So far this year, I've mostly been reading romance, with a small side of YA.   www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com have given some good recs recently, and I've been pleasantly surprised at how much I've enjoyed them.

How I Met My Countess, by Elizabeth Boyle has a heroine that is capable of flooring a man with a punch, picking their pocket and cracking ( Read more... )

As tradition dictates, I got the new Pterry book for Christmas, and read it the day after Boxing Day.  I loved it, as usual, and it had a verrry sexy Patrician in it, so does anyone know where I can find some Vetinati smut?

Its been a while since I last posted, but I have been lurking well. I've been reading and looking after a sickly husband and helping my brother and s-i-l move house and prepare for bub number 2 ( Read more... )

So, we are back from NZ with our nice, shiny permanent residency visas.  Next stop citizenship!  I'm a bit worried about this; not about the test, because I like tests, but about the ceremony itself.  Here in Australia, you are not a citizen until you have had the ceremony with the local dignitary and been given the token gum tree/jar of vegemite/ ( Read more... )

It seems that two people I know have been recently published.  And I'm in one of the books!!!

The one I am in is called Without Trace, and is by Cyrus Ferguson, the father of my oldest schoolfriend.  He spent many years as a private investigator, so it was inevitable that he would write a crime novel.  It is set in 1960's Ormskirk and follows the ( Read more... )

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Well, I've drawn a very sexy Severus for my exchange piece, but I just can't get the hang of Hermione. She obviously doesn't do it for me in the way SS does! So while I have whatever the art equivalent of writer's block is, I have moved to one of the fic prompts that I always intended to have a go at anyway. I've got 8 pages of longhand to type up ( Read more... )

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We've just all completed our staff surveys.  Has anyone ever completed one of these that isn't a complete load of bollocks?  This one wasn't bad, as these things go, but I'm not really sure what they were trying to get out of it.  It would have to go some way to beat the appraisal I had around ten years ago.  It was very badly translated from ( Read more... )