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seeing charismitaine geeking out over the Lord Peter Whimsy (on Tumblr and elsewhere) as well as wanting to get a better edumacation

I read Gaudy Night yesterday.

Allow me to backtrack. I was very interested in the series, it seemed like the hero was quite my favorite type. So i got a copy of "Whose Body" and...just couldn't get on with it.

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There are certain retellings that manage to make you *more* interested in the original material, feel more fond of the story in general.

This week I've been lucky enough to come across two of these.


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Several more of the people on my F-List have come around to sense and read some of Megan Whalen Turner's work, so I've been skipping around making verbal parries about Tricksters, and love of rascals, and all sorts of things. Golden days, really!

rhinemouse  made some excellent, excellent points over at her post about characters Smarter Than Everyone Else
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I joked after finishing Letters to My Nemesis that I was going to have a deuce of a time with my next projects, because that one had felt so...competent.
Like I'd finally got a hold on what I was trying to do.

This only lasts so long before I reach to do something better and getting there is another fingernails-and-teeth fight with inertia.


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I got a picture book out "for Merriwether" the other day. He is feeling oppressed, and leery of my motives:


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Finished putting together a new yarn yesterday, The Dancing Tree:


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I'm going to tell you about this book I am reading, tho' I haven't even 3/4ths finished it yet, and am not going to do it today, as it is the kind of day for reading Pride and Prejudice or Howl's Moving Castle* which involve no intense physical duresses or particularly gritty life situations.

Also a day for looser pants than what I am wearing, la.

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After Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire, I have been approaching sequels with a certain trepidition. One of the perils of open-ended series' is that the Dreaded Middle of any novel can so easily translate to a Series Sag. Artemis Fowl is a series I really respect for not falling into sameness and this most recent one was *really* *good* ( ( Read more... )

I seem to have read about 50 proper books this year. That sounds about right--not very many for me, because I was a bit slow this year, but enough to count toward a fairly long list. Last year I claimed 128, 98 being full novels. But I may have been confused?

I think I had more of a job this year, too.

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