The invisible library

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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Art in unusual places

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 [...]

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Monday, Monday

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 [...]

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What if everyone could hear everyone else’s heartbeat?

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sound of our heartbeats through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar?
Being able to hear your [...]

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Beauty

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 [...]

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Books by post

Nothing to do with voices, but never mind…
I love books, and I love getting post, so getting books through the post is something I find very exciting. Due to me being off sick and them being lovely, my colleagues at the Library of Doom sent me a card, some chocolates and a Waterstone’s voucher. Their generosity was [...]

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Cold-accompanying brain fog

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 [...]

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A reading meme

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 [...]

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I want to be a snow leopard

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 [...]

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My life in bookshops

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 [...]

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