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1. Scott and Bailey is back. I'm fairly certain my gleeful happiness could be heard all up and down the street. My thoughts basically boil down to: <3 <3 <3 OMG Gill's bff from the other syndicate <3 <3 Gill! <3 Janet! Janet's mum! Rachel! <3 etc, etc, etc.
2. Lost Girl is having its season finale next Sunday. What am I going to do while it's on hiatus? *angsts* (that said, 2x21 <3)
3. Mac was back in the latest Phryne Fisher installment (hurrah!). The show continues to be entertaining fluff. With dead bodies.
4. I plowed my way through Dragonsdawn last week (maybe plow is the wrong word, as I mostly enjoyed the re-read, though I disliked Sean Connell a lot more than I did the last time), and skimmed straight through Dragonsong and Dragonsinger last night (OMG THE TEEN ANGST OMG).
4a. This was because I'd managed Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern not that long ago, and didn't hate it. Which is possibly faint praise, as it hit many of my kinks like WORLDWIDE EPIDEMICS and people desperately running against the clock to saaaaave everyone and Moreta basically pwning everyone's balls.
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4b. Now I'm going to slog my way through Dragonflight, though I'm already bogged down a bit (F'lar blames everything on the women of the world, despite said women having little to NO power to effect any changes in said world in the first place. F'lar, your logic sucks). Mostly, I want to punch F'lar and his smugness in the face (it is not a good kind of smug). I'm only a chapter and a half in, though. I might want to knife him soon (I seem to recall a knife fight later on. Perhaps he should lose it)
4c. The hilarious thing about Dragonsdawn was that I'd been thinking of re-reading it, and sort of contemplating going to Half-Price (or the library) for a copy, and I was standing in front of my bookshelf whining mentally about how I'd tossed a lot of my McCaffrey and right there in front of my face was my well-thumbed copy of Dragonsdawn. Sometimes, my brain doesn't work so well. (I think I'm sol on Outlaws and All the Weyrs of Pern, though. sigh. I do still have the three-in-one of 'Flight, 'Quest and White Dragon, though)
5. Friday evening I re-read The Actress and the Marquis, and spent most of it amused. I think it really is one of Holbrook's better ones (possibly only surpassed by Lady Megan's Masquerade, and that's because Megan attacks people with swords. Then again, Jez has a good right hook... hrm).
6. For some reason, I re-read Georgiana--I think it was because I'd read something else with the heroine shooting at her intended hero (or almost shooting at him? I have this vague memory of watching/reading something wherein she was really fail at it). Anyway, the book was still as delightful as the last time, and is probably one of those to blame for my instant *SHIPS* reaction to people who point guns at each other. Or swords. Or shoot each other (though I think only the heroine is allowed to injure the hero. The other way round doesn't quite work for me).
6a. No, seriously, have the heroine pull a gun and/or sword and/or knife on the hero, and I am pretty much sold on the ship right there (Snow/Charming, Kara/Sam, Snow White/Huntsman dude...). A sub-set of this is simply the heroine being comfortable with borrowing weapons from the hero (like that time Kara stole Sam's belt-knife.)
7. It's possible I've read more books in the last two weeks than I did the entirety of last year. Hrm.
8. I got four regency Christmas anthologies from the library, as I like short stories (and they had tales from Carla Kelly and Barbara Metzger and Emma Jensen in them). One I realized I already owned and didn't bother reading, one had one new story (an Emma Jensen tale), one I'd read before but enjoyed... And the fourth had a story by Carla Kelly which was possibly one of the worst things I've ever read by her. She's usually very good (With This Ring is one of my favorite books to re-read!), but this story felt like it was a half-finished modern tale that was re-vamped and re-worked (ffs, the heroine calls the hero a 'knucklehead' at one point. In a regency!), and not passed through an editor of any sort. It was rather disappointing.
