morning update

[winterbadger]

Still 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).

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[winterbadger]

Oh, golly! If you haven't read those, you're in for a treat (well, if you're like me, and I'm getting the impression you are in many ways :-)

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

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

(well, if you're like me, and I'm getting the impression you are in many ways :-)

In some ways you two are so much alike it's frightening!