[BOOK REVIEW] "The Death of Grass" by John Christopher

First impressions when I heard the title of book #3 for book club weren't particularly good; I thought it sounded awful, to be honest. I was at the book club get together for "The Shadow of the Wind" and we had all put our suggestions into the bowl and they were getting read out in reverse order. Naturally, my choice, "Looking for Alaska" by John Green, got picked first meaning it was not going to be the selected reading. 

When "The Death of Grass" got read off that little bit of paper, there was a slight pause followed by nervous laughter.

I'm sorry, what? That sounds... bad...

The culprit was a guy by the name of Scott who, when asked, described the synopsis in just about as many words - it's about the death of grass.

Skip forward to the book club meeting where several people, myself included, praised Scott for picking such a fantastic book. Amazing, we said. Perfect! we said. The best book club book yet! 

NEXT BOOK FOR BC: The Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl. 

No NaNoWriMo

This blog post is going to be about time management (or lack thereof)... and light. It's also going to mention the lack of natural light that Scotland sees at this time of year.

This blog post is going to be about the lack of stuff. For the record, I didn't mean to come across as quite so depressed. After watching the footage back I must admit I was sitting there thinking, Sheeeesh! Get a grip! It's just a bit of light! But there you go!

The basic gist is this: it's been just over three whole weeks since I posted my Thank You video to theclaudereads (who I absolutely adore!) and while, for the most part time was a big issue what with job/college/friends/etc taking priority, I was also having difficulty with my lighting. The video for Claudia was done using a lamp and a white bed sheet in the hopes of making things a bit less gloomy but November is a gloomy looking month in the city of Edinburgh. It was just proving to be quite difficult. And not to mention the fact that pretty much any free time I did have was spent sleeping or reading. Such is life, huh?

Anyways, the result is this: a poorly lit video moan about NaNoWriMo (see below). I just can't do it. Sucks to be me!

On a brighter note, Priscilla is now following me on twitter! Eh, what? I know. I got a little buzz from that. I'm a bit curious as to why she didn't subscribe to me on YouTube because I so very rarely use twitter but I'm still happy about that!

Anyhoos, this is my attempt at trying to keep up what I said earlier. You know, about how this blog needs a good dust down (even though no one actually reads my posts lol)

^.^