9. I feel like I had more books to talk about, but apparently not.
Booklist for my own memory:
Dragonsdawn - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Minor Indiscretions - Barbara Metzger (re-read)
The Scandalous Story of a True Lady - Barbara Metzger (not the best work she's done, if you're in the line for "pretends to be a mistress" I'd recommend Metzger's Snowdrops and Scandalbroth, or the Holbrook book)
The Actress and the Marquis - Cindy Holbrook (re-read)
Georgiana - Marian Devon (re-read) (I also re-read the beginning and ending of Escapade)
2. Lost Girl is having its season finale next Sunday. What am I going to do while it's on hiatus? *angsts* (that said, 2x21 <3)
3. Mac was back in the latest Phryne Fisher installment (hurrah!). The show continues to be entertaining fluff. With dead bodies.
4. I plowed my way through Dragonsdawn last week (maybe plow is the wrong word, as I mostly enjoyed the re-read, though I disliked Sean Connell a lot more than I did the last time), and skimmed straight through Dragonsong and Dragonsinger last night (OMG THE TEEN ANGST OMG).
4a. This was because I'd managed Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern not that long ago, and didn't hate it. Which is possibly faint praise, as it hit many of my kinks like WORLDWIDE EPIDEMICS and people desperately running against the clock to saaaaave everyone and Moreta basically pwning everyone's balls.
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4b. Now I'm going to slog my way through Dragonflight, though I'm already bogged down a bit (F'lar blames everything on the women of the world, despite said women having little to NO power to effect any changes in said world in the first place. F'lar, your logic sucks). Mostly, I want to punch F'lar and his smugness in the face (it is not a good kind of smug). I'm only a chapter and a half in, though. I might want to knife him soon (I seem to recall a knife fight later on. Perhaps he should lose it)
4c. The hilarious thing about Dragonsdawn was that I'd been thinking of re-reading it, and sort of contemplating going to Half-Price (or the library) for a copy, and I was standing in front of my bookshelf whining mentally about how I'd tossed a lot of my McCaffrey and right there in front of my face was my well-thumbed copy of Dragonsdawn. Sometimes, my brain doesn't work so well. (I think I'm sol on Outlaws and All the Weyrs of Pern, though. sigh. I do still have the three-in-one of 'Flight, 'Quest and White Dragon, though)
5. Friday evening I re-read The Actress and the Marquis, and spent most of it amused. I think it really is one of Holbrook's better ones (possibly only surpassed by Lady Megan's Masquerade, and that's because Megan attacks people with swords. Then again, Jez has a good right hook... hrm).
6. For some reason, I re-read Georgiana--I think it was because I'd read something else with the heroine shooting at her intended hero (or almost shooting at him? I have this vague memory of watching/reading something wherein she was really fail at it). Anyway, the book was still as delightful as the last time, and is probably one of those to blame for my instant *SHIPS* reaction to people who point guns at each other. Or swords. Or shoot each other (though I think only the heroine is allowed to injure the hero. The other way round doesn't quite work for me).
6a. No, seriously, have the heroine pull a gun and/or sword and/or knife on the hero, and I am pretty much sold on the ship right there (Snow/Charming, Kara/Sam, Snow White/Huntsman dude...). A sub-set of this is simply the heroine being comfortable with borrowing weapons from the hero (like that time Kara stole Sam's belt-knife.)
7. It's possible I've read more books in the last two weeks than I did the entirety of last year. Hrm.
8. I got four regency Christmas anthologies from the library, as I like short stories (and they had tales from Carla Kelly and Barbara Metzger and Emma Jensen in them). One I realized I already owned and didn't bother reading, one had one new story (an Emma Jensen tale), one I'd read before but enjoyed... And the fourth had a story by Carla Kelly which was possibly one of the worst things I've ever read by her. She's usually very good (With This Ring is one of my favorite books to re-read!), but this story felt like it was a half-finished modern tale that was re-vamped and re-worked (ffs, the heroine calls the hero a 'knucklehead' at one point. In a regency!), and not passed through an editor of any sort. It was rather disappointing.
9. I feel like I had more books to talk about, but apparently not.
Booklist for my own memory:
Dragonsdawn - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern - Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
Minor Indiscretions - Barbara Metzger (re-read)
The Scandalous Story of a True Lady - Barbara Metzger (not the best work she's done, if you're in the line for "pretends to be a mistress" I'd recommend Metzger's Snowdrops and Scandalbroth, or the Holbrook book)
The Actress and the Marquis - Cindy Holbrook (re-read)
Georgiana - Marian Devon (re-read) (I also re-read the beginning and ending of Escapade)