The Glasgow Botanic Garden is a treasure grove of abandoned Victorian buildings, rose gardens, playing grounds, medicinal plant beds, squirrels chasing squirrels and big glasshouses filled to the brim with exotic plants.
For some unfathomable reason, a property developer has decided that it would be a really fantastic idea to put a nightclub in [...]
Karie Bookish
Asides
- Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway
September 19, 2008A gorgeous, gorgeous song. I can't believe I never watched the video before now.
- Patrick Wolf- Danzing
September 7, 2008Patrick Wolf does Eurovision! (the 2007 offering from Ukraine, worryingly enough)
- Bulgakov Goes Glasgow
August 26, 2008Franz Ferdinand - Love & Destroy - inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (which you should absolutely read).
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
August 22, 2008Gorgeous version by Kira Skov and Marie Fisker.
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray
Current books:
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An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Recent books:
- Going Out by Scarlett Thomas
- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
- Arabella by Georgette Heyer
- Wait Until Midnight by Amanda Quick
- The Devil in Amber: A Lucifer Box Novel by Mark Gatiss
