I feel like I've been absent from teh intarwebs lately, but I LIVE. I'm sure you were all relieved for the ceasing of spam. However, a few things of note have happened/amazing things been discovered...
1) I got sick. I am now suffering the first cold of the year. I hate these things. They always hit me harder than they should.
2) The amazing![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dame_grise introduced me to the wonderful world of "Le Chevalier D'Eon," the best fantasy/twisted historical/anime EVER. A trailer is here and the first episode (the first 8 in English, the rest in subtitled Japanese) here. After the first one, it's basically just follow the links to the rest. I am so addicted and DAMN do I have ships for it. So writing fic. My favorite characters are Maximilien Robespierre and Durand. Watch for them. At any rate, that's been one of the things that's been swallowing me. Also, teh pretty. And the story's absorbing as well...only thing is violence, there's quite a bit of swashbuckling, which I don't mind but I know some do.
3) After finally setting down the first omnibus of the Chronicles of the Cheysuli (I just couldn't get through it! Sorry. I will try again, though) books have come back into the picture full force. Most recently, two of them: Madhouse by Rob Thurman and a series, by Carol Berg (who wrote another trilogy I enjoyed. A lot).
This has been Lise, reporting from the West Coast of Nowhere. See you next time.
I amuse myself, at least.
Oh, and icons! A few.
Have fun.Icons of Le Chevalier especially Maximilien coming soon.
Don't look at me! XD
1) I got sick. I am now suffering the first cold of the year. I hate these things. They always hit me harder than they should.
2) The amazing
dame_grise introduced me to the wonderful world of "Le Chevalier D'Eon," the best fantasy/twisted historical/anime EVER. A trailer is here and the first episode (the first 8 in English, the rest in subtitled Japanese) here. After the first one, it's basically just follow the links to the rest. I am so addicted and DAMN do I have ships for it. So writing fic. 3) After finally setting down the first omnibus of the Chronicles of the Cheysuli (I just couldn't get through it! Sorry. I will try again, though) books have come back into the picture full force. Most recently, two of them: Madhouse by Rob Thurman and a series, by Carol Berg (who wrote another trilogy I enjoyed. A lot).
First of all, I have an extremely soft spot for well written supernatural urban fantasy, and I love love love Rob Thurman's voice. I didn't like this one as much as the other two, but I still devoured it in less than a day and kept pulling it out to read at inopportune moments (like in the middle of a math test. Go me.) And I love Caliban.
And then there's Carol Berg. I think I can officially add her to my favorite authors list, because I have now read seven of her books and in my opinion, any author who, with every single book can make me feel at the end of it like I've been chewed up, swallowed, and spit back out is definitely up there. The four book series of Son of Avonar, Guardians of the Keep, The Soul Weaver and Daughter of Ancients was no exception to the rule. I liked the first one least of the four, though I enjoyed it while reading it, because the character who grows to be the main focus of the series was very fun to read and flawed. That was cool.
I now plunge back into China Miéville's bizarre universe with The Scar, to be followed with The Iron Council and his short story collection Looking for Jake. I look forward to it.
I will finish my bookshelf! Also, heading to Chicago for spring break, so I should have ample opportunity to read...that's what I do on family trips, after all. Stay up late and read. XD
And then there's Carol Berg. I think I can officially add her to my favorite authors list, because I have now read seven of her books and in my opinion, any author who, with every single book can make me feel at the end of it like I've been chewed up, swallowed, and spit back out is definitely up there. The four book series of Son of Avonar, Guardians of the Keep, The Soul Weaver and Daughter of Ancients was no exception to the rule. I liked the first one least of the four, though I enjoyed it while reading it, because the character who grows to be the main focus of the series was very fun to read and flawed. That was cool.
I now plunge back into China Miéville's bizarre universe with The Scar, to be followed with The Iron Council and his short story collection Looking for Jake. I look forward to it.
I will finish my bookshelf! Also, heading to Chicago for spring break, so I should have ample opportunity to read...that's what I do on family trips, after all. Stay up late and read. XD
This has been Lise, reporting from the West Coast of Nowhere. See you next time.
I amuse myself, at least.
Oh, and icons! A few.
Have fun.
Don't look at me! XD
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That reminds me though. I still have to finish your birthday present.
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:/ Beh. I will send you a postcard, at least. From Chicago.
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