A day late and hopefully not a dollar short, but as my chapter opens on 1 April, I thought it appropriate! (Also, I'd never really noticed before carrying the book around with me all the time for this project, but the cover I have-the US paperback cover that ties into the BBC series- has Harriet looking like Harriet Walter but Peter mysteriously ( Read more... )

I am so sorry to be so late and no excuse to offer. *hides face in shame* Mea culpa, as Saint George says when he spills the pastries.

Chapters:  7 & 8

Brief synopsis: Harriet the Ghost Hunter spends a goodly amount of time in the library following the model of many scholars of my acquaintance catching up on sleep researching Sheridan Lefanu and ( Read more... )

My apologies for the lateness of this, but both of my copies went missing for a while. By the way, Gaudy Night is currently not available pretty much any place I looked. Possibly this means the publisher is preparing a new edition (and, hopefully, an electronic one as well).

Brief synopsis:
( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 3

Last day of the Gaudy. Miss Lydgate is drowning in typefaces and really really needs the invention of WYSIWYG word processing for which she will have to wait another 60 years. That said, she would be the sort to cover the final pdf with last-minute changes in electronic sticky notes and still have DTP departments everywhere ( Read more... )

Chapters 1-2: in which we meet a whole host of complicated characters talking about complicated things.

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Our story begins with our intrepid heroine, who clearly feels she hasn’t had enough to angst about the last few years so has decided to attend her High School reunion college’s Gaudy. It turns out she was BFFs with one of the ( Read more... )

I have no excuse for wandering off other than sheer laziness. Work makes me very inclined to do nothing when I am not working.

As such: anyone interested in helping co-mod this place, please email me at sweet.opal.fruits @ gmail.com (no spaces). It's not a strenuous job: will mostly just involve poking people if they forget to post their update ( Read more... )