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Apr. 3rd, 2011 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* One of the many reasons I am so taken with Souless: "Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted things, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table."
It happens to also have a well designed alternative Victorian London, a complex way of dealing with period prejudices, and a strong minded intelligent female lead who chaffs against societal expectations of womanhood much the way my own Great Grand mother and Great great grandmother did, though they expressed it in different ways from the heroine of this piece and each other. The narrative voice it absolutely charming, though the writing in the second half is not quite as tight as in the first half generally. It's a very strong first novel.
* neo_prodigy found: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lis1vzVD1n1qz8ekjo1_500.jpg
Word.
* Little known fact about me; I don't like modern carrots. You know, the bright orange ones. I will eat them if they are in my food, and I don't hate them the way I hate mayonnaise. (Ick). It's just, if given the choice, I avoid them. Oddly enough, I do like heirloom carrots. The more delicate taste appeals to me, and blends better with other food. I know they are not very pretty, but it always pleases me to come upon them so I can take them home for inclusion in soup or salad.
I found one the other day and the resulting soup is making me happy.
* Snapshot of trans life: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/4303961964/fuckyeahkatebornstein-stfukyriarchy
* "8,000-year-old remains of early Anatolians discovered in Istanbul:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=the-oldest-people-of-anatolia-were-discovered-2011-03-28
* Dog Catacombs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342086/ns/technology_and_science-science/
* A thing on DNA studies suggesting migration out of northern India and some interbreeding with Neanderthals: http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/764364/ht/Europe-was-populated-by-Kashmiris-around-40000-years-ago-Study
* I totally misread a headline about lead codices as being about codpieces. The article in my head was infinitely more fascinating.
* On Horace's favorite wine: http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/44663
* Famous Science hoaxes: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/april-fools-day-hoaxes/?now=2011-03-31-00:01
* "Sweet Trading: Chocolate May Have Linked Prehistoric Civilizations:" http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110401/sc_livescience/sweettradingchocolatemayhavelinkedprehistoriccivilizations
* "Triangle Fire: Clinging to Scraps of Memories:" http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/triangle-fire-clinging-to-scraps-of-memories/
Seeing their faces is incredibly moving.
* The clutch:
It happens to also have a well designed alternative Victorian London, a complex way of dealing with period prejudices, and a strong minded intelligent female lead who chaffs against societal expectations of womanhood much the way my own Great Grand mother and Great great grandmother did, though they expressed it in different ways from the heroine of this piece and each other. The narrative voice it absolutely charming, though the writing in the second half is not quite as tight as in the first half generally. It's a very strong first novel.
* neo_prodigy found: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lis1vzVD1n1qz8ekjo1_500.jpg
Word.
* Little known fact about me; I don't like modern carrots. You know, the bright orange ones. I will eat them if they are in my food, and I don't hate them the way I hate mayonnaise. (Ick). It's just, if given the choice, I avoid them. Oddly enough, I do like heirloom carrots. The more delicate taste appeals to me, and blends better with other food. I know they are not very pretty, but it always pleases me to come upon them so I can take them home for inclusion in soup or salad.
I found one the other day and the resulting soup is making me happy.
* Snapshot of trans life: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/4303961964/fuckyeahkatebornstein-stfukyriarchy
* "8,000-year-old remains of early Anatolians discovered in Istanbul:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=the-oldest-people-of-anatolia-were-discovered-2011-03-28
* Dog Catacombs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42342086/ns/technology_and_science-science/
* A thing on DNA studies suggesting migration out of northern India and some interbreeding with Neanderthals: http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/764364/ht/Europe-was-populated-by-Kashmiris-around-40000-years-ago-Study
* I totally misread a headline about lead codices as being about codpieces. The article in my head was infinitely more fascinating.
* On Horace's favorite wine: http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/44663
* Famous Science hoaxes: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/april-fools-day-hoaxes/?now=2011-03-31-00:01
* "Sweet Trading: Chocolate May Have Linked Prehistoric Civilizations:" http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110401/sc_livescience/sweettradingchocolatemayhavelinkedprehistoriccivilizations
* "Triangle Fire: Clinging to Scraps of Memories:" http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/triangle-fire-clinging-to-scraps-of-memories/
Seeing their faces is incredibly moving.
* The clutch: