various wafflings
Feb. 24th, 2006 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kennahijjaDuh, I've been out pretty much over the last few days, with the cold that refuses to leave, nursing a severe sore throat and drowning myself in tea... It's actually better at work because I don't have the time for self-pity :).
I've not been totally lazy though -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_con_cept, I hope my mail made it through (wobbled a bit during the sending, so yell if it didn't). And leni_jess and dracos_doll, you'll have a story in your inboxes tomorrow night even if it kills me. Or Sunday the latest, if I really can't crawl out tomorrow.
*eyes Rita/Hermione, then deadline, and shudders, and goes back to sniffling*
And here I went and wanted to make myself a HP film icon, and what did I end up with? Mrs Norris... Then again, there can never be enough cats...
On the upside, my local British Corner bookstore seems to like me - I went there whenchthonya recced me Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart (which is a great book if you like historical fantasy with a dose of BDSM smut), and I got lucky again with Sarah Waters' Fingersmith which both fee_absinthe and dracos_doll discussed very recently, and I *did* joke about perhaps finding one of her books there, but never really dared hope. I spent the last two days devouring it, and it's a marvellous Victorian suspense novel with a lesbian relationship, and a gorgeous plot. The historical atmosphere alone is wonderful.
And even though I usually deplore manga (the style is very much not my thing), I was so tempted byliriaen's ecstatic gushing over Cantarella by You Higuri (the story of Cesare Borgia, comparatively close to history) that I picked up the first book, and was pretty blown away. I still hate the manga-style drawing of children, and the 'childification' of characters in general, but in other parts the artwork left me speechless, as did the recognition factor of historical characters (I did have a few months' research mania on the 'real' Borgias, and Renaissance Italy in general a few years back). And the slash subtext just gives it extra spice ;). I picked up the second book this morning, and can't wait! No wonder I'm not writing...
I've not been totally lazy though -
the_con_cept, I hope my mail made it through (wobbled a bit during the sending, so yell if it didn't). And leni_jess and dracos_doll, you'll have a story in your inboxes tomorrow night even if it kills me. Or Sunday the latest, if I really can't crawl out tomorrow.*eyes Rita/Hermione, then deadline, and shudders, and goes back to sniffling*
And here I went and wanted to make myself a HP film icon, and what did I end up with? Mrs Norris... Then again, there can never be enough cats...
On the upside, my local British Corner bookstore seems to like me - I went there when
chthonya recced me Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart (which is a great book if you like historical fantasy with a dose of BDSM smut), and I got lucky again with Sarah Waters' Fingersmith which both fee_absinthe and dracos_doll discussed very recently, and I *did* joke about perhaps finding one of her books there, but never really dared hope. I spent the last two days devouring it, and it's a marvellous Victorian suspense novel with a lesbian relationship, and a gorgeous plot. The historical atmosphere alone is wonderful. And even though I usually deplore manga (the style is very much not my thing), I was so tempted by
liriaen's ecstatic gushing over Cantarella by You Higuri (the story of Cesare Borgia, comparatively close to history) that I picked up the first book, and was pretty blown away. I still hate the manga-style drawing of children, and the 'childification' of characters in general, but in other parts the artwork left me speechless, as did the recognition factor of historical characters (I did have a few months' research mania on the 'real' Borgias, and Renaissance Italy in general a few years back). And the slash subtext just gives it extra spice ;). I picked up the second book this morning, and can't wait! No wonder I'm not writing...