Sunday, February 20th, 2011
So I haven’t updated my blog in like forever, but, I have a pretty good excuse: I’ve been off travelling around the States, the UK and Europe (mostly Europe) since December. (The trip was awesome, by the way. LONDON I MISS YOU.) It turns out one can get a lot of reading done when one is travelling, so here it is.
(Incidentally, I didn’t lug all these books around with me; I read them on my iPhone using Stanza, which is a brilliant app. And, since I get asked this a lot, reading on the iPhone screen is generally fine – as long as you spend a bit of time working out your preferred font face, size and spacing before you commence the actual reading.) (more…)
Tags:4.50 from Paddington, A Caribbean Mystery, A Murder is Announced, A Short History of Nearly Everything, academia, Agatha Christie, Alan Grant, And Then There Were None, Ankh-Morpork, Bill Bailey, Bill Bryson, BookWorld, Dan Brown, dinosaurs, Discworld, dragons, Dungeon Dimensons, England, Europe, Freakonomics, Gossip Girl, Guns Germs and Steel, Hercule Poirot, Ian Malcolm, iPhone, Jared Diamond, Jasper Fforde, Jennifer Strange, Jurassic Park, Lisbeth Salander, London, magic, Michael Crichton, Mikael Blomkvist, Miss Marple, Moving Pictures, murder, Murder on the Orient Express, Mustrum Ridcully, old pussies, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, Paris, Pretty Little Liars, red herrings, Robert Langdon, Rube Goldberg, Sara Shepard, science, sex, Shades of Grey, St Mary Mead, Stanza, Steig Larsson, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt, Stockholm, Superman, Sweden, tag frenzy, Terry Pratchett, The Body in the Library, The Da Vinci Code, The Eyre Affair, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Last Dragonslayer, The Lost World, the Millennium series, The Millennium trilogy, They Do It With Mirrors, Thursday Next, Tiger Prawns, trains, trilogies, Tyrannosaurus Rex, United Kingdom, United States of America, Unseen University, wizards
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