I would use an appropriate icon, but it'd be the wrong one in a few hours...

[jadesfire]

Still sick and decidedly anti-social, although only apparently in internet terms, since I am also the proud owner of a train ticket to Cardiff for next Monday \o/

Also, for the few people I know track my icons, I'm going to be changing lots and lots and lots of them later today, so unless you want around 200 emails for deletions and uploads, you might want to turn notifications off :) This assumes that I can choose from the 315 that I have saved...

I don't have many links saved right now, but I wanted to say thanks for the lovely comments, to which you'll probably get a reply in about a week once I'm off the cold drugs and the painkillers:

Adding to the list of Amazon alternatives, The Book Depository is an excellent source of books. Postage is free to anywhere in the world, and when you look up a book, it tells you whether it's available/cheaper at Amazon, or if it's out of print, it directs you to Abebooks to find a copy. And yes, you read that right. Free postage anywhere in the world. One book I'm going to get from Abe (because TBD don't have it) is probably The Detective as Historian, because historical mysteries are my favourite kinds of books.

For the library bulletin board

Parrot custody case. The squawking is my favourite part :)

What do writers owe their readers? And fanfic authors think that comments like "PLZ RITE MOAR" are bad...

Research into the 'stereotypical' librarian'. My favourite article about this so far included the line "shockingly, 11% of them have tattoos!" (exclamation mark theirs). It's also worth noting that it's a tiny sample of a specific type of Australian librarians (the UK doesn't really have 'teacher librarians' in the same way, I don't think), but looking around my 2-300 colleagues at the last staff conference, I'd say it was pretty accurate!

Comments

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

It's thought that some parrots have the emotional development of a two- to three-year old child, and the intellectual development of a four- to five-year old. Damn straight I'm going to fight to get that back. Though it's too bad the Times couldn't be bothered to find a photo of an actual African Grey instead of just typing "parrot" into the image search engine and using what looked good.

I feel horrible about this, but one of my first reactions when I heard about Stephen King's horrible accident was, "Oh no, he won't be able to finish the Dark Tower series!" I thought the comment about Doyle and Holmes was spot on, which is especially funny considering I tend to think of Holmes as the first modern fandom: they had pastiches, fan clubs, conventions, and people would dress up as the characters!

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Cardiff! So jealous!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I emailed that comic to my mom (a reference librarian for 20 some odd years)

The research into librarians was interesting too

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Iconyay. I love the Jeeves & Wooster ones. Bobby with Colt is very pretty. (Which is maybe odd to say about a trucker holding a pistol, but it's a very nice icon.) I also really like Jack Ooh, Tosh over the shoulder. And jammy dodger! :)

Thanks for the Book Depository link.

[miss-zedem.livejournal.com]

I am also the proud owner of a train ticket to Cardiff for next Monday \o/ Wheeeeeee! *bounces excitedly*