I've been ill with a cold so didn't crack open any [adult] books. Read the obituary about the founder of Burt's Bees in The Economist, a bit of Twitter, a bit of FB, dabbled about in the latest Nature but nothing stuck. Read recipes for bread and cookies. Read loads of children's books as the weather was foul and the toddler is going through a phase where she's memorising all her favourites and practising reciting them after we read them.
Honestly, they're so great. Why do adult books get so boring, with all the characters being adult humans and doing boring adult human things, like being nasty to one another all the time?
I have read my reading page, my friends page, the latest installment of seanan_mcguire's Velveteen Vs. saga, some Twitter, a spot of fanfiction, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, some more of the absolutely riveting quips file in work bugzilla, plus a snippet or two of the Wikipedia article on rainbow tables. And I just finished the most recent of the_comfortable_courtesan having caught up on all the back reading -- it is a delightful romp and starts here: http://the-comfortable-courtesan.dreamwidth.org/1214.html
My friend Sunny is of the opinion that nothing would suit Mr. Angel Clare
from Tess more than to open a shipping-box to meet an
ill-tempered swan. So I had to find out exactly what he had done in order
to deserve that. Nothing good, I am afraid. The other chief villain of the
piece has some rough justice administered within the text, and is no longer
in a condition to open shipping-boxes, otherwise Mr. Alec d'Urberville
should have got one as well.
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Date: 2015-07-26 09:43 pm (UTC)Currently catching up with DW reading page.
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Date: 2015-07-27 12:29 pm (UTC)I do so love my daily dose of Madame C-. :D
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Date: 2015-07-27 02:51 pm (UTC)My friend Sunny is of the opinion that nothing would suit Mr. Angel Clare from Tess more than to open a shipping-box to meet an ill-tempered swan. So I had to find out exactly what he had done in order to deserve that. Nothing good, I am afraid. The other chief villain of the piece has some rough justice administered within the text, and is no longer in a condition to open shipping-boxes, otherwise Mr. Alec d'Urberville should have got one as well.
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Date: 2015-07-27 12:27 pm (UTC)When is the Hugo deadline? I'm not putting myself through any of the puppy stuff, but I do want to remember to vote.
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