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Mondays
I am so useless on Mondays - I always have been but when you're still at home it's so hard to make yourself go back to work.
Have y'all seen Emma? I'm pretty enchanted with it, apart from some of the casting (Jane Fairfax looks much older than Emma, Frank Churchill isn't very handsome or charming, and Harriet is supposed to be gorgeous - Harriet ( Read more... ) -
Media Update
I try to take fiction breaks between non-fiction book, or every couple of non-fiction books, and this time I picked up The Ring and the Crown by Melissa de la Cruz, a YA novel set in a world where magic is real, Merlin is borderline immortal and helped England win the Hundred Years War, and in 1900 the heir to the Anglo-French Empire is being ( Read more... ) -
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There are a lot of people on Tumblr who are so smug about their highbrow taste and their non-fannishness but are also obsessed with UST between male characters who will never be in a relationship in classic lit and tv shows. Just saying ( Read more... ) -
Done!
Finished Sorcerer to the Crown, time to update my analysis! (Very spoilery.)
( Definitely liking it more than I was halfway through ) -
Sorcerer to the Crown
Time for my traditional halfway-through-review, when I write about the book I'm currently reading because even though it's not finished, I have a lot of thoughts!
( Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho ) -
Buying vintage clothes is now a business expense
(Although I don't overly benefit because I obviously can't wear them - my measurements are roughly 44-35-44 ( Read more... ) -
Forgot to ask
Hey, anybody interested in two free tickets to the Chester County (PA) Historical Society? I got them in a silent auction at the CSA symposium and then forgot about them. I think a bunch of you are in that general area - I'm happy to stick them in the mail if you think you might actually go! But they expire on October 19 so I've got to do something ( Read more... ) -
Carnival Row
It's an interesting show. (Amazon Prime.) The basic premise is that humans and the fae - represented in two varieties, one with ram's horns, one with wings - coexist in a secondary world setting; some humans have been killing the fae and chasing them out of their lands, which leads them to flee to The Burgue, a human city somewhere, where in many ( Read more... ) -
Actually, that last bit isn't such a bad idea
Gosh, Tumblr is particularly insufferable lately. There are always a few posts floating around re: "I was labeled gifted/smart in school and it gave me anxiety/meant I never learned how to study," but for some reason this week they seem to have set off a bunch of scorching discourse on why it's bad to do programs aimed at high-achieving students ( Read more... )