behold, here's...

[cimorene]

now that my family are safe, i have no excuse (other than some transient pain, but i already took ketoprofen so i guess i don't have that excuse either) for my weird ennui. i think the problem was that i didn't finish what was supposed to be a very short piece of crackfic about band of princes before vacation, and even though i wrote a lot more of it while i was gone in spite of the disaster, i've lost some of my momentum for it. it's almost finished now, but it's also 9000 words, which means it's probably going to hit a thousand more before i manage to actually finish it.

another of my weird compulsions - like not writing more than one thing at once, for instance - is that i don't like to sidetrack myself in the middle of writing something by, say, watching anything that will claim my full attention, or reading anything that would do that. so even though i've started downloading the tenimyu and the prince of tennis manga, and we've got black powder war and throne of jade (and also my own copies of sorcery and cecelia and the grand tour ♥♥♥, which i finally got around to ordering), and my mom also finally found my copy of singin' in the rain... i haven't done much of anything in three days other than poke around after stray bits of tenipuri slash i may've missed and reread a georgette heyer mystery.

and, okay, yesterday i impulse-bought it - the only one in akademiska bokhandeln was they found him dead, but i can order the others from helsinki if i want to, and the fabulous thing is that a british publisher appears to be reissuing her mysteries in a set of very nice matching paperback editions! they have behold, here's poison too, and that's my favourite heyer mystery! ♥

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[bookshop.livejournal.com]

I love Georgette. ♥ Behold, Here's Poison is my favorite GH mystery too, though I haven't read all of the others, I don't think. I am still working on getting through the massive GH collection that earthquake1906 loaned me a few years back before she went to Australia.

I'm so glad your family is okay, Cim. I'm glad your Dad's situation didn't worsen--I was worried at first. And I think you're close enough to finishing the BoP fic that you don't need to worry too much about lost momentum. You'll finish it when you finish. ♥ I can't wait til you do, but for now it's just good to have you back.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i've read my mom's whole collection but most of them only once, for whatever reason. however, i think there are fewer than ten mysteries. nine? or eight? something like that. you might have read them all without realising it.

i am so glad to be back that i fantasised about kissing the ground when i arrived in finland. fortunately for my hygiene, it was a bit too chilly for that. i think at the moment my momentum is a bit slow because of niggling back pain and poor weather outside, but the end is more or less in sight (though i haven't written today). i can't be totally sanguine about finishing when i finish though, because i can never read manga or watch movies in peace until i do. :((