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Friending Meme and Other Thoughts
Apr. 8th, 2010 03:08 pmToday's Thursday. I wish it was Friday...
But since it's not, I can only do two things here...make recs and respond to
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hoosierbitch's request for my response to the friending meme. Recs first (all links go to Amazon.com, pls forgive me).
I am reading, for the 10th or 20th time, Lois McMaster Bujold's Curse of Chalion. I love this book so much, I've bought it twice in paperback (I thought I lost my original copy), once as an audiobook from Audible, and again for my Kindle. LMB has created a perfectly thoughtout world - complete with theology and hagiography, but also a rollicking good story too. Everytime I re-read this book, I find something completely new, and surprising. I also love Paladin of Souls, a direct sequel. The Hallowed Hunt, which is set in the same world, is good but really quite different. I hope the LMB will return to this realm.
Another book/series with potential for greatness is Sasha, book 1 of the Trials of Blood and Steel, by Australian author, Joel Shepherd. The sequel, Petrodor was just released, but not - sadly for me - in ebook format. I have a hard time these days with dead tree books.
In non-fiction, I'm working my way through the 2009 edition of the Best American Essays, edited by Robert Atwan and Mary Oliver. In the last decade, I've discovered many wonderful writers between the covers of this series, particularly Andre Aciman, and his essays that formed the core of Out of Egypt.
Two humor recs - one fiction, and one non-fiction.
If you haven't read them yet, go do so IMMEDIATELY - Jaspter Fforde's Thursday Next series - The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten and First Among Sequels. This is the ultimate AU. Books are real - if you change the author's first copy, all other editions are changed too. And how can you resist any story where the villain's name is Jack Schitt?
I can't rec Bill Bryson enough...surely you've read A Walk in the Woods, about a fat man's sojourn up the Appalacian Trail? But have you found In a Sunburned Country, about his travels through Australia? I listened to this first as an audiobook, and nearly caused a massive pileup on the Cross Bronx Expressway because I was laughing so damn hard.
(There were music recs here - but LJ ate them at posting...grrr).
On to the Meme:
Six Names I Go By:
1. L
2.
elrhiarhodan 3. Dreadnought
4. Bitch
5. Fat Bitch
6. Leitska
Three Things I Am Wearing Right Now:
1. A black bra
2. A heavy gold necklace
3. Black wedge sandles
Three Things I Want Very Badly At This Moment
1. My iPad
2.
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gyzym 's Girl!Neal porn, too3. The Roman slave A/U fic I heard that some bitch is working on
Three People Whom I Hope Will Do the Meme
gyzym photoash shea Three Things I Did Last Night
1. Wrote 1500 more words for Vampire!Peter fic
2. Played dirty!girl with my vibrator
3. Slept
Three People I Last Talked to On The Phone
1. My father
2. MDF Valerie
3. My sister, who wanted to wish me an almost happy birthday
Three Things I Am Going To Do Tomorrow
1. Go to Work and Leave Early, because SATURDAY is my birthday, BITCHES
2. Finish Vampire!Peter fic
3. Work on Neal in Paris - the flashback!sex scenes
Three Of My Favorite Drinks
1. Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin
2. Calvados
3. Seltzer - Ice, no Lemon
Three Things That Made Me Smile Today
1. The rec by
gyzym for Wash the Sins Away. As well as all of the great comments that my readers/flist made. 2, Getting tagged for this meme by
hoosierbitch 3. It's 76 degrees outside and all the cherry trees are in full bloom
Like I said above, it's my birthday on Saturday, and I'm heading out of town...but unless there's no 3G, I'll be around, babes.
Elr.
