Sore Legs, Shakespeare and Steampunk

[gehayi]

My right leg is not handling the fluctuating humidity well. Right now I have a great raw patch on my lower right calf that is the result of two large blisters bursting and one bandage that got saturated with water and lymphatic fluid and that pulled off a strip of waterlogged skin when I changed the stupid thing. The leg is very tender and is not

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[lareinenoire]

Oooh, yes! I've only read Soulless so far, and, aside from a few random anachronistic bits of dialogue, I absolutely loved it (I am incredibly picky about Victorian dialogue, steampunk or otherwise). Alexia is such a fun heroine but what I love most -- more or less as you do -- is the universe. It's just so beautifully put together, and everything gets explained, and it feels completely realistic. I haven't managed to get Changeless yet, but it's on my list.

And that is very annoying about the Shakespeare DVDs! Is your computer able to play .avi and .mkv files? If so, I'll go ahead and burn Chimes at Midnight and Merchant of Venice onto a DVD for you (they'll be data files, so you'll need to play them on a computer; I don't know how to make them play on a DVD player, I'm afraid).

Only Steampunk Icon I Have

[gehayi]

I've just been told by my housemate that while the Bishop's Corner branch of the library has nothing as far as DVDs go, the main branch has an entire shelf of DVDs on Shakespeare in the Drama and Documentaries sections.

I honestly don't know if my computer can handle .avi or .mkv files, so please hold off on that until I can contact my computer guy. (His ex died in her sleep on Monday, so it will likely be a while before I feel that I can get in touch with him.)

what I love most -- more or less as you do -- is the universe. It's just so beautifully put together, and everything gets explained, and it feels completely realistic.

And yes, exactly! The world clicks along very neatly and it all fits together. it's quite brilliant.

You'll love Changeless. Oh, and Blameless will be released September 1st.

I just realized that I do not have Victorian icons. Or anything with dirigibles. Clearly this is deeply wrong.

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[lareinenoire]

Okay, no problem! Just let me know whenever and I'm happy to send them your way. :)

And that's awful news about your computer guy.

I just realized that I do not have Victorian icons. Or anything with dirigibles. Clearly this is deeply wrong.

I only have one Victorian icon in the roster at the moment, but I only have a Plus account. I must admit, although I hated the script with a blinding passion, I bet icons from The Golden Compass would be sufficiently steampunky. Yours is adorable, though. Runcible gun!

[gehayi]

Yay! So glad you're getting it!

[skull_bearer]

That is so awesome I just bought iot off amazon.

[gehayi]

Excellent! I'm so glad. Everyone should read this series.

[ctrl_issue]

I don't read much in the way of het, but I have to agree that this series of books is astonishingly well done. I mean, I was laughing out loud in front of my gamer roommates and just reading little blurbs that amused me. Not only is it well written, but the supporting cast is eclectic and diverse and FUN.

So, yeah, I gotta agree that the Parasol series is of the uber.

[gehayi]

It IS! And Alexia is proactive and does not sit around waiting for a man to save her and is rational and sarcastic in a crisis and LOVES making out. I love little Alexia deciding at age six that she'd better study up on ethics since she didn't have a soul and therefore didn't have a natural conscience.

And Ivy Hisselpenny has gloriously bad taste in hats and is incredibly, beautifully dense about Alexia's soullessness. (In fact, she's so dense I wonder if she hasn't decided to ignore that slight defect out of courtesy.)

And Professor Lyall is pretty much how I originally pictured Remus Lupin.

I hardly read any het either, mostly because published het tends to be horribly boring. The women are passive and the men are jerks.

[jetamors]

Hope the humidity breaks soon! And that's so weird that the library didn't have any Shakespeare adaptations.

That sounds like a really great book series, I'll put it on my list.

[gehayi]

Apparently there are Shakespeare adaptations in the main library, but not in the Bishop's Corner branch. I do think that's idiotic, but that's just me.

Yay! More people reading it!