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Currently reading: One of the Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr books- The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, I think it is. Also a facsimile of the 1931 Joy of Cookery, and the book about the Ignobel Prizes ( Read more... ) -
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Because I downloaded a bunch of fic yesterday in preparation for going away next weekend, have some recs from Yuletide 2013! (They're mostly 1-2,000 words or so; they tend to the funny or fluffy rather than angsty but check each one's own tags if you're feeling fragile.)
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New this week
Akebia and wallflowers, violas and lobelias and forget-me-nots, snowflakes and white violets and sweet peas and campanula! (And dandelions).
Also the clematis that dies every winter seems not to have died this time, so perhaps it'll get tall enough to get some sun this summer and bloom next year?
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It lives! It grows!
Lots of things in blossom in my garden- mini daffs, white narcissi, hyacinths, rosemary, aubretia, alyssum, juneberry, primroses, ladies mantle, violets. Oh, and the sweet peas that survived the winter are in bud…
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Reading: Heavy Ice, by Ankaret Wells. (Has lots of plot and intrigue, and very vivid settings, and societies with incompatible world views, and economics, and religions, and an ambiguous villain who's never met a problem that couldn't be solved by marrying a few more people. Favourite character: Strat, aka Hawkwood Stratagem. I want a xenoraptor ( Read more... ) -
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I am having my arse kicked by a cold. (Given to me by an adorable toddler, I think. That'll teach me to admire friends' children.) It's at the stage where I've gone from admiring the hard work of my immune system to wishing that it would just give up and let my whole body become a virus factory because at least then I would be DEAD ( Read more... ) -
Reading Wednesday
Just read: I've been on a Mercedes Lackey binge. Just finished Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin and The Sleeping Partner by Madeleine Robins, too ( Read more... ) -
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Had a nice break, despite the floods- need to find a way to say to a parent "you know, I gave you a wishlist with like 60 things on it. What made you decide that what I really needed was some horrible musk-smelling scented oil and a prescriptivist grammar book by a tory?" but hey, I was always going to get myself the things I most wanted if I wasn' ( Read more... ) -
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Just finished: Digger (the omnibus volume)- happy sigh. (Best bits? The messenger rats, perhaps. Or the shrew troll? Poor sweet Ed? Or Grim Eyes being patronising to the guide? Librarian Vo? Vampire squash? Digger's reaction to being stabbed? All of it is best bits.)
Reading now: Rereading Dave Langford's Critical Mass.
Next: Not sure. Perhaps ( Read more... )