Has anyone else heard about Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel's, controversial speech on Royal Bodies, presented for the London Review of Books? I saw it yesterday in my twitter feed and clicked on it out of interest. As someone coming to it as a cultural historian, as a writer and as someone who comes from a country that has little love left for ( Read more... )

Well I joined lj_scribe and the prompt for this week was "living the dream." This is what I came up with where I was using the prompt metaphorically and no this is not based off anything real lol. It's just out of my messed up head.

Also, I dedicate this to Carol cianthecat because she has so much faith in my writing ( Read more... )

So I know there are Spooks fans on my flist and I just posted this New Year's Ruth/Harry, Dimitri/Beth (love those two cheeky buggers) fic on ff.net. I'll post the link here for whoever wants to read. I'd post the fic to my lj but I'd be here all day with the formatting. If you don't want to review on ff.net you can leave a comment at the bottom of ( Read more... )

I saw someone else do this as a poll at a Who comm and I figure now that I've seen the episodes I can attempt this. ok, so episodes broken down for your reading pleasure ( Read more... )

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Ok guys, I know I havn't reviewed Dr Who since Vampires in Venice but there is a reason. Actually there's a few reasons ( Read more... )

In a word it was terrible. Everything that RTD generally gets wrong was done wrong here. In fact I think this is the worst episode of New Who I've seen since Donna and the Adipose at the beginning of season four. Actually. No. Fuck it. This is the worst episode of New Who yet. And that's really saying something- hello Shirley Henderson episode.

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I've always had this obsession with working out evil characters motivations for doing things, which is why even though I disagree with people who claim that Wicked is the greatest musical ever (that would be those written by the musical genius Stephan Sondheim) I do have to admit that the opening and closing songs of No one mourns the Wicked really ( Read more... )

I can't believe this... I'm reading 5 books at once which begs me to ask the questions... am I mad, in a coma? etc LOL. (I am such a nerd)

so what is this crazy thing reading?

1. Daggerspell- Katherine Kerr. In preperation for the last book, I'm re reading this series for the eleventy billionth time. My Mum is now to the point with this series ( Read more... )

So I've finally finished my first year of uni... this feels weird : / But at least I can now get back to my story...

I'm kicking myself because I've finished reading Feeling Sorry for Celia and Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty, nearlly killing myself with laughter at how great (and funny) they are, and now I don't have the next two books... ( Read more... )