An auspicious beginning ...
Jan. 1st, 2011 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebramptonI had planned to write a short thought-filled essay today.
Prior to that, I had a dinner engagement with a friend who is over from London. I wrote out her Christmas/New Year card. I wished her all the best for 2007.
Dinner was delightful, and I have now downgraded my plans to mineral water and a paperback.
All the best!
Prior to that, I had a dinner engagement with a friend who is over from London. I wrote out her Christmas/New Year card. I wished her all the best for 2007.
Dinner was delightful, and I have now downgraded my plans to mineral water and a paperback.
All the best!
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:20 pm (UTC)Your about 4 years too late for that Brammers! ;)
Happy New Year!!
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:42 pm (UTC)Happy New Year to you, too!
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:22 pm (UTC)Your day sounds infinitely better, even if mine hasn't started properly yet.
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:41 pm (UTC)Weather here appalling, stinky hot in Sydney, ghastly floods in Queensland, you're better off there.
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:54 pm (UTC)May you cool down and the folks that need it, get dry. Oh, and I accept the naplike thoughts. I'm going to sit in my recliner, put my feet up, and assume a supine position soon.
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-01 12:40 pm (UTC)I stick to paperback crime fiction, currently Agatha Christie. No good at romances, I always want to hit someone!
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Date: 2011-01-01 01:23 pm (UTC)I read her for the romance, though I ran out of non-Poirot-or-Marple books now, bah. The loss of blanking out the worst crap is perhaps the most painful for me as a reader. I once was able to enjoy Narnia where I am now unable to read about Aslan. I once found and felt the undeniable pull of attraction between two people in a range of books where now there is nothing but the need to "mate" making the antagonistic and brutal treatment of a male pleasant to a female.
Once again, and I apologise for it, I wish for a memory lapse of my own!
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Date: 2011-01-01 02:38 pm (UTC)I've been quite enjoying the Marples, despite thinking I didn't like them very much. I think I was too young to get all her sly humour and satire when I first read them. And you know me, satire will always win me over!
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Date: 2011-01-01 02:55 pm (UTC)Satire today is what tragedy once used to be, at least that was one of if not the first papers I wrote about the theatre.
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Date: 2011-01-01 06:16 pm (UTC)None of them are the standard rape-fantasy, though i must admit I've never read anything that was. Then again, i think the only published books I've read that were categorized as 'romance' are these ones and the original Tyler series, which is like 12 books and has a murder-mystery woven through the whole set.
Anyway, the series starts with The Sword, and the stand-alone is Shifting Plains.
If you would like a short description, i would be happy to write you one, though I do have a habit of giving minor spoilers in descriptions. I think i could do a paragraph or two on the 8-book series without giving any actual spoilers though.
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Date: 2011-01-01 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-01 06:29 pm (UTC)If you're just looking for a taste-test of her writing style, she writes Harry Potter fanfiction (mostly focused on Hermione/Snape) under the name of LadyoftheMasque - most of it is available at TPP LotM, though the massive epic For Someone Special is only available at her Yahoo! group or on The Restricted Section (i believe). She's got plenty of shorter pieces there.
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:54 pm (UTC)Happy New Year!
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Date: 2011-01-01 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-01 01:12 pm (UTC)Hangovers when you haven't been drinking are worse than when you have!
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Date: 2011-01-01 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-01 02:05 pm (UTC)I laughed like an comic book arch villain asylum escapee at "2007."
Yes, there might be something wrong with me, but that was some endearingly amusing shit.
*blinks in awkward silence*
*scoots quietly back out of comment area*
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Date: 2011-01-01 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-01 04:22 pm (UTC)(2007?)
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Date: 2011-01-02 11:56 am (UTC)The grandest of years to you Brammers I hope 2011 treats you brilliantly :)
Oh and Adelaide's not to flash either roastingly dry and 39 yesterday!
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Date: 2011-01-02 11:22 pm (UTC)