D'oh!

Somehow I managed to defriend the person I was talking about yesterday by accident. Dunno how that happened. Oops

Thanks for all those who helped me work out how to check who I've friended and defriended

Books I've read this year

1. The Lost Slayer - Christopher Golden
2. Lost Souls - Poppy Z. Brite
3. Little Things - Rececca Moesta
4. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
5. Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey
6. Birds Without Wings - Louis De Bernieres
7. Resurrection Men - Ian Rankin
8. There And Back Again - Sean Astin
9. Bear - Jamie Smart
10. Preacher: Gone to Texas - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
11. Preacher: Until The End Of The World - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
12. Preacher: Proud Americans - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
13. Preacher: Dixie Fried - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
14. Preacher: Ancient History - Garth Ennis, Steve Pugh, Carlos Ezquerra & Richard Case
15. Books of Magic: Death After Death - John Nev Reiber, Peter Gross, Jill Thompson & Richard Case
16. Preacher: War in the Sun - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
17: Preacher: Salvation - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
18: Preacher: All Hell's A'Coming - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
19. Preacher: Alamo - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon
20. Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: A Devon Lad's Life in Nelson's Navy - Anthony Blackmore
21. From Belsen To Buckingham Palace - Paul Oppenheimer
22. The Atrocities of the Pirates - Aaron Smith
23. Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy - Candace Havens
24. Serenity: Those Left Behind - Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews & Will Conrad
25. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd
26. Sleepy Hollow - Peter Lerangis
27. Talk To The Hand - Lynne Truss
28. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

I rarely read a book more than once. I figure there are too many unread books out there for me to waste time one one I've already read. LOL. I read Lost Souls for the second time at the start of the year because I wanted to see if it was as amazing as I remembered it being. It took me a long time to get into it but I did like it, just not as mind blowing as the first time I read it. Neverwhere was different. I got sucked into it immediately and I loved every page. The mark of a truly great book if you ask me :)

I'd love for them to make a film of this (I know they're already doing Stardust, which I will have to read again before the film comes out). If they did a film of Neverwhere I think it would have to be directed by Tim Burton or possibly M. Night Shyamalan. Johnny Depp would play The Marquis, someone like Bryce Dallas-Howard could play Door and Richard would be someone like Ioan Gruffudd. Or possibly Ewan McGregor.

Next on the book list is Lord Hornblower by C.S Forester. Not the first Hornblower book, I know, but it's the first one I bought. It's a lovely old hardback edition that I found on this small secondhand book stall. The first owner has written his name inside and there is the date April 1948. I'm almost scared to touch it. It's an antique! Only cost me £2.50

Ooh, I almost forgot

Dad-Ra has bought Battle For Middle Earth 2! WOO HOO! Now I can kill more hobbits save Middle Earth again! WHEE!

I got SO addicted to the first game. Those who were around will remember. They will also remember a small incident involving the death of Boromir. It was an accident!

Well, now I can redeem myself FOR GONDOR!!!!

TTFN

Right, I'm away to play with look after Greg's kitten for the afternoon

My afternoon

I popped into Boots on the way to Greg's and printed off a big photo of me and Nathan and me and Alan from Collectormania. The ones I had taken when I was getting my autographs. I might relace the photo of me and James which I have on my desk at work with the one of me and Nathan (don't throw things at me)

Greg's kitten is so affectionate. She really does miss human company. When I got into the house she climbed up onto my shoulder and refused to get down. She just sat there like a pirate's parrot purring into my ear. After about 10 minutes of me wandering around with her sat on me I finally managed to get her to climb down. She then spent another 10 mins sat nuzzling my face with her head. So cute. When she was finally satisfied I wasn't going to immediately abandon her she decided it was time to play (while I was watching a DVD and having some lunch). This involved her batting a scrunched up bit of foil around the floor with her paw, then picking it up in her mouth and dropping it on me until I threw it for her to chase some more. She must think she's a dog. LOL

In between throwing foil for the cat I watched Open Range. Nothing too exciting. A fairly average Western really. I've been watching too much Deadwood. I was waiting for all the swearing to start. LOL

Left Greg's at about 4pm, after making sure the cat had enough food and water. Felt kind of bad about leaving her but I'll go back tomorrow after work and check on her again. Greg gets back tomorrow night

My XP version of Simon 2 arrived today! WHEE!