Have just finished a fantasy novel which was pretty much okay except I hated the last few paragraphs, in which our protag wonders whether they Did The Right Thing in preventing the encroachments of The Other World into our consensus reality and had the world lost magicalness somehow thereby.

And okay, they do wonder if it is age and grumpiness and ( Read more... )

On facing pages in today's Guardian G2 section:

I don't complain when I'm ill, but my husband never stops:
I am now eight months pregnant and have many of the usual symptoms: a sore back, sore feet, cramps and so on. I am still working full-time and I make sure that my colleagues are not bothered by my pregnancy. At home, when I tell my husband ( Read more... )

( How old am I at heart? Not yet a fully mature adult it seems )