It's been a while, kittens, and much has happened! Last weekend was my friend's bachelorette celebrations, which took me to St. Louis (where she lives) and then to Chicago (where I'd never been before) and included much sight-seeing and drinks and dancing and horrible terrible blisters on the bottoms of my feet from shoes that had never failed me ( Read more... )

Between this week and last, I've read a lot of books with French references and settings - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender with its French-style bakery and Anna and the French Kiss and Just One Day being set in Paris - and as a result had to purchase baguettes and macarons. I regret nothing ( Read more... )

I read a lot of YA lit. I have better success with going and choosing a book from the shelf in the YA section than I do in literary fiction, and frankly, I'm here for great characters and great stories told through great writing, not for novels of great writing with the flat characters and go-nowhere plots that I find dominate literary fiction. Lit ( Read more... )

I am sick and it sucks, but that's no reason not to go ahead and make a list of things that didn't suck this week. And then I'm going to make some soup and lie on the couch ( Read more... )

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Like a lot of people, my knee-jerk reaction to the scene in which Jaime rapes Cersei in the sept (next to the body of their dead son, naturally) was very much Do Not Want, but I wasn't sure exactly why. It has been suggested that people are mad because they don't want to stan for a rapist, which is supremely insulting and also clearly not true ( Read more... )

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