Then slowly she lifted her head and looked at Matilda. She saw the child white in the face, as white as paper, trembling all over, the eyes glazed, staring straight ahead and seeing nothing. The whole face was transfigured, the eyes round and bright and she was sitting there speechless, quite beautiful in a blaze of silence.--- p175 ( Read more... )

Ah. In other news, I'm reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes at the moment. Mainly cos it's the only book in my Aunt's house that remotely interests me --- I'm not ready for Christos Tsolkias' The Slap yet and I'm too repulsed by what I've been told about Shobha De's novels even though my mum did actually know her when we were in India --- and it's ( Read more... )

Oh dude. How much do I love Facebook for having English (UK) as a language so when I'm recommended Heyer's False Colours, it actually comes up with the 'u'?!

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttt!!

Oh, I forgot to include in my reviews Anna Campbell's Untouched. Which boojumlol lent to me and seemed like it could be sweeter just by the premise. ( ... oh yes? )

I am still reading only Regency romances. Why? Mostly for the escapism but I am noticing how, as I read more, my writer brain takes closer note of the techniques and devices, characterisation and which plots catch me more than others. I don't know if that's just familiarity breeding higher standards or latent frustration at my own lack of writing ( 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... )

I've actually had a couple of fairly exciting days, work-wise. Did a whole new jurisdiction yesterday which was all manner of thrilling and happily there were familiar lawyer type faces, one of whom totally beamed at me, and the system was exactly the same so it was verrah easy to settle into. And today capped off a couple of days last week where I ( Read more... )

Just finished April Lady. Sad wretched little story, really, but with a damned satisfying romantical type ending. I only have The Grand Sophy to go now but I may try Royal Escape too for curiosity's sake ( Read more... )

Back from a quick satisfying dinner with the Aquarian cuz-cuz at Maya's. Next time we are totally booking for the tandoori branch cos damnit I want to know why they were totally booked out. I love that when the lady told us it was a half hour wait, the Aquarian cuz-cuz and I didn't even need to consult each other. We both immediately said "Oh no, ( Read more... )

Okay. Finally, finally wrote that scene wot's been sitting on me for the past few months. I think it turned out fairly well. Maybe a bit too much descriptive detail but the writing group assures me every single time that I haven't gone overboard. I'm still not entirely sure I believe them on that count but maybe that's a good thing. Keeps my purple ( Read more... )