Erin! You read it all in one night! Wow.
I read it over about a month and a half. I really enjoyed it and want lots more. I kind of enjoyed taking it slow -- mostly because I didn't want it to end.
(I just re-read
Sorcery and Cecilia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot
- there is just something about magic and the Regency period, I guess.)
I meant to italicize not spoiler font that!
Erin! You read it all in one night! Wow.
It's my only superpower...but damn, the costume ain't sexy!
Adding to recs:
Pentimento
Lillian Hellman
t cameo post
Everyone needs to go out and buy
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
by Susan Gilman. It is wonderful and funny and I am in love with it.
Charlotte Macleod, a.k.a. Ailsa Craig, writer of "cozy" mysteries (death, yes; blood, no), died in a nursing home at the age of 82.
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I really quite liked these
Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn mysteries were about a couple from Boston's Beacon Hill area.
I am sad for her family, but it seems like she really enjoyed her writing and did get a nice long life.
I adored MacLeod's Peter Shandy mysteries. There's part of me that wishes I could have gone to Balaclava Agricultural College.
Huh. I had two waiters at a restaurant last night chat with me about a story that I don't remember from a Stephen King collection that I bought this year. Either it was completely unmemorable despite their enthusiasm, or "1408" freaked me out so much that I've blocked out the whole anthology. (In which case, gee thanks brain—the one story I do remember clearly is the creeptastic one.)
Kristin, I hadn't even heard of that book but saw it at Barnes and Noble yesterday and had to buy it. It looks great!
I'm trying to work out if something is a short story or anthology TV -- it was about an OCD guy (the religious sort that think the world will end if they don't do their thing (tap their ear seven times and turn clockwise when a dog barks, or whatever)) who is medicated and cured, except -- the world does start to fall apart. The doctor that cured him can't convince him to go back on his meds, and realises that he needs to become OCD to save the world.
Does this ring bells?