winter is coming

Nov 30, 2013 11:08

Not very creative, perhaps, but seasonally appropriate, and anyway it’s freezing in here. It may be mid-sixties autumn outside, warm light and drifting golden leaves, but I keep waking up expecting snow and red-brick towers and black lamp-posts.

Also I’ve finally begun reading A Game of Thrones and am enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would ( Read more... )

books, berkeley, like an adult, celebrating the domestic

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idiosyncreant December 5 2013, 21:07:53 UTC
Rose is my bestest writing friend (also rhinemouse once upon a time) and she wrote a novella/ette? set in the same world that is fantastic and will be out as a digital book thingie. So. I am now super curious what the anagram was!

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timeripple December 7 2013, 19:47:34 UTC
Eeeeee, I really enjoyed the book so much! I was hoping Shade would turn out to be a narratively significant anagram for Hades, as well as being an underworldly reference, but really I suppose it would have been too much. I loved all the mythological references and trope-playing! And the whole world, really. And especially, especially, especially that fact that it was funny.

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idiosyncreant December 7 2013, 22:34:12 UTC
THERE IS A REASON I LOVE HER WRITING

(we exchange shojo manga recommendations and manuscripts)

is it okay if I pass on that thought, because she would probably LOVE that idea?

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timeripple December 8 2013, 06:15:38 UTC
Of course! I plan to review the book at some length over on my day-job blog as soon as we all recover from the holidays.

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