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Category Archives: Bibliophilia

Books Running Through the Veins

If you can read Danish, it might amuse you to know that the editor of Bogrummet (The Book Room) is my cousin. I sorta-kinda-almost knew what she had been doing with her time, but it had sorta-kinda-almost slipped my mind.
It’s still very cool and utterly amusing in a absolutely-definitely way.

Posted 28 February 2008 † Karie § Blogging § Personal ‡ Comments (0)

Bringing Gifts

Look what the postman just brought! Seven copies of Odd and the Frost Giant by Neil Gaiman. This means that the non-UK people who requested a copy will receive one very, very soon. Hooray!

Posted 28 February 2008 † Karie § ‡ Comments (3)

The Evening Before the Day

Having just finished Scarlett Thomas’ “PopCo”, I find myself longing for non-contemporary novels. I have been reading many books recently but all have all been written within the last thirty years. I long for a different sort of prose, a different perspective. And so I have been looking at my book shelves, thought about the [...]

Posted 10 February 2008 † Karie § Literature § Personal ‡ Comments (6)

Bitten By the Bug

If you look at the “Now Reading” bit in the sidebar, you can see that I’m tearing through the novels at the moment. Five novels thus far this month and that is not even counting Douglas Coupland’s jPod which I finished just around the 2007-2008 shift. I’ll be honest with you: I do not have [...]

Posted 21 January 2008 † Karie § Personal ‡ Comments (2)

Book Widgets

I have been playing around with widgets today trying to find the perfect a suitable library-type widget for displaying current and past reads. I found the Now Reading widget and it seemed great. It was simple, didn’t require me to sign up to a website (Shelfari, anyone?) nor did it provide me with intrusive graphics [...]

Posted 14 January 2008 † Karie § Blogging ‡ Comments (2)

Apologies to WCW

This is just to say
that amazon.co.uk is
running a couple of promotions
which end on Sunday.
I just placed an order worth
roughly £18 for some fiction
that would’ve set me back far more.
Forgive me but the books were
so delicious
so sweet
and so cheap.

Posted 10 January 2008 † Karie § ‡ Comments (1)