ahem.

1. In case anyone had forgotten, halfamoon starts tomorrow (today?) Eee.

2. also, womenverse starts a new round.

3. And there's a We Love Women friending meme going round.

4. In other news, I am cold and should sleep. soon.

5. Updated booklist (finishing off 2012, adding 2013)( Read more... )

I have come to the conclusion that full-length romance novels and I just don't get along. It's the only explanation I have for my dislike of both the full-length Barbara Metzger novels I've read ( Read more... )

The problem with reading Lucie Aubrac's memoir about her time in the resistance in France during WWII is that one remembers Ron and company going on about the New Caprica occupation being Just Like Vichy France ( Read more... )

1. But I am not sleepy. Yet.

2. I signed up for femslash12, and a part of me is terrified that I'll fail at managing to write. But I do keep writing drabbles, so I suppose that's one thing? ( Laura Cadman/Kate Heightmeyer - possibly the fluffiest thing I've ever written, good grief)

3. womenverse seems to be going well, and it's entertaining. ( Recent graphics challenges )

1. I saw a unicyclist riding along the lakeside on my way home ( Read more... )

1. Someone has uploaded the entirety of Mother Love to Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPXDSOcIsc (I have no watched it twice through and gotten the book from the library and re-read it) Also, I've watched ML a good twenty+ times, so you can imagine that I think it's ( Read more... )

1. Sigh. I'm trying to read Blood Law by Jeannie Holmes, and it's hard-going, because the heroine keeps getting injured/knocked out, and dudes stand around measuring their wangs to prove how amazing they are at keeping her alive. I almost dumped it in the first chapter when a scene occurs with two dudes who decide they totally know what's best for ( Read more... )

1. On Saturday, I went and had lunch with frobisher at the Milwaukee Public Market. It was excellent.

2. Sunday, I discovered I was hitting a wall in Bring it On (Laura Anne Gilman), in that the SAME THINGS that had happened in the previous two books were happening in this one. And I suddenly hit a point where I was tired of the over-arcing plot GOING ( Read more... )

So, in reading the Vera Atkins biography (A Life In Secrets by Sarah Helm), I have to keep stopping--at first it was because there's only so much about Nazi war atrocities one can read before needing some fluffy kittens.

BUT, but now I'm having to stop, like, every page because of HOW INCOMPETENT the SOE people in London were. Seriously. When you ( Read more... )

1. I received this PM from a ff'net user: i still cant figure out how u wrote all those stories. - and I'm currently thinking of replying "there is this thing called imagination. Have you used it, recently?"

2. I read Ash by Malindo Lo due to someone on Goodreads referencing it as the ~lesbian Cinderella. And, no. It's really not. For it to be ( Read more... )