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[Sep. 8th, 2009|03:26 pm] |
A rush job as usual! This goes back a little way and it does have more than my share of children's books (Way more since I'm 24...lol)
26. "Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke.
My favourite book this year by far. I've heard critics complain about the unnecessary length of the book but I think it fits perfectly with the genre this book emmulates so so well. Love it and highly recommend it!
27. "Come like Shadows" by Simon Raven
28. "lowside of the road: alife of Tom Waits" by Barney Hoskyns
Besides feeling every so guilty about being a waits fan and buying a biography that i know the man himself never wanted to happen...a good read. Made even better by the fact that I got to meet the Author at a special waits cover gig :D
29. "The tradgedy of man" by Imre Maduch
30. "Lucifer: Devil in the gateway" by Mike Carey
Like everyone who read the "Sandman" series I have wanted to read all the spin-of series. This doesn't disappoint.
31. "The invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brain Selznick.
32. "The birthday of the World" by Ursula Le Guin
This woman is genius, sci-fi needn't be all lazers and spaceships. Brilliant.
33. "F**k it" by John C. Parkin
I just loved it that there was a self-help book with this title. The message is clear and it works. Just sigh, say f*k it and the stress will fall away :D
34. "Skulduggery Pleasant" by Derek Landry.
Really loved this, some great dialogue but most definitely set for a younger audience. Still worth a read! |
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| Catch up.. |
[May. 29th, 2009|07:14 pm] |
AS usual this place needs some house keeping, I never update anymore!:(
Oh well, I'm boring anyway!:D
Going on Holidays to Costa Brava, Spain tomorrow evening! Eeeee!
Can't wait! I've never gone for the whole package holiday thing but I'm just dying to get away somewhere nice to lie around reading and taking up space! :D
Hopefully we'll get up to Barcelona for a day or two to see the sites.
Muchos LJ to all (My spanish is good, eh? ;D )
50 Book Challenge update:
18- "After Dark" by Haruki Murakami
I love the visual style, he walks us through the narrative like a director does a movie scene.
19- "The Umbrella Academy" by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba
Awesome but somehow a little disjointed.
20- "The Snake's Pass" by Bram Stoker
I wasn't sure what to expect with this but it is absolutely a love story with a moral tale wrapped in. Initially I was a bit annoyed as an Irish person to hear 5 "Begor!'s" in a paragraph but theres something very endearing about this book and I ended up liking it.
21- "Abhorsen" by Garth Nix
I loved this Trilogy. I think "Sabriel" is my still my favourite but this ending didn't disappoint me :D
22- "Buffy the vampire slayer: Time of your life" by Joss Whedon
Ok but i expected so much more :(
23- "Age of Desire" by Clive Barker (Graphic novel. ills. Timothy Bradstreet)
Disturbingly brilliant, I need to read the novel.
24. "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" by A.C. Doyle
I've been watching the old TV series for years and i can't believe it's taken me this long to read this! Really Brilliant, Holmes is such a lovelable eccentric, i love the formula of each crime solved. After reading this I realise how brilliantly cast the TV series had been!
I wonder how the new movie is going to stand up? :D
25. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I adored this book. It's so brilliantly written and atmospheric, highly receommended.
However, I think I would have enjoyed it that tiny bit more if there had been no conclusion chapter. Maybe it's just me! |
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| ooooooo.... |
[Apr. 4th, 2009|07:29 am] |
The Land of livejournal is now strange and foreign to me...*Wanders around opening doors and looking in drawers*
I swear by Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan I *shall* start posting again!! :D
Nowt much amazing with me, am very much looking forward to visiting my lovely sis Darkelfqueen in about a week!
We're going to see ACDC and a show of the music from LOTR. Wheeee!
Also went to a fabulous gig to see Bellx1 last night, they were brilliant, even though it's my friend who the big fan.
I also turn 24 a week today! Aaahhh! Thats so weird, I'm practically a grown up ;D
But bigger still, I realy can't wait to see the new Wolverine movie. It has deadpool in it...DEADPOOL! *GEekGaSm*
I have a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that it will be pants though- I REALLY hope I'm wrong! |
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| Happy Hallmark day! |
[Feb. 14th, 2009|08:26 am] |
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hope all of you are loved up today, surrounded by expensive and sexy things........ ;D |
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| 16th? Holy crap!! |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|04:44 pm] |
It's so bizarre that its X-mas next week! Can't get my head arounf it. For the first year since I was 16 I won't have studying OR work around X-mas and I've been feeling very christmassy because I haven't been working in retail.
