Gmail, give me back the old layout

[lyssie]

1. Gmail, why is your new layout so ugly?

2. I picked up Mercedes Lackey's 'The Lark and the Wren', and read it all in one go. I deeply suspect that it is AU Menolly/Robinton fanfiction. It is also a book that seems to meander along until someone (an editor) suddenly told the author that it needed, y'know, a firm ending. Which is then rushed and sort of hackneyed and eye-roll-inducing.

3. The Daughters of Mannerling did not end with Mannerling being burnt to the ground, sadly. No, instead, one of the new children born to a Daughter of M. fell in love with the house and wants to hug it and squeeze it and call it George. Still creepy.

4. The Midwife by Jennifer Worth is remarkably like watching the TV show (Call the Midwife), though the show at least doesn't appear to rave on about how marvelous Cockneys are for living in filth, and how happy they are to be destitute. Srsly, Ms. Worth, no. Most of the happenings in the book don't occur in the show, though they take bits and pieces of some of them and work them together in ways that do work well.

5. Updated booklist.

The Folly by Marion Chesney
The Romance by Marion Chesney
The Homecoming by Marion Chesney
Coming Home for Christmas by Carla Kelly (to be truthful, only read the first and second novella, as the third was too much to take)
Mrs Budley Falls From Grace by Marion Chesney
Sir Philip's Folly by Marion Chesney
Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue by Marion Chesney
Back in Society by Marion Chesney
Rake's Progress by Marion Chesney
Bardic Voices: The Lark and the Wren by Mercedes Lackey
The Midwife by Jennifer Worth
The Adventuress by Marion Chesney

Comments

[amaresu]

I haven't read the Lark and the Wren in ages. I remember there's a number of books set in the same world, but they're all stand alones. At one point in time it used to make me sad that there weren't more books in that universe.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

I got mostly the old GMail look by going to the gear to the right, and picking 'compact'. But I'm kinda guessing what you want to burn with fire, so, your mileage may vary. ;)