kids, lol

You know, when I babysat constantly, or so it seemed to me, in high school, I had a preference for bad kids. The kids being bad equalled more entertainment and probably some luls later. My favourites were prone to physically attacking me with toy swords and such. Wrestling on the floor with a bunch of cheerful giggling limpets liable to play dirty by licking your legs - that's fun. Then they'd wear themselves out and cuddle on the couch watching Animal Planet. Their parents are divorced now - my coolest role models, too. Life sucks sometimes.

Anyway, though, Carmela is bad in a completely new, though just as hilarious, fashion. Yesterday she followed her visiting (second) cousin upstairs to her room, threw her out along with her dad, shut the door behind and sulked alone, yelling the occasional demand down the stairs, for a couple of hours!

the nonesuch; house of many ways; nation

Terry Pratchett's Nation is what the Golden Compass trilogy wants to be when it grows up.

DWJ's House of Many Ways was in some ways predictable, but bursting with drollness and unexpected charm. I think I prefer the slightly sunnier reality in the Howl/Castle in the Air universe to the sort of rainy-English-boarding-school flavoured one of the Chrestomanci, er, multiverse (not the writing, though, because there are several incredible standouts among the Chrestomanci chronicles). However, the Magid verse of Deep Secret/Sudden Wild Magic is still my favourite. I think that after years of preferring Archer's Goon and Eight Days of Luke, though, a second reading and plenty of time to digest it confirms The Merlin Conspiracy as my definite #1.

And in Georgette Heyer, the last one I bought was ( The Nonesuch. )

I always read books in descending order of how much I expect to enjoy them and review them in the opposite order.

two, sure, but three?

Wax and I keep laughing (and speculating) about how anyone could have three ex-wives, but we ignored one of the most obvious (though, okay, not one of the most LIKELY) explanations!

What if Gibbs doesn't believe in sex before marriage? Crackfic idea, free to good home.