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[splix]

You can find a bunch of free F.Scott Fitzgerald on Amazon, but none of the Hemingway is free. WTH?

I'm a little vexed. But I did pick up a bunch of classics for free: Frankenstein, Emma, Persuasion, Little Women, some H.G. Wells, a cookery book for the working classes [that was the title!] and a bunch of etiquette books from the Victorian era and I think the teens and the Thirties as well. I'm a nostalgist, and happily admit it.

Oh, and am eager to catch up on all the Fitzgerald I got. I read Flappers and Philosophers and it is a corker. Fabulous. I'm saving The Beautiful and the Damned for chemo day, but I'm going to suck up the rest ASAP. And reread Zelda while I'm at it.

I'm also reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King and it sucked me in immediately. I'm not writing, partly because I'm reading so much. I have the whole next chapter of my Sherlock fic blocked out, I just need to get on that. It's not like I don't have time.

Also gorging myself with Hiddles and Cumberbatch on tumblr. Those beautiful, beautiful men. Sigh. I think I need to write another crossover with them, or go back to Jamie and Jim. Ian is all very well and sexy and all, but for me John will always be Sherlock's true love, and romantic as I am, I can't break up that pairing permanently.

/sappy and soggy as a syrup-soaked short stack

/dorky alliteration

I think I need to go to bed.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

JAMIE AND JIM!!!!!

...ahem. Got carried away a little here. What I meant is, SOUNDS YUMMY.

[splix.livejournal.com]

I would love to return to them at some point. I had a Christmas fic all outlined, but I got sick and never wrote it. I was thinking of a prequel, pre-slash but a little bit of muted romance.

[evila-elf.livejournal.com]

I LOVED that S. King book! I had to track down the eBook because it was too heavy to read in bed. I hadn't read much King before, but I am looking forward to digging into some of his other books! If only other books will stop following me home from the library!

Jamie and Jim! *whimper*

[splix.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. It was so compelling I read the whole thing in two days. If you're interested in more, I recommend The Stand [one of my desert island books] and Salem's Lot and The Talisman. He's written other good stuff, but those are some of my favorites.

Yes, I miss them! Silly boys....

[inyadreems.livejournal.com]

I have to say I love Jamie/Jim. I do hope you go back to them at some point. But enjoy your reading in the meantime.

Btw I thought of you, I bought a gorgeous new perfume: Frankincense (http://www.nealsyardremedies.com/eau-de-parfum-no1-frankincense) from Neal's Yard. I smell like church. I remember you said you loved a fragrance which had that scent. I think this might be similar.

[splix.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! I miss them a lot. But the reading is fun.

Ooh, that sounds lovely. I'm going to have to keep an eye out. We have a pharmacy that specializes in difficult-to-find perfumes and that one sounds like it has interesting notes in it. I have Avignon by Commes des Garcons, and yep, that totally smells like church. :D