Vision In Blue

Hot Key Books have a great little thing on their blog... "Top Ten Tuesday". The one that brought it to my attention was "Things In Books You Wish Were Real." Well... you know how I like a list! So where to start? You may remember though, that when I spoke about "The Grimm Legacy", this topic caused me trouble... but I'm going to try harder. Has to be The New York Circulation Material Repository from "The Grimm Legacy". A wonderful place that stores all the magical items [and not so] in its library. By adding this one I'm sort of making the other nine things pointless as I could borrow them from here! But just because I go to the library doesn't mean I stop buying books! Anyway, not only would it be great to borrow things but I'd love to sit and watch the stained glass windows. Dodos , courtesy of Thursday Next and Jasper Fforde. I know they were real but I think I'm allowed to have them on the list as they're clo...

I just finished reading a book [The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman] which really got my imagination going. The main character goes to work at a library, but not for books, a library for objects. From the mundane to the fabulous. From the fabulous to the magical. Of course the first thing I thought was what would I borrow... and I instantly forgot every wonderful thing I'd ever read about. But I have a back up to think about. When you borrow something special from the library you have to leave part of yourself there. Your future first born child, your sense of humour, your willpower, your sense of direction. So what would I leave when I borrow the undisclosed magical item? My procrastination would be the first and obvious choice... just thinking about all the things I could get done if I didn't have it makes me want to procrastinate. I think my second choice would be giving away my cowardliness, while I'm not generally cowardly I'm by no means brave. Now it...