Miscellany including LAS and Jerome Buckley and more Happiness

1. I thought that as I finish reading (or re-reading in many cases) a book on my reading list, I'd post about it briefly as a way to track my progress and to invite conversation. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and The Victorian Temper by Jerome Buckley down. Please dear gods don't let them ask me a question about Buckley. I pretty much despise Victorian poetry anyway; I adore the novels and the drama and even the prose for the most part, but the poetry makes me want to spork myself in the eye. Couple that hatred with the fact that Buckley wrote the book in 1951 and it's all homophobic and seriously Old School Academy and he just drops names, LAST NAMES!, of people without saying who they are in the text or the footnote and sometimes they're poets and sometimes they're historical figures and sometimes they're royalty. *tears out hair* Lady Audley's Secret is awesome, though. I cry every damn time I read it, just at the part I have move Xander in Shadowlands. How's that for an endorsement? Spander loves it.

2. I am teaching in a learning community (linked class situation) in the fall and the World Civ prof I'm teaching with usually has her students read a historical fiction novel and write a book review. She's looking to change up but having trouble finding a suitable book. It can cover any period from ancient Mesopotamia to the Renaissance and pretty much any culture since it's World Civ. Restrictions: not too long (250ish pages), historically accurate in the general if not the particular, and no graphic sex. Any recommendations?

3. lyrstzha is going to Writercon! executrix (who should be receiving a package soon) is right: more lyr=better event. lyrstzha, one of these days I will answer your email telling me that you're coming. Probably the same day that I finally return crazydiamondsue's phone call.

4. Eve K. Sedgwick is dead. The world is down one more incredibly intelligent person. I think somebody needs to start a conduit fic fest in memoriam. *bats eyelashes* It could even be a drabble fest. Somebody who's BNFy and not me (so that people participate LOL), PLEASE DO THIS!!!

5. I won an award for my Dr. Horrible fic! Yay!

6. Fur in My Cap by Rob Roy. Watch it. Very cool music video.

7. So. Dreamwidth. I am still ambivalent because I bought a permanent lj account and I'm comfortable here but everybody's getting an account over there (granted I have a really small flist so my value of everybody is quite different from other people's *g*) and I guess maybe I ought to anticipate the mass migration. Are the invite codes for free accounts? If they're for free accounts, I'll take one if anybody has a spare.

8. Off to spend the last little bit of my allotted, scheduled, *sob*, regimented Livejournal time making Rodney cry.