I've never read any Austen at all. Or Brontë

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That'd be cool. Pretty soon I'll have to swing by your way and bring you boxes of baby clothes along with the old Balogh Regencies you loaned me, anyway.

Keen. I've got some other Regencys in the library here you might be interested in when you've got time, too. Just name the author and I can see if I've got it in stock.

Anyone want to google me the perfect hairstyle. I've been looking forever, am having no luck, and am feeling defeated.

Me? 37, looks it most days. Darkish brown hair. A decent amount of it, but it's both fine and wavy. I don't like my ears showing. I don't like my forehead showing, but I don't like long hair hanging in my eyes, either. My hair is happy with layers, but it's not a requirement, either. I need something easy to maintain. I don't want it too too short, because although I have an oval shaped face, it's a fuller oval.

I want the hair fairy to come fix me in my sleep, I think.

I took a course on the Brontes...I'm still impressed by their lack of competitiveness.

It's a skill, being able to picture clothing on someone who isn't there. I'm notsogood at picking out proper clothing from hangers myself.

A lot of the best deals I've gotten on stuff from work has been clothes that just look weird on the rack. I can generally tell in 5 minutes whether or not it will look good on me using a list of 3 things - material (can't be thick or too structured or crisp), cut of neckline and waist (must cut in at waist, neither higher or lower and some cleavage must show, v-neck is better than scoop, though scoop is good with a drape), and color (nothing with cool orange tones or cool yellow tones, blues and greens are wonderful). Those are for me, but I can apply those three things to pretty much anybody- with different requirements for each.

Fucking hell. So sorry, Calli. And I think we're thinking of the same one. Now I'm tempted to call my mother and have her tell me the name of the novel (she's the one who owned it).

Hecubus, go to Boston, huh? You're being paged. Not that you're a fairy, babe.

Anyone want to google me the perfect hairstyle. I've been looking forever, am having no luck, and am feeling defeated.

See, that's when you start asking locals who's the BEST hairstylist in town, and then going in and requesting a cut that suits you.

Susan, I hope your travel is easy-peasy. And early happy birthday wishes!

My Regency heresy is that I'm fairly "meh" about Heyer.

I just picked up one of her books to take with me on vacation at the beginning of the month but I never got around to reading it. Austen is my if I can only take one author to the desert island pick. I was pleased to find out recently that my older brother, having finished all the Patrick O'Brian books, has started to read Austen for the first time. I'm so excited for him! Now maybe I'll have to try out this O'Brian character.