Monday, 25 February 2013

50 books

1. The Hobbit
2. The Prince, Machiavelli
3. Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
4. Paradise Lost, Milton
5. Le Bible, author unknown (HA)
6. Divine Comedy, Dante
7. Dante's Inferno, Dante
8. Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
9. Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan
10. Frankenstein, Shelley
11. Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
12. Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
13. The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
14. Huckleberry Finn, Twain
15. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
16. Three Men in a Boat
17. Canterbury Tales
18. Of Mice and Men
19. Prince and the Pauper
20. Animal Farm
21. Grimm Tales
22. Catch 22
23. Catcher in the Rye
24. Lolita
25. Heart of Darkness
26. The Three Musketeers
27. The Man in the Iron Mask
28. The Secret History
29. The Hunger Games
30. Life of Pi
31. Journey to the West
32. Wuthering Heights
33. Ulysses
34. Fight Club
35. Neverwhere
36. Dr Faustus

Tuesday, 9 October 2012


We all thought we were going to dance, then.

Just don't tell her she's going to grow up to be like everybody else. 

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

“If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.” 
― HergĂ©



Wednesday, 12 September 2012

If God is to die, he has to be forgiven.

Didn't he have a son?
We don't talk about him.
We don't?
No, we don't.

Placebo Eden. The fruit never did anything. You just had to choose to eat it.

That's crap. You'd already decided what you thought was right or wrong. You just then held up a Get Out Of Jail Free Card and bitched that Daddy said so, so it's okay.

Sunday, 9 September 2012

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Two texts, one Birthday party
Incredible upset
Coming off M
No lies
Breathtaking condescension and assumption of authority
Mutual respect
Implication of not valuing the children
Systematic, ganging up, bullying
Assumption of knowing about inner familial politics, M
Just like your M
Niece/Granddaughter
Victimise someone else
I'm out of this game

Sanctimonious crap, C/J stories