morning update
Sep. 11th, 2004 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerStill a bit feverish and with some neck cramps, but otherwise I'm going much better (the cats could tell I was feeling better and woke me up at 7.30 as usual so I coukld get them breakfast).
Finished reading Daughter of the Forest this morning. It's quite good, I thought. Solid storytelling, evocative descriptions, characters that seem like real people not just cardboard figures, mystery and magic, and a compelling love story (and, yes, I'm always a sucker for a good love story).
Finished reading Daughter of the Forest this morning. It's quite good, I thought. Solid storytelling, evocative descriptions, characters that seem like real people not just cardboard figures, mystery and magic, and a compelling love story (and, yes, I'm always a sucker for a good love story).
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Date: 2004-09-11 01:33 pm (UTC)I've never heard of Juliet Marillier (I just Googled the book title) so I think I want to try this trilogy.
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Date: 2004-09-11 01:46 pm (UTC)I didn't think much of flu shots until we lived with Steve & Liz; Steve, being USAF, *had* to have a flu shot, and was the only one of us who didn't get sick that winter. So I often get tehm now. Only of course this I got before they'd even come out with any! :-)
I thought I might also feel a bit better if I had clean sheets and a shower. Changing the sheets was surprisingly hard work, but the shower felt good.
I've never heard of Juliet Marillier (I just Googled the book title) so I think I want to try this trilogy.
You're welcome to borrow the first one from me now I'm done. I'm certainly going to get the others. And she's written another trilogy, set in the Orkneys, which I love thanks to Dorothy Dunnett and "Oliver's Travels".
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Date: 2004-09-11 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 07:40 pm (UTC)"King Hereafter" I presume?
I'm told it only just escaped being published as non-fiction.
It's on my list for re-reading, once I get through the ever-growing list of not-yet-read. :-)
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:02 pm (UTC)Yep! It took me two tries before I was able to get into it, but it's one of my favourites.
I'm told it only just escaped being published as non-fiction.
It's cited in at least one history of the Orkneys I've read. :-)
Her sailing detective novels are what made me want to sail the west coast of Scotland, though. One of these days...
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:49 pm (UTC)??
I've never heard of those.
Are we speaking of the same author?
::confused::
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Date: 2004-09-12 12:13 am (UTC)Yes, she wrote them--often off the research she'd done for her more historical books--as a sort of holiday, and to allow her love of sailing and painting to figure a little more closely than they end up doing in her more serious work.
In the US, they all have "Dolly and the xxx Bird" titles, Dolly being the name of a certain gaff-rigged ketch that figures in every story, and the xxx representing the line of work pursued by the young woman who acts as the protagonist in that novel. In the UK editions, they're called:
Tropical Issue
Rum Affair
Ibiza Surprise
Operation Nassau
Roman Nights
Split Code
Morrocan Traffic
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Date: 2004-09-12 02:19 am (UTC)In some ways you two are so much alike it's frightening!
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Date: 2004-09-11 05:32 pm (UTC)Anybody who knows you could guess that! You are the original Hopeless RomanticTM!
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Date: 2004-09-11 05:44 pm (UTC)