I love Last.fm. I love being able to track exactly what I’ve been listening to, when, over the last two years. I love finding other artists and albums that I should enjoy. And I love finding other people who like the same music as me.
I love reading. I read, easily, a book a week. Often [...]
Newsweek has a fun article about the effect Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will have on summer holiday camps: [via TLC]
Peter Kassen of Maine’s Hidden Valley Camp is issuing a gag order for his faster readers. “We as a community will be sworn to secrecy,” he says. “We want to make sure [...]
Well, there goes my 7-7-7 theory (that is, that Book 7 would be published on 7/7/07)…
Let the pre-orders commence!
(JKR)
Update: according to Bloomsbury, the two versions of the book have an RRP of a whopping £17.99 (approx $35), making them the most expensive Potter novels yet…
…but it looks like Waterstone’s is price-matching Amazon.co.uk, selling both editions [...]
Umm… we don’t have any idea when it’s going to be published, and we don’t know it’s price, but the seventh and final Harry Potter novel already holds the top two spots on Amazon’s bestselling books chart…
I’m still adamant the book will be released on July 7 this year – 7/7/7 – although that does [...]
Since I discovered last week that Costa were taking over the Whitbread Book Awards, I’ve been ruminating on what that means. Don’t ask why… it just seems to have got stuck in my mind.
It’s not just that asking “Who won this year’s Costa?” sounds even worse than “Martin Amis won last year’s MAN Booker”.
One thing [...]
I just wanted to share this passage with you. It’s from a novel by a chappy called Paul Micou, The Cover Artist, which I found at the British Council the other week:
Drunk and discombobulated, Oscar Lemoine bounced on to the windswept tarmac of Val d’Argent’s private airport in the middle of a November [...]
Tagged by Rob:
Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest. Tag three people.
Here [...]
b-minus-5 and counting: the Blogathon is on Saturday – that’s this Saturday – and very few people have pledged to sponsor me. Come on!
If I don’t get sponsorship you won’t get to hear my witty anecdotes about meeting such literary luminaries as Johnny Ball and Bobby Robson (yes, that Bobby Robson). Can you afford to [...]
I have been meaning for some time to collect all my reviews together in one place. I’ve just never had the time to sit and shift them across from one blog to another. But changes are afoot…
This year – nay, this month – I’m going to be taking part in the Blogathon, a 24-hour sponsored [...]
So, I’ve been a bit lax posting around here recently. Sorry about that. Summative essays, other college stuff, other other stuff… it all started adding up. But here’s something new, anyway.
I thought I might share a few of the books I’ve been reading recently. Not the boring texts for uni – no, these are genuine [...]