiantears at Book Bites who knicked it from someone else! Don’t you love knicking people’s blog posts? It spreads the love…
Anyway, this is Dymocks Best Books of…
Old School Thursdays, Fun Fridays, and A New Page →
I haven’t posted an Old School Thursdays or Fun Fridays post in awhile. I just wanted to do a quick post to let whoever may actually be following those that they will be back.
The reason I haven’t…
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde (via thegirlwithbluehair)
The Desert Spear →
If you have yet to read The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett or even read The Painted Man (the book that precedes it and also known as The Warded Man in the US) you may not want to…
Reading Dilemma →
I have a dilemma and don’t really know what to do. I finished The Desert Spear this morning (review being posted tomorrow) and was going to read the Ravenor Omnibus by Dan Abnett because I feel like…
The Reading Battle: Won or Lost? →
You know when you start reading a book that turns out to be so engrossing that you end up reading it well into the night? The type of book where you’d read it all night long if you could and it gets…
May 2010
11 posts
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Ayn Rand
stupidquoteoftheday:
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.”
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“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite...”
– Franz Kafka (via allimuffin)
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“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via onenerdychick)
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Slow Reading Year and Updates →
I’ve been going through the sequel and trilogy books that have come out this year for me to read and the ones I have read so far. I am so behind on my reading this year that I’m quite surprised with…
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When it comes to buying books, which one are you?
500daysofkissingmypillow:
1. The Casual Buyer: The person who usually reads the latest NYT bestseller because they’ve heard of it through conventional means: print, TV, media, digital, what-have-you. These people buy, at most, 3 or 4 books a year, often to see what the “fuss” is about.
2. The General Reader: A person who enjoys reading, who is often asking for and giving recommendations, and...
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“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire...”
– Thomas Babington Macaulay (via nihilnoetia) (via obsidiantears83, nathanielstuart)
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I Got Excited...
all-i-love:
… and got another blog (Shoe Crazy) because I do love my shoes and there are so many pictures of shoes on here. I really could not help myself so that’s four now and I haven’t even been properly using Tumblr for 24 hours (I created a Tumblr account awhile back, but was too distracted to use it and forgot about it). Do you think I should be concerned?
Thought I’d share it on...
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New King Book
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Out November 2010.
I love Stephen King’s shorts and novellas so this makes me very happy (even though I haven’t been fanatical about Stephen King for awhile). I also dig the cover.