REALLY makes X-mas more enjoyable! |
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[Nov. 22nd, 2008|12:56 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work.. | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Kings of leon | ] |
Wow, I really don't get to post in this thing!lol
Main news is that I was burgaled last week, me and lovely gothicDraco got our laptops stolen from our rooms. As you may imagine I was, of course, enraged. I had all my photos and music, tv shows I hadn't watched yet and I'm pretty sure the only copy of my dissertation (1 year to write and research) was on it. I'm just hoping that I had the wit to back most of it onto my mums computer first. I feel really bad for gothicdraco because her laptop was brand new, 3 weeks old.
Mostly I'm just so angry that some thieving little shit was in my house looking through my things.
But alas, live goes on...at least I know what I want for X-mas.lol
As an extra kick, my horoscope the day I was robbed:
"Mars remains in your solar eigth house and you are still in a good position to dump anything that is either outmoded or devoid of any real use. Aries travels best when it travels light and that is certainly true at the present time. You may even be quite ruthless in your determination to get rid of anything unnecessary"
POOH.
Lots going on for once, been very busy with work and have hopefully got 23rd-5th Jan off using only 6 of my days annual leave! I'm also getting next wednedsay/thursday/friday off. Being a civil servant is soooo hard ;D
The work is getting alot more documented and pissy which I'm not enjoying much, I just can't wait to get off for a while.
At work at the minute, have had 1 day off in the last 2 weeks. Kerrie brain not good...Kerrie sleep now.... |
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| I LIVE STILL..... :D XD :) |
[Sep. 21st, 2008|12:43 am] |
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| |  WaTa! | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Anna Ternheim | ] |
**Happy birthday my dear, sweet darkelfqueen!!:D I can't say it enough!
I will be sending you virtual hugs all day today!! :) I hope its a great one!!****
Not much going on in my realm of biscuits (occasionally with tea and chocolate..and yet more biscuits). Work is still going ok, finally seeing an end to some of my immediate debts ;P
Strangely I also seem to be carving out some hope of a social life in the next few weeks too! Woots! I have tickets to see Amanda Palmer next sunday (can't wait!), also have tickets for Dylan Moran and Seasick Steve in October- been too long since I've seen a good gig.
*Waves excitedly to f'list* for those who care I live still! ;)
Hope you are all spiffing! :D |
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[Jul. 29th, 2008|03:43 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | music |
| | MUSE- supermassive black hole | ] |
Thank god its payday on thursday, as usual I've reamed myself financially all month and am sorely in need of some dosh so I can reclaim my life. Plans to go out on Thursday, friday and saturday but very much doubt I'll have the energy for it all but am dying for a bit of craic!:)
No massive news, still surprisingly loving my new job but go properly live next week. EEk! We'll see how much I love it then.lol
Hope you are all shiney! |
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| #44. |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|03:43 pm] |
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#44. "Mc Sweeney's mammoth treasury of thrilling tales" Ed. Michael Chabon.
A wonderful mixture of a boy's adventure book ans a revival of the short stories I loved growing up. Stories by Neil Gaiman, Stephen and Harlan Ellison. What more can you ask for?!
Highly recommended! :D |
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| I *heart* Livejournal! :D |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|04:18 pm] |
I've just got internet access at work and despite everything else that I can't get I have access to sweet, sweet livejournal (for now!):D
Hope you are all having a painfree monday! |
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| #41-43. |
[Jun. 22nd, 2008|07:14 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | minnie the moocher-blues bros OST | ] |
#41 "The Hippopotamus" by Stephen Fry.
As usual its such a pleasure to read anything stephen Fry writes I'm convinced he could make anything interesting just by his wonderful turn of phrase. Thankfully this has a great (if weird)plot that made it addictive;D
#42 "The Time waster letters" by Robin Cooper.
Somebody had to get around to writing this eventualy i'm glad it was robin cooper. Great ideas for letters, now I know waht to do with my spare time.
#43 "The Two Towers" by J.R.R Tolkien.
A re-read, I will never not love this trilogy :D
Nearly at 50 already! WOOT! |
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[Jun. 8th, 2008|03:10 pm] |
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| | sweet dreams | ] |
I forgot what an awesome movie "Assault on precinct 13" was (I'm talking the original one!), stayed up ridiculously late watching that and "Osmosis Jones" (He's one cell of a guy!;). I can't wait to get internet access at work!
