The Jugger by Richard Stark, part of his fantastic, genre defining Parker novels.
I hate telling people what to read but really - you should.
Friday, 29 January 2010
Monday, 18 January 2010
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Reading...
The To-Do List by Mike Gayle. I've never read any of his 30's lad-lit and probably won't, but I did enjoy this non-fiction which recounts his attempts to feel like a real grown up by tackling a to-do list of epic proportions filled with the sorts of things many 30-something parents would probably be familiar with.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Watching...
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
"Have you read Harry Potter Stu?"
"No, because I am a 40 year old man"
As a child, Stewart Lee helped out in his school library. What a loss to the profession.
"Have you read Harry Potter Stu?"
"No, because I am a 40 year old man"
As a child, Stewart Lee helped out in his school library. What a loss to the profession.
Well there you go...
This article from the dear old BBC on why this year probably won't be "The year of the electronic book"
Having worked in the book trade for 15 years, I can't remember a year since oooh, about 1997, that wasn't going to be "The year of the electronic book" but here we are, hanging on in there with our antiquated quill and ink.
Having worked in the book trade for 15 years, I can't remember a year since oooh, about 1997, that wasn't going to be "The year of the electronic book" but here we are, hanging on in there with our antiquated quill and ink.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Apocalypse (s)Now
So the opening of the newly refurbished Brynhyrfyd Library has had to be delayed by a week due to the dreaded white stuff.
It's a shame as this is probably one of our biggest transformations yet - with £35,000 worth of new books really making a big difference to the stock and the building totally revamped inside and out.
Brynhyfryd will now open on Saturday 16th.
It's a shame as this is probably one of our biggest transformations yet - with £35,000 worth of new books really making a big difference to the stock and the building totally revamped inside and out.
Brynhyfryd will now open on Saturday 16th.
The thing about blogs...
is that they don't write themselves, even when you're really busy. What you need is someone to come along and invent something that extracts thoughts from your head and turns them into erudite and thought provoking blog posts, making you look simultaneously intelligent, witty, hard working, irreplaceable, beloved of the masses and furthermore - stops your boss asking you why you haven't updated the blog for a while.
Kind of like that bit in minority report.
Now that, dear reader, would be a technological advance that would impress even me. Maybe even more than if Blogger came with a spell checker.
Instead we get this , which lets face it, no-one needs.
Kind of like that bit in minority report.
Now that, dear reader, would be a technological advance that would impress even me. Maybe even more than if Blogger came with a spell checker.
Instead we get this , which lets face it, no-one needs.
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