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Apr. 23rd, 2012 05:41 pm1. 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.
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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.
( Read more... )