Anyhoo was routing through my phone and have an alarming number of drunken photos.lol
What is it about being drunk and needing to take random poser pics of yourself?lol
( Drunk? Why yes! How did you guess?! ) |
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| ich bin weird.. |
[May. 31st, 2008|05:38 pm] |
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So nice to have one's weekends to one's self. Finally Left Iceland after 6 1/2 years and have been a civil servant for 3 weeks. Sounds ikkier than it is and the pay is awesome.lol :D
So now I fanillay only have one and not 2 jobs and have the weekends to myself, though I haven't been paid yet for some bizarre reason despite the fact that everybody else on my team has. *sigh* no drinkys for moi it would seem.
I'm a little freaked out today because it was a beautiful sunny day when I woke this morning, I fell back to sleep and had a really vivid dream that I was standing in a thunder storm trying to hang clothes on a washing line. I got up and done the laundry, put it on the washing line and 3 hours later there is now torrential rainn and thunder. I swear to my many gods that I haven't watched TV in weeks or talked about the weather in a few days. I'm actuyally very freaked out.....Not to mention that the almost dry clothes that were on the line are now sopping wet. feck.lol |
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| May the forth be with you!!:D |
[May. 4th, 2008|02:40 pm] |
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| | neh,neh,neh,na,na,na and then another neh, na, na,neh na, na,na,na... | ] |
Happy star wars day everybody!:D
I finally have a new job! So happy, but very sad to be leaving all the nice people in my current job:( Although the crappy thing is that I have to work there on the weekends for about 2 weeks while also working full time for the civil service. I'm getting paid monthly so I'm going to be broke until my first paycheck and will have to be fairly sensible with money after that!D'oh!
It feels so good to actually be making things happen for a change, I've been sitting on my bum for too long. I may actually be able to start paying off my overdraft and book a holiday at some point.Woot!
Hope you are all shiney and full of star wars related joy today!:D |
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| It lives!! |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|06:08 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | deaths door | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | got my wallet back! | ] |
Had a really good birthday night , saw lots of people I haven't seen in an age and got incredibly drunk while not paying for a single drink:)
That said I had about 50 too many jars and managed to: steal my friends coat, loose my wallet (including drivers liscence, credit card, debit card, 4 bank cards and about £20 quid inside), fall down and throw chips all over myself, bang my head really hard, buy pies and puff pastries for my mum (which I don't remember doing) and talk rubbish in general. I was also laughing maniacally while doing all these things and have spent the day giving the coat back and eventually finding my wallet. Overall great craic.lol.
Its 6.45 in th evening and I still feel like rubbish though.lol
Many many thanks to gorgeous Gothicdraco for not only coming out after a long day but for looking after (or should I say "putting up" with) me in my giddy, drunken state:) Lub Joo!!
Miss Boo and Mr. Catman, wasn't the same without you both:( we will most definately catch up very very soon I hope!xoxo |
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| Happy Birthday to me! |
[Apr. 11th, 2008|02:56 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
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| |  okay | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Waits- Never let go | ] |
23 years on planet earth!!
I feel like a crusty old sage.lol
Its been a very quiet one so far, some plans for drinKies later- Everyone who can make it to the pubs of Enniskillen are welcome to come and join the craic!:D
Happy Friday to everyone!lol |
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| "Iron in the soul" by Jean-Paul Satre |
[Mar. 9th, 2008|02:58 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | tom waits- hold on | ] |
"I have decided that death has all along been the secret of my life, that I have lived for the sole purpose of dying. I die in order to demonstrate the impossibility of living. My eyes will put an extinguisher upon the earth and shut it down forever.
The earth raised its topsy- turvy face to the dying man: the foundering sky swept across him with all its stars.
But Mathieu kept watch without so much as designing to pick up these useless gifts." |
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| nicked from precious destiny! Ta!:D |
[Mar. 9th, 2008|02:38 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Waits- shiny things | ] |
Powered By Adult Toy
Any takers because I'm broke-broke....lol
All well with me, still in cruddy job but lost the will to fight back. Happy that the weather is now between winter and being warmer- my favourite! |
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| post valentine two cents |
[Feb. 16th, 2008|04:16 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | okay | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Various youtubage | ] |
Quiet, almost non- exsistent on valentines day. Very little happening with me at the mo! Have come to love regina spektor in the last week though. So here are my stolen sentiments for the day:
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again
'Tis Pretty!:D |
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| Eeep. |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|04:14 pm] |
I live still. all is quiet but good except this excruciating pain in my back- why always at the weekends?:(
More luck on the job hunt This week, I have a 4hr test for the civil service on friday, despite the stigma of civil service it would be SO much better than breaking my back (literally) in iceland!
Be shiney!! |
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