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SF Mistressworks meme from eledonecirrhosa
Ian Sales announced at an Eastercon panel that he was releasing this list onto t'interweb, so I have grabbed it. This one is for women SF authors up to the end of the 20th Century. I'll post his separate list of 21st century women SF authors in a bit ( Read more... ) -
Pellegrina's only post about the wedding
Poll
ETA: I realise that the third hamster is ambiguous, and my monarch-slaying hamster sounds like a monarch-slayer-slaying hamster. Oops. -
Luggage anxiety
British Airways broke my suitcase last year. Now I need a new one. They have a deal with Antler.
1. Airlight suitcase is the right size, has useful internal features that fit how I travel with my large suitcase - better than the old one, in fact. It is a bit heavier than I'd like (4.1kg). It is also £15 over the budget that BA had quoted me for ( Read more... ) -
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Happy birthday muuranker! -
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Happy birthday king_pellinor! -
For Tolkien Reading Day...
I listened to Rob Inglis reading the passage where Gollum returns to Frodo and Sam at the top of the stair of Cirith Ungol and watches them sleeping, and looks like a very old hobbit cast out of his own time, and it nearly made me cry on the bus. -
50 Books Every Child Should Read meme
I made this up! Books selected for The Independent by Philip Pullman, Michael Morpurgo, Katy Guest, John Walsh, Michael Rosen. Meme rules: Bold those you read as aged 0-18, italicise those you read aged 19-now, underline those you started but didn't finish, strikethrough those you have never even heard of. Add remarks if you feel like it.
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Hey LJ!
Stop trying to be like Facebook and cut it out with the banners urging me to go do Facebooky crap! -
Plus ça change
"Those who see the Englishman only in town, are apt to form an unfavourable opinion of his social character. He is either absorbed in business, or distracted by the thousand engagements that dissipate time, thought, and feeling, in this huge metropolis. He has, therefore, too commonly a look of hurry and abstraction. Wherever he happens to be, he ( Read more... ) -
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Happy birthday sigisgrim!