Science fiction, part of the Culture series and methinks one best approached via the first three books. Big and complex; this ties in a massively complex plot focussed on the nature of the universe, with a love affair gone bad and its 40 year consequences. I suspect you have to have a certain type of patience to read this happily as the threads ( Read more... )

• Bought a ridiculously expensive plasma television and had the fun of connecting it to various peripherals then the more substantial fun of playing all sorts of things on it to see what it does. We've retired the projector and now there is a wall of sleek, black 'stuff.'
• Went paddling Saturday morning, got very wet. Also got smacked on the head with ( Read more... )

Hurrah! Consensus achieved - contributions by persons not actually coming still valued. *grins*
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Oops, we haven't planned our walk for this weekend yet - where should we go?

View poll: Location, location
Saturday 8th May, 5pm-ish. All welcome.

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We packed our kits the night before so that we could drive up early in the morning - pets make camping the night before problematic. I fell prey to The Lakes exit now being on the other side of the truckstop which says a lot about how long it's been since I drove out that way regularly, the denseness of the morning fog and the force of habit ( Read more... )

Murder and Martinis by gigglingkat (Jared/Jensen) PG-13. A 29,750 word RPS AU movie remix of The Thin Man. Detective 'noir' murder mystery with a lovely light touch. It features Jared Padalecki the ex detective/playboy happily married to millionaire Jensen Ackles on holiday in New York. His old life comes back to haunt him in the form of a lovely ( Read more... )

Fun, shiny, silly. I loved it.

I find it a lot easier to watch a movie with various feminist fail points when it’s from the POV of a character who is an acknowledged narcissistic sexist git.

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• Try Me by Parker Blue. LibraryThing Early Reviewers. YA urban supernatural paranormal romance fantasy. Val is one eighth incubus; super fast, super strong, has a telepathic part hellhound terrier and refers to her demonic side in the third person (Lola). She works for the Special Crimes Unit who aren’t keen when they find out she’s part demon ( Read more... )

• Supernatural: Brothers have pointed out that Lucifer would not play well in the wet. ( Spoilers for 2x19 )