To purple or not to purple, that is the question
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by susie in books i've been reading, cooking, doctor who, my invisible boyfriend
Lovely blog readers, let me steal your brains! This here shiny website is shortly to undergo a grand transformation, and (as well as exclusive extracts, noisy things on YouTube and general time-wasty shenanigans) SusieDay Towers will be getting a new coat of paint. This makes me happy. And confused. I am so indecisive I have been known not to have any lunch because I can’t decide if I want cheese on toast or soup, so picking my favourite of two colour schemes is utterly beyond me. So: halp?
Which new dress shall my website wear?
- Purple and Converse Green (53%)
- Teal and Poppy (47%)
Total Voters: 15
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Am currently reading The Official Nancy Drew Handbook: Skills, Tips & Life Lessons From Everyone’s Favourite Girl Detective. V handy as I bunked off Girl Detective School the day they did How To Train a Carrier Pigeon and Advanced Kidnap-Thwarting. Alas, I am less interested in Nancy’s help in flower-arranging and, um, How To Get That Ring on Your Finger and That Man to the Altar. Hush now, Nancy dear: I’m reading the Usborne Detective’s Handbook which has proper criminals with straggly beards in. Now where’s my Whifflepoof?
CUT CUT SNIPPETY TYPE CUT SLASH HACK ARGH! SLURP. Or: I am editing Project Poppy. So far this mostly involves deleting entire chapters and drinking a lot of tea while trying to think of things that are funny. Dairylea triangles = funny. Explaining how time travel works = not funny. Oh, but guess what I’ve got? The brand new not-out-till-March-1st North American paperback of serafina67 *urgently requires life*! Still as pink and gorgeous as ever, and now with a sneaky peeky at My Invisible Boyfriend tucked away at the back too. Woo, etc.
cooking tagine in my new tagine (eee! even if I need to learn to actually read a recipe on occasion); wondering who thought BSG’s Razor was a good idea; giggling at the sheer lolarity of the new Doctor Who trailer; throwing things in skips; eating lotus flowers while harassed by a dragon for Chinese New Year.
3, 2, 1, Zero Moment!
Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by susie in books i've been reading, kids' books i've been reading
Joshua Files launch: Agent Peter Cox, MG Harris and BBC Oxford's Bill Heine
In a change from our regularly scheduled bacon sarnies, this week I got to hear good mate MG Harris nattering about books in a slightly more glam context. The launch party for the third Joshua Files book, Zero Moment, transformed Oxford Blackwell’s into a riot of excited readers and luminous cake. MG even dished a big secret about Book 5! Now, if only I can persuade her to give me her Lime Cheesecake cupcake recipe…
I confess, I snagged an early preview so I read this a while ago – but gosh, Zero Moment really does live up to its limited-edition glowing green cover. If you’re not up to speed with all things Joshua File-y, I suggest you kidnap the nearest 11-year-old boy and insist he fills you in. (Then let him go again: it’s only polite.) Josh leaves Oxford for Mexico once again, with Mum and Tyler along for the trip, but a thrilling buggy ride across the sand ends in disaster. This time Josh isn’t the one in obvious danger – but while he’s chasing one set of bad guys, there’s another lot closing in. Throw in some nifty time-travel and a car chase on a winding Swiss mountain pass that will leave you utterly breathless, and you have, undubitably, the best Joshua book yet – and that’s high praise indeed.
The downside of having finished the first draft of The Poppy Project is that this week I had to read it. Ugh. AL Kennedy sums up the state of mind beautifully in this weekend’s Guardian: could do better.
Discovering that Wii swordfighting brings out my, um, forceful tendencies; watching so much BSG that I sincerely pondered the potential charm of an invisible blonde giant whispering in Poppy’s ear all through draft number 2; lamenting the de-relaxation properties of cancelled yoga classes.
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