As the rain pours down and the wind howls I think it’s probably fair to say that the summer is now over. Having not updated since June I’m not sure what to say about it really apart from the fact it was far too hot for me to be anything other than idle. Most of the time since my last update seems to have been taken up with having our central ( Read more... )

No book meme this week but hopefully that will be back next week when I actually finish the book!

paperlegends, the Merlin Big Bang, finished on Sunday after posting over 100 complete works of illustrated fic. Huge thanks to all the writers and artists and particularly the_muppet for her astonishing organisation for it over the last four years. As a reader it's been an ( Read more... )

I haven't actually finished a book this week so I'm going to jump straight to what I'm reading now.

What I'm Reading Now

Blood and Roses: the Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses by Helen Castor. I'm doing quite well with this but I got a bit bogged down in the 15th century politics of North Norfolk. Let's just say they aren't pretty and show ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans on my flist and Happy Thursday to everyone else! The sun is at least shining today which is a marked improvement on yesterday ( Read more... )

I'm not going to write anything at all about my dad because the minute I think one thing something different happens. My mother describes it as being on an emotional seesaw, I think it's a rollercoaster and it certainly isn't helping my telephone phobia ( Read more... )

This is me feeling tetchy!

( Recycling chaos. Feel free to skip )

I'm really busy for the next few days and if I don't do this now I probably won't, so here are some more recs from paperlegends, the Merlin Big Bang community (aka the gift that just kept on giving through the whole of August). I've read just under a third of them now and they've all been amazing in some way or another, so thanks to everyone who took part and the_muppet ( Read more... )

I've been having a little pause from reading paperlegends, the Merlin Big Bang, so before I plunge back in again have some recs ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever been exhausted from laughing too much before! OK, part of it is the humidity, which is "enervating" as my mother would say, but part of it is because we went to see "One Man, Two Guvnors" at the National Theatre last night and I haven't laughed so much for years ( Read more... )

I just realised I haven't updated for a while, which is mostly because I haven't been doing very much. The title has absolutely nothing to do with anything in the post but I've used it because I loved the phrase which was in The Boy Who Lived Forever by Lev Grossman, one of the best and fairest articles on fanfiction that I've read. At the moment ( Read more... )