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Nov. 15th, 2011 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timerippleLook, a second post in as many weeks! Admittedly it is not very substantive, but that is because I have been busy doing things and not writing about them and also being exhausted by my job. Er. My life is a SOCIAL WHIRL, I tell you!
The weekend before last I acquired an![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
a4yroldfaerie for a day, and she made me watch much hilarious and interesting television of the Vampire Diaries and Revenge variety, and we ate crepes and mac'n'cheese and went through all my free books. Then last weekend mousapelli visited our fair shores (or rather, crashed upon them, the fair shores being my floor) and I made her read a Roman steampunk oracle machine story and we watched a ton of Big Time Rush and listened to music and giggled a lot.
I have also gotten some reading done! THE FOLDED WORLD byyuki_onna was everything I hoped and expected it would be. Also recently finished: STEAMPUNK!, a short story collection edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. Sometimes automatons (automata?) are just automatons (a?), but sometimes they are not! Also, "dirigible" is my second favorite new word. I am now halfway through an advance copy of TEAM HUMAN, the collaboration between sarahtales and Justine Larbalestier. I really need to make a separate post about Phillip Reeve's FEVER CRUMB and sequel, A WEB OF AIR, because I have many things to say about them, not least about the awesomely awkward teen engineer heroine. Namely: "awesomely awkward teen engineer heroine" are words that need to appear together more often!
My very favorite new word is one I found in a biography of Charlotte Mary Yonge, and it is "squarson". As far as I can tell this is a portmanteau of "squire" + "parson", as in, "The Yonges themselves produced squarsons." You guys. SQUARSONS! ;alskdjfl;ajdfaslkjfa;lkjfdsa;kldf Oh you wacky Victorians. ♥
The weekend before last I acquired an
a4yroldfaerie for a day, and she made me watch much hilarious and interesting television of the Vampire Diaries and Revenge variety, and we ate crepes and mac'n'cheese and went through all my free books. Then last weekend mousapelli visited our fair shores (or rather, crashed upon them, the fair shores being my floor) and I made her read a Roman steampunk oracle machine story and we watched a ton of Big Time Rush and listened to music and giggled a lot. I have also gotten some reading done! THE FOLDED WORLD by
yuki_onna was everything I hoped and expected it would be. Also recently finished: STEAMPUNK!, a short story collection edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. Sometimes automatons (automata?) are just automatons (a?), but sometimes they are not! Also, "dirigible" is my second favorite new word. I am now halfway through an advance copy of TEAM HUMAN, the collaboration between sarahtales and Justine Larbalestier. I really need to make a separate post about Phillip Reeve's FEVER CRUMB and sequel, A WEB OF AIR, because I have many things to say about them, not least about the awesomely awkward teen engineer heroine. Namely: "awesomely awkward teen engineer heroine" are words that need to appear together more often!My very favorite new word is one I found in a biography of Charlotte Mary Yonge, and it is "squarson". As far as I can tell this is a portmanteau of "squire" + "parson", as in, "The Yonges themselves produced squarsons." You guys. SQUARSONS! ;alskdjfl;ajdfaslkjfa;lkjfdsa;kldf Oh you wacky Victorians. ♥
