Okay, yeah, I didn't need to see Killshot.

It kept switching between bizarre and silly and boring and icky and just random and urgh, what a waste of an arvo. I was quite literally watching it and thinking "Man, I should have rented out Dead Like Me season one again ( Read more... )

Laura Kinsale's Uncertain Magic was another I borrowed off liadlaith. Started it at the bus stop on the way back and oh man oh man. It was sooooo beautiful and fascinating and genuinely terrifying and very very skilful. My first and if that's what Kinsale's like, I'm totally sold. Unfortunately I can't find her in any of my usual haunts and have just ( Read more... )

What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown.

Was so bad I did actually hurl the book across the room when I was done. It was so frustratingly written!

( ... can't take her ... )

Alexandra Potter.

I went through a bit of a phase.

( ... the blood inside of me is inside of you ... )

From the blogspot this morning ( Read more... )

Argh, it's nearly a month since I finished my final Heyer, The Grand SophyI am so glad all the hype totally paid off! An absolute delight of a book even though I had quite an interrupted read, by far the longest I've ever taken to finish a Heyer. But Sophy was such a scream and I loved how infuriated Charles was by her. And oh the ducklings and ( Read more... )

Mmm. Watched Season One of Pushing Daisies today.

Though I was absolutely fascinated by the production aesthetic and all those fabulous costumes, I found myself oddly irritated by the dialogue. It bordered on tryhard, like they were going for the idiosyncratic vocabulary of Buffy but you know what, so didn't work for me, just made them sound ( Read more... )

I had the damnedest time trying to read The Unknown Ajax last week. It just wouldn't hold my interest. I think I may have overdosed on Heyer's style to the point of taking it for granted. I glossed and skimmed rather than lost myself in every single sentence.

But oh man, totally awesome hero and fabulously smart heroine. And their conversations ( Read more... )

( novel nattering. )

Hmmm. Bath Tangle wasn't quite as satisfying as I'd hoped. I mean, the board was set up, the players positioned and there was indeed a very passionate resolution ... but nope, not quite as fizzy and wonderful in complications or characterisations or verbal exchanges as it could have been. All that detail of politics and social scandal? Too much ( Read more... )