Our very own BookElf is taking the city by storm! Well, the reading part of it anyway! Your average football fans are probably less aware... If you haven't followed the twitter links - please visit http://bit.ly/cT9S5M For Books Sake (linked on the main page) are featuring our intrepid book warrier, and her mission to make books … Continue reading Travelling Suitcase is famous!!! Famous I tell thee!
Author: Drneevil
Green Knowe – truely, madly, creepy!
I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned, the most enjoyable children's books always have some sort of a bite in them(is it the same as Young Adult? I've never known where the cut off point is there. Will check with the oracle in a bit! - UPDATE - she indicates that … Continue reading Green Knowe – truely, madly, creepy!
The Saga of the Noble Dead – or what Twilight isn’t…
****SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS***** Dhampire Thief of Lives Sister of the Dead Traitor to the Blood Rebel Fay Child of a Dead God ****SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS***** I am writing this in response to the incredible and outrageous adoration of the Twilight (Twishite) series - a set of books woefully written, with some … Continue reading The Saga of the Noble Dead – or what Twilight isn’t…
Natalie Williams
I warn you now, I might gush... So, many many moons ago, when faces were fresh, and tummys always seemed to be growling - there was a girl a year or so older than me in school - Natalie - who had a knack with language. She was always scribbling stories, plays, poems and songs … Continue reading Natalie Williams
Book Club the Sixth – Amended Order
Book Club the Sixth - BOOKELF - 05-05-2010 Agreed on: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (BookElf) Discussed: - The Island by Victoria Hislop - The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland - Dracula by Bram Stoker - Millenium Trilogy by Steig Larsson Right, down to buzz-y-ness. As I only completed our first topic book after … Continue reading Book Club the Sixth – Amended Order
Book Club the Fifth
Book Club the Fifth - BOOKN00B - 18-04-2010 Agreed on: The Island by Victoria Hislop (BookN00b) Discussed: - Firman by Sam Savage SPECIAL GUEST STAR - Lela - who is now 100 pages into The Book Thief! BOOKN00B hated the first chapter, which enraged her, resulting in her casting aside the book for about a … Continue reading Book Club the Fifth
Bloody Men – Wendy Cope
Bloody Men Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’re trying to read the destinations, You haven’t much time to decide. If you make a … Continue reading Bloody Men – Wendy Cope
Borrowed Books
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me. - Anatole France One of the best things about being friends with other book lovers, is that you invariably start to swap (diversion - it pains me that swap is … Continue reading Borrowed Books
The Lake Isle of Inishfree – W.B. Yates
The Lake Isle of Inishfree I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping … Continue reading The Lake Isle of Inishfree – W.B. Yates
Sabrina Fair – John Milton
Sabrina Fair Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that livst unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well. Canst thou not tell me of a gentle Pair That likest thy Narcissus are? O if thou have Hid … Continue reading Sabrina Fair – John Milton
