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Some stunning jewellery from Norwegian designer, Bjørg . I’ll have all of these, and the SciFi/Fantasy first editions from Abebooks please.Right. Now it’s time to clean the bathroom, then it’s off to find a Swedish costume for my friend’s Hen’s Night. Of course I’m going as the most obvious Swedish choice:Ingrid Bergman.

From Abebooks.com, my favourite supplier of book porn… Science Fiction and Fantasy First Editions If money was no object and you wanted to create the ultimate modern science fiction and fantasy rare book collection in a single swoop, then The Fine Books Company in Rochester, Michigan, is offering first editions of all the Hugo and Nebula…… Continue reading Got a spare $116,530.00 kicking around somewhere?

Long time, no post.Still no internet at home, and the hours I’ve spent at uni have been theoretically devoted to working on my thesis (although no new wordage has happened on that front all week. My brain just ain’t playing nice when it comes to Icelandic genealogies. And I left my USB at home today,…… Continue reading Well, hello there.

Every week, Abebooks.com delivers some tantalising book porn to my inbox. I usually go through a four step ‘drool, covet, check bank account, delete email’ process upon receiving these newsletters, but this week’s selection deserves an LJ post of its own.We wants all of these, precioussss…. Even the ones we’ve already got…Recommended Post-Apocalyptic FictionAfter London…… Continue reading Some book porn: from me to you.

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=18199And there’s another one of our classic ‘Sopranos’ Clarion group shots (this time fronted by the lovely Trent Jamieson). Yeah, we’re bad-asses.

This is how I feel this afternoon:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPgqfHYeI0QShiny happy Lisa 🙂

It’s boring passages like this one that have forced me to surf the internet far too much today:“In AM 415 4to there is a collection of genealogies which as a whole is similar to that in AM 1 e ß II fol., though the order is different: here there is a langfeðgatal tracing the Yngling line through Óðinn back to…… Continue reading Why the internet is so tempting…

Because I can’t help but read articles that have got something to do with vampires. And this one’s almost scholarly, so it’s almost like I’m working on my thesis… I’m sure my supervisor would see the relevance, somehow:www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126985.200-vampire-discovered-in-mass-grave.htmlSurvived the move (which took 9 hours, thanks to the 100 boxes of books). Many boxes still left to…… Continue reading I can haz Vampyrz

Having no internet connection at home SUCKS.Moving house at VERY short notice also SUCKS.Moving away from bogan landlord and his bogan family ROCKS.Packing up 100 boxes of books (this is, (un)fortunately, not an exaggerated number. I counted.) is not the most thrilling way to spend a few days. Packing SUCKS.Being a packrat ROCKS — until…… Continue reading ROCKS vs SUCKS

Finished reading two of THE DRIEST academic books EVER yesterday (part of my ‘no computer plan’ which completely worked!) and today I finished writing reviews of said books. Thank F$@*K.I had hoped to get the third review written today (of a book that is BRILLIANT, namely, David Malouf’s Complete Stories) but alas. It is 5:35 and…… Continue reading Flerrrrgh