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I only steal to support my poor lazy twin brother, whose indolence broke our mother’s heart
Day 25 - A character who you can relate to the most
Davy Rice (Steven Gould, Jumper). Yes, I identify with a high school dropout who fled his abusive home in order to rob banks with his mad teleporting skillz. No, I am none of those things - a high school dropout, an abused child, a bank robber or a teleporter. Yes, they made it into a movie ( Read more... ) -
mini friends cut
+ It's my fault, really, for being overenthusiastic about adding people. I'm so sorry to do this - friend people and then unfriend them, I mean - but in retrospect it should have been obvious that not everybody hits it off - not even two people with mountains of common interests - and when I haven't commented on someone's journal in months I feel ( Read more... ) -
o fish, are you constant to the old covenant?
Day 23 - A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven't
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces.
When I was in high school I wrote a story about why Cassandra spurned Apollo. It was for English class. We were reading Rita Dove's Mother Love, which is a collection of poems about Persephone being a prostitute in fin de siècle Paris and Demeter ( Read more... ) -
all these i place between myself and the powers of darkness
Day 21 - Favorite romance book
Georgette Heyer, False Colours. This was tough as I love Joan Wolf - especially The Road to Avalon and Born of the Sun, Arthur/Morgana represent - but if we're going to be bandying epithets like "Favorite Romance Book" about there is no doubt in my mind: All hail the queen of Regency romance, Georgette Heyer.
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you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him
Day 19 - A book that disappointed you
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay. It had to be said. I don't actually have any criticism of the book itself, and I am by turns gobsmacked by and unspeakably grateful for the amount of fannish activity that it has generated, but. But. There are a couple of things going on. I think, first of all, it's much easier to ( Read more... ) -
things i am reading + things you should read
+ Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis, WWII alternate history in which the Germans have X-men, the British have the Blair Witch Project and there is a bonus crazy girl/seer/oracle/Cassandra type. It's light on characterization and heavy on action, which is fine by me. I haven't been this excited for the first book in a trilogy for awhile. Go here for an ( Read more... ) -
my life as a musical
Meme snagged from nani1986 : Put your iTunes on shuffle and let it answer the questions.
(I may have cheated by skipping some songs that I've never listened to and wouldn't have recognized if I met them on the street. I need to spend like ten hours organizing my iTunes library.)
1. If someone says “you’re hot”, you say?
¿Dónde están los ladrones? - Shakira
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I could read you like a book, if I could read, which I can’t, on account of having too much sense
Day 15 - Favorite male character
Thomas of Hookton (Bernard Cornwell, Harlequin. Sequels Vagabond and Heretic). The first book is billed as The Archer's Tale in the U.S. - not sure why, did they think we in Amurka were incapable of googling the word "harlequin"?
[Speaking of which, Google Instant is trying to kill me! This on top of the recent LJ/ ( Read more... )
