Because it has been a long time since I read some of these, and because I really only snapped photos of the spines before taking them back to the library (because I was too lazy to write blog posts? I dunno), I'm mostly just going to list titles and maybe provide brief summaries. Though I may go back and add more about some of these. Maybe. Grouped ( Read more... )

The first time the magic acted through Isobel, it went through her like a sneeze. Not just a polite little achoo of a sneeze either; rather, the kind of sneeze that shakes your entire body and leaves you poking globs of snot and hoping they aren’t actually bits of brain, since it feels rather like you sneezed yours out of you. But instead of globs ( Read more... )

Well, probably not. But I was in Ocean State Job Lot and they had strawberries and blackberries and blueberries and raspberries in bare root form, and I bought a bunch because hey, they were inexpensive and I like fruit. The worst case scenario is that none of them end up taking and I'm out about $40. The best case scenario is I get delicious ( Read more... )

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher was an interesting experience. ( And here I cut for spoilers. )

I've been reading myself some Heyer recently, and I love this one the most of those I've read. Why? I SHALL TELL YOU.

Enter a beautiful young woman and her brother.YOUNG WOMAN: La, I am Robin, a short young man dressed up as a woman ( Read more... )

Now that I've read Cress and been rewarded with the news that it is, in fact, a Rapunzel retelling, I find myself wondering why I didn't pick up on the more obvious signs from Cinder and Scarlet. Like Captain Thorne. And his ship, a Rampion. WHY DID I NOT CONNECT THOSE DOTS SOONER. I SHOULD BE BETTER AT FAIRY TALES THAN THIS.

I quite enjoyed Epic ( Read more... )

And also more time trying to draw people not in a left-facing 3/4 profile.

And also more time drawing, period, dangit I will get the hang of using a brush pen if it's the last thing I do.

Not much context, really, other than I finally got off my lazy butt and signed up for Portrait Adoption and am using it as an excuse to draw faces. (As ( Read more... )

... I would be completely incapable of taking it seriously ( Read more... )

Just, you know, in a weirdly not-very sort of way ( Read more... )

Ben and I have been rewatching Stargate SG-1 lately, and it caused me to come to a rather disturbing conclusion: One of my narrative kinks is a jerk with a redemption arc. Particularly if the jerk in question is too smarmy for his own good ( Read more... )