I’m feeling generous, blog.

One of the nice things about working in a bookshop is that we often get author signings. Since I live in Galway and not Dublin, we don’t tend to get the big-name authors very often, but we get a few of our own Irish ones every now and then. This month, however, we had Cassandra […]

Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Remember Claire Legrand’s Suitcase Seven giveaway?  I was lucky enough to win an ARC of Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I subsequently was given a copy of it from my manager at work, and gave that one away, but I kept the copy I won from Claire. It is, quite literally, one of […]

Neil Gaiman, lover. Question-mark-exclamation-mark-question-mark

I met Neil Gaiman and he wrote lover on my book.  Question-mark-exclamation-mark-question-mark. See? I’ll explain. The first time I went to see Neil Gaiman, it was in Easons in Dublin when he was promoting The Graveyard Book.  I was so excited to see him and I dragged along a friend (who left the reading a […]