When I used to work in a library, I would scribble notes to myself during quiet moments on the counter. Ideas, or people who I wanted to remember, or things I overheard.
Clearing out my desk the other day yielded a flurry of these notelets, neatly folded white squares of paper that exploded out of a [...]
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When I daydream, the whole world shrinks around me; one blurry circle
Posted in Books, People, Writing on April 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thoughts and poems
Posted in Books, London, Love on February 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apart from a Valentines Day that was like an episode of EastEnders, my week has been relatively calm and quiet. Not feeling very chatty lately, almost as though I need my thoughts for warmth. Normally there are so many there is an excess. But now I am afraid to let any of them go, in [...]
A message from Philip Pullman…
Posted in Books, Happy, Writing on August 10, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Everything is going right today!! Everything I wrote to Philip Pullman via his official website a few weeks ago and I got a response! I was asking him if he knows everything that is going to happen in his stories ahead of time, and if he doesn’t isn’t it embarassing having the feeling [...]
Back to the grindstone…
Posted in Books, Happy on January 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
How desperately amusing; I’d almost forgotten I was starting an Open University course in Febuary… heh. Creative Writing. My course materials just arrived and they are beautiful, the workbook is a big shiny red thing that looks almost like a bible trying to be funky. This couldn’t have come at a better time, I’m ready [...]
The wait is almost over…
Posted in Books on July 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow my copy of Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince will be delivered to my door by Amazon and I will be at work. Not helpful that I work in a library! Absolutely not at all! All of our copies are reserved about 3 times over…The worst thing is that my mum might not [...]
Bookishness (or lack of)
Posted in Books on April 3, 2005 | 4 Comments »
From Clarablog, who got it from Dock of the Bay, and I have no idea who he got it from ) Heh.
Bold for read, italics for unfinished.
#1 The Bible#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes#4 The Koran#5 Arabian Nights#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain#7 Gulliver?s Travels by Jonathan Swift#8 [...]
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