Oh man, I promised myself I'd take a break tonight and watch SJA (which I did ♥) and Castle (which I will as soon as I post this), but I read a few more pages while waiting for the water for my shower to warm up and came across this:

"But I suspect the passion with which they don't discuss him ( Read more... )

D:

Anyone read any fic lately where people are nice to each other and aren't forced to murder little children? Before I read the next book where he's at Ivan IV's court and there will no doubt be at least several annoying inaccuracies/unpleasant tropes?

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Daaamn, Jerott continues to provide most of the wangst in this book.

"God damn you both," Jerott said through his teeth, and, flinging away from her, stood, breathing hard, at the one unshuttered window, unseeing, his hands fists on the sill. "You summon and you throw away. You treat love like a bird for the table... Like a pawn, now in ( Read more... )

-- Blackout/All Clear would lend itself really well to miniseries format. Even better than novel format. And if it is ever made into a miniseries (oh please please please), I will be able to vid it to Edith Piaf's La Foule which is all about a mob pushing two people together and apart. It fits the tone and themes of the book so well it's scary. I ( Read more... )

( One last theory about All Clear )

I am wearing pink and black today! This helps me stay awake, because I stayed up two hours past my bedtime to finish reading The Disorderly Knights.

( I promised myself I'd review them all when I've read them all, but… lots of mfing spoilers )

I wrote this long, anguished speculation about the way The Disorderly Knights was going to turn out, but between last night and this afternoon Dunnet killed off two of my favorite minor characters, damn her. LOLmond indeed. So I'm just going to finish it.

Instead, here is my favorite line so far:

"My dear, my dear," said Kate, but to herself. "I ( Read more... )

This is mostly just to register my epic eyeroll at the text under the cut.

( Oh, come on, Oonagh )

LOLymond? LOLmond?

"If I were twenty Scotsmen you might hide your perfidious political faces behind me, but I cannot see that you may hide behind one."

"But you-- " began the Constable, a little tardily.

"--are the equal of twenty. I believe it. But would your Treasurer believe it?" said Francis Crawford amiably.
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Decision to read Queen's Play first was the correct one, as you all will be happy to hear. Not that I consciously made a decision; I carried The Idiot with me for one day, engaged enough, but Queen's Play was just lying there on the table, making my heart twist in anticipation, and oh, it's good ( Read more... )