Welcome one and all to my new blog! I’m not entirely sure how good I’m going to be at this, but I review everything I read religiously over on Goodreads and LibraryThing, so there’s hope. I haven’t yet decided exactly what will go here, or entirely figured out how to use WordPress, but I prefer to learn on the job anyway.

First points: the graphic is made by me, so if you think it’s rubbish, don’t say so too loudly. It’s a photo of one of my own bookshelves, slung into Paint.NET and fiddled with a bit. The URL and the idea of the “bibliophibian” comes from a shirt someone bought me a few years back, which in turn is based on this strip:

As my partner, parents, and indeed anyone else could tell you, if you didn’t know already, that’s pretty much the fate of any children I might hypothetically have.