I went to an invisible library yesterday. It was very cool. We stumbled upon it as we were wondering around the Charing Cross Road area and went to look at the old-fashioned second hand bookshops in Cecil Court. The Invisible Library is (until the end of today) a “library filled with books that have been [...]
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The invisible library
Posted in Books, Libraries, tagged art, Books, Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, gallery, INK Illustration, invisible library, library on July 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Art in unusual places
Posted in Books, Heart, Medical, NaBloPoMo, tagged art, arts, hospital, Music, paper cutting, Poetry, Rob Ryan on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was in hospital, one of the things that made my days more cheerful and my walk around the wards more interesting was a lovely collection of pictures featuring whimsical, pretty, sweet and sometimes slightly odd scenes cut out of paper. I think they were made by Rob Ryan. If I’m wrong I apologise! You can [...]
Monday, Monday
Posted in Books, NaBloPoMo, Weather, tagged Books, Monday, The Affinity Bridge, The House of the Dead, Weather on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday started off being quite Monday-ish, although I can’t really complain, as most of the Monday-ishness was self-inflicted! It started off with some grey weather and me putting on my shoes with holes in thinking that it would be OK. Silly me. Very shortly, the grey weather turned into wet weather and I had soggy socks and [...]
Beauty
Posted in Books, Ducks, Feelings, Love, Musings, christianity, tagged beauty, Books on August 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I visited Teuchter’s blog the other day, and read her post referring to Aphra Behn’s post about the beauty of teenage girls, so then I read Aphra Behn’s post, too. It’s thought-provoking, you should go and read it.
I don’t think I was beautiful as a teenager. Even if I were to look back at photographs of me aged [...]
Cold-accompanying brain fog
Posted in Blogging, Books, NaBlPoMo May2008, tagged Abhorsen, Abhorsen trilogy, Blogging, Books, cold, Garth Nix, Lirael, Sabriel, writing on May 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m still not feeling very inspired to write about voices, despite having my long list of possible topics. Today, I will blame the fact that I have caught a cold from somewhere, despite not having had muchcontact with the outside world for the past few weeks – not sure how I managed that! The cold-accompanying brain fog [...]
A reading meme
Posted in Blogging, Books, Libraries, Memes, NaBloPoMo, tagged Books, Libraries, reading on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I stole this from Reed, who stole it from Charlotte…
1. Do you remember learning to read? How old were you?
No, I don’t remember learning to read, but then again I don’t remember much about my early childhood. I think I vaguely remember my mum reading stories to me at bedtime and I remember that at [...]
I want to be a snow leopard
Posted in Animals, Books, Film, NaBloPoMo, tagged Books, cats, crow, fiction, fox, His Dark Materials, Northern Lights, ocelot, The Golden Compass on November 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Today at work we were very productive and did the “Meet Your Dæmon” quiz thing on The Golden Compass film website. We do work hard, honestly, but some of us were on break and decided to do the quiz and of course everyone else ‘had’ to join in. Most of Reader Services turned out to have rather [...]
My life in bookshops
Posted in Books, NaBloPoMo, tagged Books, bookshops, forgetfulness, independent bookshops, Libraries, reading on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Aggh, it’s 8pm and I haven’t even started writing yet! I made a few notes on the train home, but whether or not they will bear any resemblance to the finished post is questionable.
Today’s topic for consideration is the wonderful world of bookshops, or at least some snapshots of my small corner of it. I have [...]



