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CRIME IN CLUBLAND
So I'm catsitting in London for my friend Saskia for 5 days. She is in Rome with her lovely and brilliant daughter (currently acing it at Christ Church, Oxford), I am in her charming Bayswater flat with her two cats, Willow who's beautiful and hostile, and Barley who is a very, very cool cat. Which is good, because I'm here not only to feed the two ( Read more... ) -
Fuck you, 2022.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( Read more... ) -
Fausta, 2005-2022
Fausta is dead.
I took her Wednesday afternoon to the vet's, because I worried that she was not in good shape again, and losing weight. We did bloodwork, which looked relatively normal until the nice Dr Elbaz ran one of the samples through a more powerful machine, diluted to make analysis easier. The results were through the roof, white cells and ( Read more... ) -
Tor's editors have made a HASH of Avoliot's Course of Honour. Yes, have been reading Winter's Orbit.
I've now read Winter's Orbit, the published version of Avoliot's wonderful The Course of Honour - and I hate it. Well, not exactly hate, since there's enough of the original material left in it to make you aware of what horrors were perpetrated on the text. I LOATHE what Tor's editors did to it. CoH was a quirky atmospheric whodunit with plenty of ( Read more... ) -
Was re-reading The Unknown Ajax...
...and young Miles was initially modelled on Richmond Darracott, wasn't he? Lord Darracott certainly is General Piotr as he suddenly stops despising the "puling brat" who's always ill, when at five Richmond managed to ride his largest hunter out of the stables.
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Meghxit, Pursued by a Bear Market
Megs: "Come on, Hazza, leave this pack of wrinklies behind, celebrity culture will make us RICH!"
Celebrity culture: *dies*
Hazza: *whines*
Megs: *sues everyone in sight*
Lawyers, spindocs, agent, private security: *meter running*
Next instalment: *writes itself*
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Georgette Heyer's The Great Roxhythe
I've finally got hold of a copy of Georgette Heyer's suppressed 1923 novel "The Great Roxhythe", and stap me if it isn't her Great Gay Novel. Well, as gay as you could make them in 1923, but TWO homoerotic relationships? I hope the ebook edition means there will be FANFIC.
It's a snip on Kindle, anyway:
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Abir Mukherjee’s Wyndham and Banerjee series
How is it possible that there isn’t yet fanfic for Abir Mukherjee’s Sam Wyndham and "Surrender-not" Banerjee series? For one thing, the slash practically writes itself. For another - Raj! Colonial issues! Post WWI India! Disillusioned English hero! Idealistic Indian sergeant with a brain (and a public-school education)! Maharajas! Femmes fatales! ( Read more... ) -
I am all thumbs
Looks like the new (wrong) display of this journal is in fact the one of the separate comm I created for Course of Honour fics. I will fix this once I'm back on the desktop; but in the meantime, bear with me? Facebook has made me inept and lazy.
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There I've gone & created a comm for Avoliot's "Course of Honour"
Well, it needed doing, right? Now that the novel is complete, what's required is fanfic, endless arguments, art, etc.
So y'all come join
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