Fun web discoveries

Just some fun things that I came across on the web this week... This sign cracked me up. I tried to find out where this picture was taken but I didn't have much success. The Lion Masseur I love this picture of a lion getting a foot massage. It just looks like a big playful cat lolling around on its back. You can read more about the lion tamer who caters to these lions here. The North Skirt... As someone who only wears skirts...

Send your love to Diana Wynne Jones

I was saddened to recently hear that one of my favorite YA authors, Diana Wynne Jones, has been battling cancer for the past seven years, and has now decided to terminate her chemotherapy treatments, which did not appear to be helping.According to her physician, Diana now only has months left, though she has been feeling somewhat better since discontinuing chemotherapy and has regained her sense of smell and taste and is even now working on another...

The City & The City by China Miéville

I have always avoided murder mystery novels though lately I seem to reading quite a few of them as so many fantasies are now creeping over the genre line to mingle in other categories. Had I come across The City and the City in a bookstore and read the back cover, I would never have even bothered cracking it open as the story it described, of a detective and a murder, is not one that particularly appeals to me. But what the book blurb fails to mention,...

New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of June 6

From this week's selection of new releases it's Patricia Wrede's new novel, A Matter Of Magic, that I am particularity looking forward to reading. Though from the description it sounds like a number of other fantasies that I have read before, since it's Wrede I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt and I expect that it will be just as wonderfully fun as all the other books of hers that I've read. Other than that, there are a couple of other books...