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Hello, Amanda! Hello, fans! This is my first post, I guess...
So, how I felt about the book can only be summed up in a love letter of sorts to Neil.

Dear Neil,

Just, wow.

Neil, you’ve outdone yourself. I’m in tears of joy as I type. I haven’t been immersed in a novel (novella, really, since it’s less that 200 pages) like this since Moffat knows how long ago.

The protagonist (who, though unnamed in the novel, is named Neil in my mind) is so, so relatable to me. I didn’t have many friends as a young child, and I preferred books to people then – and now. Thank you for creating such a relatable protagonist.

The Hempstocks are genius, some of the best characters you’ve come up with ever. (I’m convinced they are Time Ladies.) I’d like to cosplay Lettie – weird, I know, but she’s just so awesome and a brilliant character, and so well-defined. All of them are great.

The Big Bad was straight out of my nightmares – a woman who somehow combines the absolute loathsomeness of Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter with the seductive wickedness of the Other Mother from Coraline… you made it happen, Neil.

The story had everything, too – myth and magic and fantasy and reality and horror and terror and epic all blurring together, like in all your work, but at a much more personal level than anything you’ve ever written. The length was no issue – I read the book in less than two hours, but it felt like hours or days as I read. It transported me. Books that do that stay with me for a long time. And I know this one will stay with me for a long, long time. In fact, I think I’m going to re-read it right now.

Brilliant job, Neil. Thank you for this miraculous gift of a book.

A+

Love,
Shenanigans
your favorite groupie

Seeking a Friend For The End of The World

Isn't the whole point to getting married that you always have someone to drag to
movies and shows that none of your friends are really thrilled about?

Anyway, pop by any time, I'll go.

>job interview today
>wear realistic wig and fancy interview-specific clothing
>ask about dress code in front of interviewer and her assistant, and she says that my piercings would have to go and I couldn't wear docs because they're not work appropriate (boots are the only footwear I have)
>walking through town later that day in my normal appearance sans wig etc
>girl in front of me suddenly stops in the street and I almost walk into her
>she turns around, does a double take and I realise it's the interviewers assistant
>maybe not getting that job?

Or maybe she thought "oh, that girl early today has a doppelgänger! lol! I will tell boss to give her that job."

...or maybe she suddenly decides to re-think the stupid rules....

stew

what did everyone think of the symbolism regarding the Hempstocks as well as the cat -
the opal miner,
the ocean-
all of it?

I haven't read it yet, sadly. But every time I hear the title I think of Millet's painting of a seaside hamlet: http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/end-of-the-hamlet-of-gruchy-31617

I really should go buy the book! I found the blog very touching.

Reading and loving, it just gets better and better. A thing keeps happening, when I read something, seamlessly flowing from the previous totally rational events, and then I'm like 'wait, what?' because the weird and magical just appears as if it's been there forever just waiting for you to notice.
Love it.

got the keys for my new flat today wooohooo! it's in an old house and the flat very run down, so a few things will have to be done, but the rent is affordable and the location just perfect 

@Faloleen: Thank you for the encouraging words. Uni is a total catastrophe at the moment, and my motivation gone, so i can only hope it'll come back with the start of the next semester...

I'm finally recording demos of my songs so my future bandmates can know what I have in mind.

So far I've recorded the most electronic of all, and the computer crashed so I could only save these early mixes:
http://felixmarques.bandcamp.com/album/miseria-maquetas-de-junio-del-2013

Friends so far have told me that the song is terribly catchy, which really pleases me. I love writing songs that are odd but also hit material.

My band's music will mostly be some odd mix of piano-composed orchestral pop with every genre imanigable, including a bit of epic sing-along and power metal. I've been writing songs for it for about two years and I'm egtting the musicians together right now.

(No, I'm not singing.)