Tomorrow, I will be starting a new blogging challenge: the February Book Challenge! (sorry about the unoriginal title!) This time i’m going to attempt the 30 Day Book Challenge, which i discovered on Facebook! I’ll be answering a new set of book-related questions! Although, as February only has 29 days, i will have to find a way [...]
Archive for January, 2012
February Book Challenge 2012 begins tomorrow!
Posted: January 31, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Books, Facebook, February, February Book Challenge, Twitter
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A Giant Bookshelf? Why not!?
Posted: January 31, 2012 in Books and their issuesTags: Architecture, Book, Books, Building, Kansas City Public Library, Library, Literature, Missouri, United States
This is possibly the best mashup of books and architecture! Books? Check. Architecture? Check. Both? Hell yeah! This is the Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA) and it is quite something! I found this via a link on Facebook and was so intrigued by this building that looks like one giant bookshelf!! Just imagine, if you had [...]
Book Review: Grimm’s Fairy Stories
Posted: January 31, 2012 in Book ReviewsTags: Amazon Kindle, Book, Books, Briar Rose, Brothers Grimm, Children, Children's literature, Digital, E-book, fairytale, fantasy, Grimm, Kindle, Reading, Six Swans, The Walt Disney Company
I have been reading Grimm’s Fairy Stories on my Kindle and really enjoyed re-reading stories from my childhood! These are the early versions of the stories we know and love, although they are a bit darker than the modern Disney versions we know, but that makes them much better i think! My favourite stories include: [...]
Book Review: Sense and Sensibility
Posted: January 31, 2012 in Book ReviewsTags: Book, Book Review, Books, Classic, Edward, Elinor, Elinor Dashwood, Jane Austen, Literature, Marianne Dashwood, Reading, Sense & Sensibility, Sensibility
I have finally finished reading “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen, having spent the last 9 days trying to get through it. I discovered that my mum has the complete collection of Jane Austen’s works so i decided, because i have only read “Pride and Prejudice” (and that was a while ago and i know [...]
Books I NEED to read
Posted: January 29, 2012 in Books and their issuesTags: Book, Book of Lost Souls, Books, Cinder (novel), Hunger Games, Michelle Muto, Reading, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, Twitter
Everyone has books they want to read. I am no different. Lately i’ve been more intrigued by books which suddenly seem to be getting more airtime, or that i’m interested in. Examples of such books: 1) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins- Everyone is going on about this series, and i hear there is to [...]
My Bookmarks
Posted: January 29, 2012 in Books and their issuesTags: Book, Bookmarks, Books, FILI, Literature, Post-it note, Reading, Train ticket
I use all sorts of things to bookmark my page in a book i’m reading, depending where i am. On trains, when i have bought a new book before starting on a journey, i will use my train ticket, like this one which is now living in a book i started back in 2010 despite [...]
More books i find at work
Posted: January 29, 2012 in Books and their issuesTags: Book, Books, Books I find At Work, Literature, Reading
I only found book today as i was busy! Today’s find: “Midnight” by Josephine Cox
Books I find at work
Posted: January 28, 2012 in Books and their issuesTags: Amazon, Book, Book Review, Books I find At Work, Boudica, Day Of The Triffids, Hound, Literature, Manda Scott, Reading, Triffid
Suddenly i’m finding books everyday at the moment! Found a few random choices which i’ve never heard of before today! Today’s finds: “When The Lights Go On Again” by Annie Groves “Dreaming The Hound (Boudica 3)” by Manda Scott “The Day Of The Triffids” by John Wyndham
