Posted in about on 05/12/2009 07:10 pm by Liz
Things have been quiet around here, and I’m sorry for that. I’m reading a great deal (44 books this year, LibraryThing informs me, and I’m fairly obsessive about noting down everything I read there so it’s probably correct) — fiction and non-fiction, stories for children and for adults, books about social history and about individual lives, books on queer theory, comic books, picture books, poetry books, murder mysteries, science fiction…
Why haven’t I been posting about them? Maybe because April is a strange month, and by the time I’d got past that I was so far behind that thinking about catching up came with a vague sense of guilt. I know that’s silly. I’m good at silly.
I’m back because I read a book I just have to post about. More on that in another entry! And hopefully somewhat more regular updates to come in future. (I suspect Crystal, who was good enough to host this blog, will pull sad faces at me if I don’t get back on top of this one soon anyway. And then I’ll feel as though I’ve kicked a puppy.)
Posted in about on 01/29/2009 09:36 am by Liz
My name is Liz, and I’m setting up home here. I read a lot, write a lot, and soapbox a lot — sometimes.
There are a few things I have plans to post here. First and foremost are my views on books I’ve read recently, although I can hardly claim to be an amazing literary critic or anything of the sort; I tend to read huge amounts of genre fiction, and I’m not necessarily all that discriminating. At least not in the same direction as everyone else. Secondly, cookery. I’m not an amazing cook either, but I do cook more or less everything I eat from scratch, and gluten intolerance has encouraged me to improvise a lot. With mixed results. Thirdly, I may talk from time to time about writing. I may also talk about anything else which seems sufficiently interesting, but really, if we go there who knows where it’ll end.
If you’d like to know a bit more about me, well — by training I’m an archaeologist, which means I’m good at digging things up and cataloguing them obsessively. I’ve played at being all sorts of things in the past, including a figure skater, a clarinetist, a sailor, a scientist and a classicist. I travel whenever I can, wherever I can. I live in a mid-size town in the East of England.
I think that’s enough for now. All you really need to know is that I read books.
– Liz