I came back to Lund on Tuesday, but haven't had time to write anything until today. For once I had a wonderful train ride back home. The 11:30 train is apparently THE one to take. Hardly any passengers so I had four seats for my self, my bags and to rest my feet on (I did put an old magazine under the shoes though). It was a beautiful winter's day ( Read more... )

Yepp, still coughing, but I do think my head is clearing up a little bit. And there has been more tv watching. God, how utterly terrible Sharpe's peril was! They showed part 1 tonight on one of the smaller channels, and even if I do like me some Sean Bean it was pretty painful. Has the dialogue always been as bad? It was a while since I watched the ( Read more... )

Ha, I had completely missed the expression "Zipper Rippers" for the "new" m/m romance novels being published - e.g Alex Beecroft's False Colors and Erastes' Transgressions. It's an utterly fantastic expression!

That article is pretty interesting, particularly in what is doesn't mention - slash fan fiction! Come on, much of  m/m romance publishing ( Read more... )

Finally feeling pretty well, even if I'm still sniffling, and my legs could tell I'd been spinning yesterday.

Stayed in all day and read two very different books. On the one hand some serious reading, Lisa Coletta's Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel: Triumph of Narcissism, which I'm slowly working my way through. The theory ( Read more... )

Hm, I got stuck in reading some of my old LJ-posts, and suddenly an hour had passed. That's what happens when you try to be organized and tag old stuff. Frankenstein and Igor was what lost me - Igor as the creation for the films. Frankenstein on the whole is an intriguing book, and extending the concept to include the films makes it even more so. ( Read more... )

I've done nothing constructive today. Just stayed at home all day, did some vacuuming and washed my hair. I watched yet another episode of Brothers and Sisters and read some in Walter Maltese's Beyond Manchu. It is very purple prose-y yet strangely addictive. It's like a slightly political adventure novel with a liberal agenda, exotic locations, ( Read more... )

Where did all those days go? I can't be turning 30 on Wednesday, can I? It sounds so serious and real. I have to grow up now, probably? Still, I can't say I am filled by angst for my birthday, rather looking forward to it actually. Will have a smallish party with cheap Hungarian bubbles &  traditional cocktail sandwiches & nibbles. Today I made 30 ( Read more... )

Oh my, it's already the 1st of September and I don't think I've done a third of all the stuff I was supposed to do before August ended. I just can't keep the good sleeping patterns when I have no scheduled events during the day.  It's bloody annoying, and I have no one to blame but myself.

I have done a bit of reading though and finally finished ( Read more... )

Must try out my new Howard Pyle pirate icon and when is more appropriate than a post on  scholarly books on the pirate tradition.

I found another non-fic gay pirate related book in my shelves yesterday which I had almost forgotten I had:

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by B. R. Burg from 1984, which pre-dates Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, ( Read more... )

I'm still awake, which kind of sucks. I want to buy these two pirate novels soo much; Brethren: Raised by Wolves and Matelots: Raised by Wolves Volume 2.  The two chapters available at the publisher's page were very promising. Looks like there's quite a lot of research behind them too. I liked the feel of comradeship, and the political undertones ( Read more... )