Josh Earl did an interview with Penthouse magazine, here’s a quote from it:
With nerds becoming quite trendy what do you think it is that attracts people to Librarians?
Did you know that if you type cool into predictive text it actually spells book. Why? Because books are cool! Predictive text told me, so it must be true. Predictive text never gets things wrong.
How well do you really know the one you love? Skye Rogers believed she’d met the man of her dreams. Daniel was tall, dark and handsome, a sometimes aloof artist who turned out to be a kindred spirit and, it seemed, her soul mate.
Slowly, Skye fell deeply in love. Even more slowly, she realised that Dan was an alcoholic. Over the course of years, as Skye battled to understand the demons that haunted her beloved — and herself — she realised that she had to choose between life and self-destruction — a whole new and strange world for her.
Drink Me is the moving story of the great love — and fight — of one woman’s life. It is about patterns and why we choose them; love and why we seek it; life and what we do with it. Lyrically written and many-layered, Drink Me is a book everyone who has ever loved should read.
[text from the HarperCollins website]
I picked up this book last week at the library, it was the cover that caught my eye initially, and then the blurb. How could I possibly resist these words:
You don’t fall in love with an alcoholic - you fall in love with a man.
Read into that what you will… I’ll let you know what I thought when I’ve finished the book.
In London in 1865 Lydia Frankland finds a love letter written twenty years earlier by her late stepmother, Jane, to a natural historian at Port Arthur, Louis Lempriere. In the letter Jane confesses she is in love with Louis.
Lydia is horrified at her stepmother’s apparent infidelity, and begins to read Jane’s diaries. In them she finds more details about the time the family spent in Van Diemen’s Land all those years ago, when Lydia’s father, Sir John, was governor there. She reads an account of a macabre murder involving two convict boys; of horrible experiments conducted on prisoners held on the island; and of Jane’s obsession with Darwin’s theories of evolution.
Lydia realises there are secrets in her family’s past, and she sails to Van Diemen’s Land – now Tasmania – to unravel these mysteries. There she finds out more about her stepmother’s friendship with LempriŠre, and is forced to confront the fact that her father, whom she had believed a hero, upheld a sadistic regime in the penal colony. She is also transported back to a world where Charles Darwin’s theories were emerging and threatening to take over long-held religious beliefs.
In this historical novel, Simpson intertwines real historical events and figures with her own fictions, to ‘map the silences’ that traditional history leaves untouched. She masterfully weaves the reality of the darkness of Van Diemen’s Land with brilliantly realised imaginings of the past on this remote island at the end of the earth.
The Unshelved comic from the 7th of January was pretty funny. Usually they’re pretty funny, I mean, how can they not be. But then, I’m a Librarian and I find things like speaking in robot voices funny. Hmm anyway, more about that in another post!
I’ve included a smaller version here, but to read the text, just click on the comic. It’s a great one for cat lovers. Keep an eye on my cat links on delicious if you’re into cats, anything that’s catty and funny I post in there.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox