writerlibrarian: (life on mars)
I have a few to give if anyone is interested. Just leave an email address where to send it. I'll screen the posts.

So far I'm pretty impressed with DW, especially the cross-posting function. It even edits and when your icons are in synch chooses the right one.

I know it's the new shinny thingie and I don't know how it will turn out. But I've rearranged my reading lists something I hadn't done when strikethrough happened and people moved (mostly HP fandom) to IJ. Some comms are starting to be mirrored and brand new comms are cropping up that are being active in inventive ways. I'm thinking age of sail here.

I didn't read outside yesterday, the weather wasn't allowing it but I did work on my knitting, only to frog it this morning because yes I solved one problem but created another one. So it's back to starting prototype 3 and modifying the pattern.

I did finish Nineteen Seventy Four early this morning. I woke up early (5 am) and couldn't go back to sleep. Hence finishing David Peace's opening novel in his Red Riding Quartet series. Dark, so dark and brutal. Grey and muddy. Violence, corruption and desperation, all rolled up into a story line that grips you and doesn't let go of you until the end. It can not end differently and it's bleak and horrible. I'll definitely read the second novel but not for a few months. The images Peace put in my head need to fade.

Books 2007

Apr. 7th, 2007 11:22 am
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25. Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson.
Much better than the first one "Catering to nobody". I read that she changed publisher with her second book which might account for the depth the secondary characters have instead of being paper thin cut out like the first book. Goldy still annoys me to no end but I liked Arch (her son), Tom Schulz (police detective and on and off suitor of Goldy), Julian and the crazy retired General enough to stick with the plot. I was surprised. The character I thought was the culprit wasn't. If only because Davidson managed to surprise me and not go the obvious way I'm gonna read the next one, "The Cereal Murders".






I'm soon going back to Elizabeth Peters and Ramses Emerson all grown up. I'm jumping ahead in the published books to "Guardian of the Horizon" that I've ordered from Amazon UK because that's the edition I want, almost all of my books from that series are from this publisher. I like the size, the feel of the paper much better than the Harper Collins reissue. I'm picky that way. Guardian of the Horizon is right between The Ape Who Guards the Balance and The Falcon at the Portal.

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