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Category: books
A friend of mine asked on Facebook for our favourite children’s book. I couldn’t think of just one, so here’s my list of fondly remembered favourites, in no particular order. Massive thanks to Kieron Smith, MD of my favourite online bookseller, The Book Depository, where a lot of these illustrations and descriptions link back to.
I’m not sure what age range my friend had in mind, but to give you an idea, I read these between the ages of 8 and 12.* As soon as I was old enough to have my own library card, my weekly ritual became going to Laudium’s only library on a Saturday morning, borrowing 4 or so books and working my way through them through the following week. These are some of the wonders I discovered there.
Excerpt from a conversation, in which I explain the dietary nuances of a netbook:
As any phule kno, all technology is vampiric. Your innocent looking netbook leeches blood in homeopathic quantities from your fingertips every time you touch it. With every press of a key, every tap and stroke of the trackpad, you feed the machine with part of yourself. (This is why marathon sessions between keyboard and chair leave people feeling drained and looking oddly pale.)
Aside: The idea of vampire tech transports me to the children’s corner of the Laudium public library, circa 1984, where I first made the acquaintance of Bunnicula. Happy times. 
“Winter is coming to HBO. Hot damn.” George R R Martin confirms it: HBO is filming a pilot of A Game Of Thrones.
This seems an appropriate moment to say: “SQUEE!”
(Via Virtual Economics of all places!)
