“This must be Thursday,” said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, “I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
Arthur Dent: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Carl from Stainless Steel Droppings, is hosting the Out of This World mini-challenge this weekend as a part of both the Sci-Fi Experience and the challenge in Dewey’s memory. The idea is just to read at least one Science Fiction short story over the weekend. Carl even provides a link to a fabulous online [...]

The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
Jewel and Thorn by Richard Poole
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
Starseeker by Tim Bowler
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
The Tales of Beedle the [...]

It was the winner of the 1998 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Children) so it should not come as a surprise that I am reading these books as part of the Mythopoeic Reading Challenge.
They won the award as a trilogy so only counts as one book towards that challenge, and so short are the individual books (around [...]

Well, yet another challenge I’m signing myself up for!
I’m a little useless in making the effort to read short stories, so hopefully this is just the thing to get me through those short story collections cluttering up my TBR pile. And best of all there is no time limit, so I can just read the [...]

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This week’s theme is: catch up on… something.
Weekly Geeks #6 was catch up on reviews week, but so many of you organized bloggers were caught up with reviews that you chose to catch up on other things. So I kept in mind that a catch-up week every now and then [...]

Found via BookEmbargo and The Guardian’s site.
Now this does sound interesting…
Douglas Adams’s increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy is to be extended to six titles, after Adams’s widow Jane Belson sanctioned a project which will see children’s author Eoin Colfer taking up the story.

And Another Thing… by Colfer, whose involvement with the [...]

As I’ve just joined yet another challenge, I thought it might be time to take stock and take a look at how I’m doing with them.

Squeaky swings and tall grass
The longest shadows ever cast
The water’s warm and children swim
And we frolicked about in our summer skin
© Death Cab for Cutie
Welcome Sunday Saloners!
Well as regular visitors (who aren’t reading this in a RRS feed!) might have noticed I’ve changed my site’s skin to something a little brighter and more in keeping [...]

Suggested by: Nithin
Here’s another idea about memorable first lines from books.
What are your favourite first sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its first sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the first line?
Sentences… I like that, it gives you a [...]