Everything Is Better With Dragons
Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
I’ve just had a phone call from the library; they’ve got (finally!) the latest Science of Discworld. I’m going to collect it this afternoon. When I get back, and before I start reading it, I’m going to review a couple of e-books I downloaded yesterday.
The first ‘Georgiana Darcy’s Diary’ by Anna Elliott is a continuation of the Jane Austen classic ‘Pride and Prejudice’, and the second is a celebratory edition of the ‘For Dummies…’ series marking their 20th anniversary.
Bye for one,
Rose
I found my way to a website called http://www.everythingbooksandauthors.com/ this morning, and on their ‘Special Offers & Freebies’ page there were a few books that I thought looked interesting. I’m going to read them all and review them.
I love having the Kindle for PC app. I have so many books on it, most of them free.
Bye
Rose
I borrowed this book from the library last week and I’m making my way through it. I’ve never read any Dean Koontz books before, and I’m enjoying it. Proper review to follow when I finish it.
[EDIT: I couldn’t finish it. But the bit I read wasn’t bad, I just couldn’t get on with the writing style.]
I’m currently reading a book I’m reviewing for Book Hub Inc, and it’s sending me batty. I’ve never reviewed books for other people before; I generally read something because it’s taken my interest and then write about it. But I thought I’d give it a go.
I chose a non-fiction book that the title and blurb suggested was scientific in nature. I’m about a third of the way through it, and I want to slap the author. No, really I do. My question is, when I write my review how blunt am I allowed to be? Is, say, a variation on ‘the author is ignorant and talking out of their arse’ too much? My ‘I don’t like misinformation’ sense is screaming, thus the itchy palms.
I might be forced to write two reviews, the polite version for the company I’m reviewing for, and the blunt version for here. They’ll both say the same thing, just with different words.
Right, back to it.
Rose
I really like my Spotify account. All that music, just waiting to be played. And all completely legally as well. It’s great.
Well, except for the slight problem that when I’m waiting for new albums to drop I have to wait just a bit longer. If I could afford it I’d buy hard copies of most of the albums I would like; but I can’t and Spotify gets me round that problem. I buy very few physical copies of albums, which is usually fine, an arrangement I’m happy with because I don’t have a huge amount of space and some stuff is difficult to get hold of.
But not right now, right now I really want to hear the new Fall Out Boy and Sacred Mother Tongue albums.
And I can’t.
Because Spotify doesn’t have them yet. They’re on iTunes already, and it’s not long past midnight. I shall check again later today, but it’s very frustrating all this waiting.
Rose
[Edit: I’ve just thought of something else that frustrates me about being broke; I have no internet connection, which leaves me relying on friends and family for the use of their wifi, which I hate. 20/04/2013]
I have a job interview next week.
If I get the job I’ll probably be working twelve hour shifts, which means I’ll have less time for writing, but more money to do the things I like to write about. It’ll work out somehow. I’m not going to stop writing just because I finally get a decent lab job.
That’s it, that’s all I was going to say.
Hang on, no it’s not.
I was reading ‘The shifting price of prey’ by Suzanne McLeod, but I couldn’t get into it, despite enjoying the earlier books in the ‘Spellcrackers.com’ series. It’s going back to the library. I might take it out again in the future.
Books I’m looking forward to reading this year include:
The Science of Discworld IV by Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
Published 11th April 2013
The Long War by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Published 20th June 2013
Albums I am looking forward to hearing this year:
Fall Out Boy
‘Save Rock and Roll’
15th April 2013
Sacred Mother Tongue
‘Out Of The Darkness’
15th April 2013
HIM
‘Tears on Tape’
29th April 2013
30 Seconds to Mars
‘Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams’
21st May 2013
I intend to review them all.
And now I must go, I’ve got a computer booked at the library in ten minutes.
Bye Bye
Rose
This morning I took my nephew to the library to get some more books and to take my book back. I had no intention of getting another book, since I still have two other books to finish reading, but then I saw this book, ‘The Wisdom of the Shire’ by Noble Smith.
I don’t generally go in for ‘self-help’ books but I have a thing for the works of JRR Tolkien and the book seemed to be a different take on the whole world of Middle Earth. So I’m going to read it. But first I’m going to follow Mr Smith’s advice and get some sleep because I’m tired.
I’ll let you know what I think of the book when I finish it. Have a nice afternoon, and I hope you’re all safely in your Hobbit-holes nice and warm in this cold weather.
Bye,
Rose
Reading choices today, because I’m too tired to write the four posts I have planned. They’re all written in my notebook (I had to do something while I was waiting for the train yesterday).
Any suggestions for new books for me to read? Not that I don’t have a pile of books I’m reading simultaneously at the moment but they are mostly ones I’ve read before and I’d like some variety.
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