guess what started today ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
brunelleschi's dome which i enjoyed because a. architecture! b. renaissance engineering! and c. it's just very entertainingly written. but i really wanted some modern diagrams because a lot of the descriptions of how the dome was built were hard to visualize.

What I am reading now:
alif the unseen by g willow wilson ( Read more... )

pretend it's yesterday. >.<

What I just finished reading:
sorcery and cecelia which was quite a fun ride. the epistolary part didn't bother me and the regency setting just made me picture all the ladies in empire waist dresses and all the men in tight pants. (not that i have any idea what men wore in regency england but in my head it was tight ( Read more... )

pretend it's yesterday. :D

What I just finished reading:
the lost girls of paris, which i kind of liked and kind of didn't. there was an interesting story there but i don't think pam jenoff really wrote it. one of the three pov threads had a dumb romance - the lost girl in that segment and the love interest (who was pretty easily pegged as the ( Read more... )

happy day after inauguration day, my fellow americans! i didn't watch any of it altho today i found a video of the youth poet laureate, amanda gorman. she was great. i'm excited for the new administration, mostly because i'm excited and relieved to have an adult in charge again.

officially signed up for spn-j2-bigbang, should probably get with the drafting ( Read more... )

so i had this idea for a story for writing group (action! adventure! deserts! potential weird shit!) (altho maybe mountains instead!) and because i have no idea how to write this thing, i discovered a fic on ao3 that seemed to have the general idea. so i thought i'd read it to get an idea how it's done, right? not for story ideas, but just to see ( Read more... )

on friday, to celebrate my last weekday of unemployment, i went to see the kitchen, and i think i liked it. it was pretty violent, but it's about mobsters and criminals, and at least most of the violence was of the "dead with one shot" variety, rather than a lot of spraying bullets and people getting beat up. the soundtrack was good, nyc looked ( Read more... )

(i heard bela lugosi's dead on my way home from the laundromat. :D ) happy halloween, o my flist, and a blessed samhain to them what celebrate. ^"^

also a slightly late happy birthday to
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first, happy slightly late birthday to deaver, who makes me kind of jealous with her hiking trip pics. here's to peace and quiet and adorable nieces. :D also, cake.

dancing boys: *tango*

ghostbusters was just on and i have to say, as much as i liked the first one - dogs and cats, living together! - i'm really excited for the new one. a. it's filming ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
tales of burning love, which i mostly managed to enjoy (more or less) even tho i didn't like most of the characters most of the time. it's about jack mauser and his four living ex-wives (with occasional mentions of his very first wife, who walked into a spring snowstorm and froze to death), and i liked him only about ( Read more... )