Unlike Greygallows, timeripple's romance recommendation, "Lord of Scoundrels" did not arrive with a horrifyingly gauche cover. I was a bit disappointed. It also was not a large-print edition. There is always a trade-off...

Well, to start with, from the outset this was Not Your Georgette Regency. Though it maintains a certain composed diction that one expects ( Read more... )

Some days I wake up sure it's my destiny to marry Adam Young (Owl City). Other days I acknowledge the fact that my refusal to have a life is why I don't know anyone equally appropriate but more likely...

This note brought to you by having guys here replacing all our windows and my usual love of an excuse to be less productive than I ought.

War on the ( Read more... )

Briefly, before we begin... I am having a moment of anger and disbelief so many people do not love the idea of The Carnie's Conspiracy. And am lamenting what I could be doing wrong...

On the other side of things, this morning I wrote a piece of flash (1000 words style...I need to cut out 47 words, if we're being strict here) titled:

The Fox of the ( Read more... )

Day 18 of the Obsessive Book-Lover's Month of Books

What books have you read where you didn't expect to like them, and then were surprised?

I guess my list got less inspired after day 17--and I know why. Let's try and think of a way to rewrite this, so it's more fun...

You're handed a book, and it looks dull. Serious. Somehow not your thing. But you ( Read more... )

I was thinking about NaNo and wondering if it's particularly good for me, as a year-long novelist. I'm not very sure that it would be a good idea this year.
I've just recovered from a 2 year slump as far as novels go, and I don't need to rush right back in by doing something taxing.

I'm going to observe, but not with as vigorous a word-count goal-- ( Read more... )

A Double-Feature!

Talk about a book or a few that made you go out and shamelessly foist it/them on all your reading friends. Moreso than usual.

The Thief. The King of Attolia. Beauty.

I'm a pretty hopeless foister of books, but I generally try to customize to the person I'm talking to, get a feel for their interests. Beauty and The Thief I can live ( Read more... )

Have you found a reading soulmate? Describe why someone would be yours.

I dunno, mate, but for manga rhinemouse  and I have freakishly similar weaknesses. Particular tastes skewed from each other enough she's read a lot of stuff I never clicked into in my searches, and it seems like the reverse is also true...


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First, I just wrote the nasty fight at the end of the book! I just have to fill in a little end-matter and Letters to My Nemesis will be a done draft. I'm squealing inside!

Day 7

Make a mini-list of books that show cases your reading at its most eclectic (up to 5)

The Princess Diaries
Middlemarch
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Women Who Run With The Wolves
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I've had a few friends do the "month of books" meme going around, and express frustration at the fact that it became repetitive as they kept having their favorites brought to mind, and the questions were a bit simplistic.

SO.

I thought it would be fun to try and draw up one angled toward bringing different kinds of books to mind.
Also, not implying ( Read more... )

There are many things shojo, on the whole, does badly.

Healthy relationships, for example. Ne~ver seen one. (Granted, I have a feeling they would be boring.)
  Basic medical likelihoods, also. Much like any media, shojo doesn't know that you don't give CPR to someone who's only gone unconscious. It has a more unique fondness for having girls (and ( Read more... )