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Shot of Short #3: The Duke of Wellington Misplaces his Horse
Title: The Duke of Wellington Misplaces his Horse
By: Susanna Clarke
Collection: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Summary: The Duke of Wellington, visits the village of Wall from Neil Gaiman’s Stardust.
Thoughts: Enjoyed this one a lot more that the previous ones in the collection - perhaps that’s down to it being set in a world [...]
Mailbox Monday: 17/11/08
Via: The Printed Page
Booking Through Thursday: Why Buy?
This weeks Booking Through Thursday asks: Why Buy?
If you usually buy your books, tell me why. Why buy instead of borrow? Why shell out your hard-earned dollars for something you could get for free?
I’m going to offer up a couple of pictures before I begin, that will help illustrate my first point, that just like [...]
Book Bloggers Christmas Swap
Well, this looked a lot of fun so I signed up.
Dewy and Nymeth are running ‘The Book Bloggers Christmas Swap’, again this year, I only really joined in the book blogging world, in January of this year, so I missed this event last time around, but not this time!
From the site:
“What you have to do [...]
2009 Challenges (So Far)
Well, returning to work this week as played havoc with my ability to write my NaNoWriMo (my brain has been far too mushy!) so procrastinating instead of writing tonight, I signed up for another challenge to take me through 2009, 3m’s The Countdown Challenge, I’d seen this one about the place, but had been initially [...]
Mailbox Monday: 10/11/08
photo credit: Kaptain Kobold
The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)
The Good Fairies of New York
Daughter of the Blood (Black Jewels, Book 1)
The Sunday Salon: Making Time
Well despite being off of work for the last week, I haven’t managed to read a thing…
This is of course due to me taking part in NaNoWriMo once again, it has been worth forsaking the books though, as - at least for now - I am well ahead of schedule, we will see how long [...]
Corr… Look at That! (aka Book Porn)
In my defence, I did have a money of voucher to use up this weekend, and it is my Chrismas present to myself (and I’ll be good and put it away until then), but I couldn’t resist this Waterstones limited edition. (#2498/5000).
Thankfully the red sticker comes off, and at least I now know what I’ll [...]
The Reason Blogging is Light Around Here.
Yes, despite the fact that I have been procrastinating madly by re-skinning the site and downloading the 2.7 beta of WordPress to play with, as the blue badge to the right would indicate I am indeed taking part in NaNoWriMo this year (My fifth year!). So if posts are few and far between, you now [...]
October Wrap-Up
New Books to the Shelf
And out of the 10 books in this month, 8 have already been read! (how good am I?!) Which 8? you ask? Well they are listed below.
Thanks to:
Ann-Kat, katrina, Joanne, Nymeth, robaroundbooks, Sally, Shelly, Wrighty, Susan, Chris, Bethany, 3m, gautami, veens, Teresa, Word Lilly, Sprite, Jessie, Jodie, Lucie D, Shari, valentina, [...]
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