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[louiselux]

daegaer wrote me tooth fic cos she is wondrous! Sugar and Spite - Saiyuki, Hakkai/Gojyo.

*will not make jokes about tooth fairies*

If anyone else wants to be wondrous, do feel free. :D

In other news, I ditched the original fic I was writing and began again from scratch, and this time it feels much more like something I actually want to write, and there are boats and mysterious ferrymen and sex. Now I have 17 days.

I finished Anasi Boys. I was vaguely let down by the end two chapters and I'm not sure why - in parts they seemed a bit slow. But in the main I loved the light tone that ran through it. It looks easy to do, but I think is very hard to get right. My new bid to read more is going well. I've begun Misfortune, by Wesley Stace, the touching and demented tale of a boy brought up as a girl in the 18thC. The prose is very dense and vivid and I can see this is going to take me a while to get through.

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[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

Now I have 17 days.

Till what? Is it for a contest?

I was vaguely let down by the end two chapters and I'm not sure why

So would you recommend the book overall, or not? I remember feeling very let down by the end of Captain Corelli's Mandolin to the point where I wanted to throw the book across the room! I wonder if that was the reaction Louis De Bernieres was expecting from his readers? Lol!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I would highly recommmend it! It didn't at all make me want to throw it across the room, it just seemed a little slow towards the end. But generally it's got some really great stuff in it.

The 17 days refers to a deadline I set myself - to finish an original story in time to submit it to Iris Print by the 30 June, for a boy's love anthology.

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

to finish an original story in time to submit it to Iris Print by the 30 June

Ooh, good luck! Boatmen and sex, sounds wet and slippery... I'd love to read it when you have finished. Hmm, could have phrased that better, now I sound like a complete hentai ^^; lol!

Hullo!

[(Anonymous)]

I saw this entry and decided to check out Misfortune at the library today.
I just finished it, and I LOVED it!
Here's a book you might be interested in, Wolf Moon by Charles De Lint.
Byebye! Have fun reading!
Natalie