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In which the most deserving candidate wins
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the Booker Prize!
I would have been beside myself with rage if it hadn't. Best book I've read for years.
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On friending
How, generally speaking, do you aquire new LJ friends?
When you strike up an aquaintance with someone new, do you generally get the measure of them pretty quickly? Or are your first impressions ever wrong?
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A meme it was, a meme, a meme!
Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd ( Read more... ) -
Just out of curiosity...
Am I the only person around here who's wondered about learning Klingon? -
A random poll, as my whimsy takes me
There's a lot of Harriet Vane icons on my flist at the moment, so I just wondered...
Poll Harriet Vane Poll
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Unfinished fic for the record: Rubeus Hagrid and the Eagle of the Ninth
It seems a bit strange to be putting up fic that was 1) jossed very effictively by the real book and 2) as a result completely unfinishable - but I ran across a little cache of fanfic files and decided that it would be a good thing to archive things like this on LJ, just in case I have another Ghastly Accident with my computer, like the time I ( Read more... ) -
Oxfam's most donated books
Here's an interesting Guardian article on the subject. Some surprising names there, though I wasn't surprised to see who topped the list - the local Oxfam's shelves are always full of him.
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A little poll on university relationships, to set the ball rolling after a long break
Reading this article from the BBC, which you may well not want to bother to read, but kicks off with the much quoted figure that one in five university graduates settles down with someone they met at university, really got me thinking. On the whole, I'm inclined to call bullshit. I don't hardly know anyone from university who ended up with an ex- ( Read more... ) -
in which Buffy Meets Edward Cullen
Most of you will probably have seen this clip already, but if not, you really are in for a treat - so I'm putting it here on general principles.
Enjoy!
Buffy/Twilight crossover vid this way... -
The Cute!
Those of you who thought that a pair of baby Tawny Frogmouths were the cutest thing imaginable might like to know that there is now competition from this.
I'm convinced those creatures are toys. Nothing in nature could be so unreasonably cute.