I didn’t set an alarm when I went to bed Friday night. And I surprised myself by sleeping until 10:00 Saturday morning ( Read more... )

After the election, the rest of this week was all about self-care just to get through to the weekend. It’s been so upsetting seeing what is happening to this country. It’s one thing to have racist events happen when the leadership opposes them, it’s another thing to have a leader who supports (or at least doesn’t oppose) the white supremacist and ( Read more... )

I spent the day Saturday reading a novel (Come Hell or Highball). It felt a little bit like an American themed ripoff of the Her Royal Spyness mysteries, but I enjoy them, so it was a good way to spend a lazy Saturday. When I was checking Amazon for the link, it looks like book two in the series is out. Might have to track that one down too ( Read more... )

I was sorely disappointed at the first posthumous Lord Peter Wimsey book, Thrones Dominations, started by Dorothy Sayers but finished by Jill Paton Walsh back in 1998. The first time I tried to read it I only managed a couple of chapters before I actually put it down and refused to finish it. I did finally read it through a couple of years later ( Read more... )

Today I read an article on IO9 that included a very long excerpt from a biography of Joss Whedon. It’s worth a look at the article, if only for the pretty pictures of a young Nathan Fillion as Mal. *fangirl crush ( Read more... )

I’ve finished the Dorothy Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey stories (There are still two of Jill Paton Walsh's take on Lord Peter books in the queue). Then, because it was on the shelf nearby, I read P.D. James essays on the mystery novel, Talking About Detective Fiction, which got me thinking about a story I’ve had kicking around in my head for a couple ( Read more... )

On leaving Miss Climpson, Lord Peter Wimsey again found himself a prey to Weltschmerz and self-pity. But it now took the form of a gentle, pervading melancholy.

Today’s serendipity, reading an article about German terms, posting about it here, and then reading the very same German term on page 164 of Strong Poison.

( Short bit of blather, I’m afraid Wimsey tends to rub off on me )

A while back I picked up, on clearance, a set of DVDs of Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries. I’d forgotten about them until the other day. Since I’m re-reading the mystery novels, I thought I might also pop in the DVDs in the evenings and finally watch them ( Read more... )

It’s been a rough week for 69 year old British celebrities with cancer. I woke up Monday morning to find out that we’d lost David Bowie, and woke up Thursday morning to the news that Alan Rickman had decided to join him for a drink in Heaven. Well bugger all. Fuck Cancer. Yes, I know I keep repeating myself, but I'm BUMMED about this ( Read more... )

“Information wants to be free” means “Information wants to be unrestrained,” not “unpaid-for”. - Laura Anne Gilman ( Read more... )