Barbed, for her post-rimming pleasure

[susie_flo]

Thanks to a lady on Facebook, I have discovered that there is a South Park game for Xbox coming out this month. I might have to have a go on that... (albeit in 300 years' time, if/when I finally complete Skyrim). Definitely not one to play with the microbe on my lap.

In book news, I read The 5th Wave last week and would def recommend it to those of you who are partial to the occasional bit of 'young adult' escapist fiction. I discovered it by chance because it won an award in London and got tweeted about a lot. Essentially it's in the skiffy/apocalypse/dystopia genre and manages to combine a thoroughly grip-tastic plot with a decent narrative style that doesn't constantly draw attention to itself with jarring turns of phrase (Malorie Blackman I'm looking at you). Overall, I think it wipes the floor with The Hunger Games. And - of course - someone is making a film of it.

Now I'm back on grown-up fiction with a book called Apple Tree Yard... (has anyone read it?) I'm only a few pages in but it seems promising. I decided to give it a whirl after Hilary Mantel raved about it in a review somewhere (a woman whose taste I am inclined to trust).

Well that's my fly-by for today. Bye bye!

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Why shouldn't you play South Park with microbe on your lap? Sooner or later he's going to find out how sick you are and surely it's better sooner? ;-)

I'm reading The Gum Theif by Douglas Coupland atm - loving it and as ever late to the party just finished reading Donna Tartt's Secret History- absolutely loved it.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I recall loving The Secret History too (though it was a long time ago). I bought another one of hers years later called The Little Friend but never got round to reading it (and probably never will unless I buy it again for kindle)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I still haven't read a book on a kindle - though of course early adopter (though in this case unusually late) Mr Pops has, though he seems to be using it more for reading Farcebook and looking at Flickr.

I'm also going to use a camera from 1959 later this afternoon - you can just feel the white heat of technology coming off me can't you?

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Oooh I have Apple Tree Yard, but haven't started it yet. I'm reading Ripper by Isabelle Allende but it's going slowly. I'm currently only reading it in bed and I keep nodding off...

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I have exactly the same problem. I probably average about 8 words a day.. (including re-reading the last 4 from the day before where I nodded off)

That teen book was a rare exception as it was so fast-paced throughout that it kept me awake. Time will tell whether Apple Tree can do likewise (reviews suggest it's a slow burner that gets gripping towards the end)

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Oh and
http://amischiefofmice.tumblr.com/post/78588027303/the303-skyrim-mod-of-the-year