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I find myself at a blogging impasse, dear readers. Over the last couple of months my posting has been sporadic at best, and I’m trying to decipher the reasons for that. This is what I’ve come up with:
1. I’ve a lot going on at the moment. Today marks one month until I get married, so [...]
As those of you who follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook will know, I have been in hospital for a few days, which explains my latest blog absence. (Don’t worry, I’m home now and well on the mend.)
Anyway, recently kimbofo asked me to take part in her Triple Choice Tuesday [...]
Tomorrow I’m taking part in Cancer Research UK’s 5k “run” (I put that in inverted commas because it’s likely I’ll be walking most of it) in Oxford’s University Parks.
Why am I putting myself through it? Well, my aunt was recently diagnosed with cancer, though the prognosis excellent, and I wanted to do something to raise [...]
I continue to be a bad, bad blogger. Well, my great aunt’s funeral was yesterday, and I was away for a few days, and time seems to have altogether got away from me. It happens, I suppose.
The truth is, I still haven’t been reading as much as normal, and I’m finding it a real struggle [...]
It’s Random Monday again, and for those who couldn’t join me on the last two Mondays, this is what happens. I go to random.org, and get a random number between 1 and 1667. These numbers correlate to the books in my library on LibraryThing. I then match the random number to the relevant book in [...]
April 12, 2010 in fiction, personal, randomness
Tagged fiction, hogarth press, mrs dalloway, random monday, virginia woolf
Tagged fiction, hogarth press, mrs dalloway, random monday, virginia woolf
Monday is a good day for the random.
Trawling teh interwebz, as I tend to do, I stumbled upon All Lit Up, a newish blog by Jenny and Fliss, about – unsurprisingly – books. I’m already following Jenny’s personal blog, Babblings of a Beligerant Bibliophile, so I don’t know why it took me so long to [...]
March 29, 2010 in blogs, literature, personal, randomness
Tagged blogs, books, librarything, random monday
Tagged blogs, books, librarything, random monday
I am not convinced by e-readers. I can see that they have their benefits, especially for people who travel a lot. It means they can carry plenty of reading material without taking up a lot of baggage space. For people who have to read a lot of different things as part of their jobs – [...]
March 26, 2010 in fiction, personal, reading the orange prize, science & technology
Tagged app, e-books, hilary mantel, ipad, iphone, kindle, sony e-reader, wolf hall
Tagged app, e-books, hilary mantel, ipad, iphone, kindle, sony e-reader, wolf hall
It seems very fitting, given that I’m (still) reading Wolf Hall, that I spent most of yesterday wandering around here:
That’s the main quad – Tom Quad – of Christ Church, Oxford. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey founded the college (originally called Cardinal College) although he died before it was completed. Henry VIII then re-founded it in 1532 [...]
March 25, 2010 in fiction, personal, places
Tagged christ church, oxford, oxford literary festival, wolf hall
Tagged christ church, oxford, oxford literary festival, wolf hall
A round up of things bouncing around my head.
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I am absorbed in Wolf Hall. I’m about a third of the way through it, and all I really want to be doing is reading it, curled up on the sofa in front of the fire. There is always something nerve-racking about reading [...]
March 22, 2010 in blogs, book news, cats, fiction, not the tv book group, personal, prizes, reading the orange prize
Tagged books, cats, not the tv book group, reading the orange prize
Tagged books, cats, not the tv book group, reading the orange prize
I obviously don’t have enough to do. I mean, all I have on my plate is working full time, the Not the TV Book Group, the Women Unbound challenge, running a blog, planning a wedding, and, oh yeah, a social life (occasionally). So what have I decided to do? Read the entire Orange Prize for [...]
March 16, 2010 in fiction, personal, prizes, reading the orange prize
Tagged fiction, orange prize, prizes
Tagged fiction, orange prize, prizes
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