I've been able to read quite a few books now after having got my Kindle 2. At the hairdresser, during the occasional spare moment and in particular during the travelling with the Canadian and his parents - we had a lot of airport time and flying time in which I could catch up on reading.

These were Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer, A Walk in ( Read more... )

I don't have a lot of fic recs yet from yuletide because I'm still wading my way through them, but I have enjoyed the ones beneath the cut. ( Read more... )

Trying not to implode but according to Robin McKinley's latest LJ post here, not only has she written a third Damar novel (which was turned down), but she is in the course of writing a fourth in the Damar series.

I am filled with such glee.

As I raved on about here, Harry Crewe is one of my favourite Girl Who Does Things/heroine and Corlath is ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was posting a list of my Yuletide Fic Recs and guiltily posted a nice Robin McKinley fic I enjoyed even though I did note that I am aware that Ms McKinley does not like fan fic and wishes that her fans would not write fan fic using her material.

Today I was reading her LJ at robinmckinley and saw that she said this:

It’s a little bit like ( Read more... )

A while back I posted my own Christmas Wish List when talking about the Yuletide Challenge. As mentioned, it's a secret fiction exchange and while I didn't participate, I spent some time today reading some fics ( Read more... )

A while back, meganbmoore posted an interesting poll about vampires. I picked: "Sometimes they're ok, but mostly they're just a necessary evil in some of the things I like to read/watch." I then wrote: ( Read more... )

Beauty ( Thoughts on Beauty )

This instrumental piece of music is called Maid Marian and it's from the much critcised and maligned movie Kevin Cosnter movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. No don't groan, it's beautiful. Really and it took me about 300 years to upload which is why you download it of course!!! ;) I steal the screen cap from my Scenes in movies/tv shows that " ( Read more... )

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I'm one of those people that Robin McKinley detests. Yes, I bleat and wish that she would write another in the Damar series. Deep within my heart I know that Ms McKinley does not control this - it's up to her creative muse if another Damar book is to come along and no begging and pleading in the world is going to change that. Nonetheless, hope ( Read more... )