Also? Anyone ever read Martin Millar? I got Lonely Wereolf Girl out of the library on a whim the other day, ignored it, cause it didn't seem all that interesting, and then picked it up and read it last night. I QUITE liked it.

I recently read The Good Fairies of New York and absolutely loved it.

The sex is not always good: [link]

I often think, explicit sex is great if it fits into the story, but sometimes less explicit is sexier. Think of some of the lines of Sappho remembering how a lover was "folded in my arms" and the "familiar heat". Some of the most erotic lines in English language. and Sappho was perfectly willing to get very explicit indeed - she just knew when less was more.

Too much explicit sex turns into written choreography--it's always more fun to watch the dance.

I recently read The Good Fairies of New York and absolutely loved it.

I didn't love it as much as I expected to, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I mean, I did like it, but everything felt a little distant. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, or something.

standing next to fay. Liked it, just didn't love it.

I'm in the process of loading reading material onto my phone (lo, how far we have come...), and I was looking for some recommendations of texts that would be on gutenberg.org.

Ideas?

Captains Courageous, White Fang, Call of the Wild, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Dracula, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Up from Slavery, Sherlock Holmes and, of course, The Education of Henry Adams.

Well, that will occupy quite a few ER visits! Thanks.

They're all books I love.