I loves you, LJ

[geoviki]

LJ - The Squee Edition

Squee #1 - mayflo drew ATBT art for me! Four sketches of ATBT Draco, to be precise, and they are here! They're great, Hannah, and thank you so so so much! My little writer soul has longed for art for ATBT, and now I can die happy.

Squee #2 - I don't think I mentioned isiscolo's newest fic Players. She posted it from her lovely tropical get-away. Millicent/Luna. Isis always makes characters that I can firmly believe in, and her writing is superb.

Squee #3 - jamoche has written a three-part ficlet in ajhalluk's LoPiverse, here. It's a backstory to The Perilous Point.

Squee #4 - Totally self indulgent shopping trip to Barnes and Noble last night. I got two books I've been wanting, including Mary Renault's The Persian Boy. Oh man. Slash. Slash in a printed book. Beautiful boys in love. I stayed up too late last night getting into it. Yes, I skipped ahead to the good parts; why do you ask? No, I didn't. Nope. Un uh. Wasn't me. Now I want to write Bagoas slash. (The Theban Band has a new Bagoas desktop, BTW, plus a Ron/Harry kiss if you haven't seen it.) Finally, ohreally___ has posted new Boyd pix this week. Love the haircut, honey.

Squee #5 - And I bought 7 new CDs. Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Afro-Celt Sound System, Los Lonely Boys, acoustic Brazilian, and Bonnie Raitt's first one. Doin' my best for the economy...

Squee #6 - The rewriting goes well, my son's team just won its soccer game, and my daughter returns from building houses for the poor in Juarez, Mexico, today.

Comments

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Absolutement! Oh, I'm all about the gay kings now...

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Which email addy? Which format? Can you open zip compressed files? rar compressed files?

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

geoviki@msn.com

.html or .rtf, whichever

I can probably unzip a compressed file from zip; not too sure about rar.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

All sent! When you're finished with the Alexcander ones, you can start on the Athenian novels, they are to die for too!

I've dated them in the zip file; the Theseus ones are myth, so several hundred years before the others. I would advise you to read them chronologically, except that The Praise Singer, which is set in the 6th century BC, so before the other non-myth ones, is really one half of a novel to my mind; what there is is excellent, but I miss the second half of Simonides's life; it's as if she'd either given up or been ill midway. It's dated 1978, so it's her penultimate book (Funeral games, which is more historical than any of her fiction, is dated 1981 and she died in 1983); I don't know her personal history. The two gems are The Last of the Wine and The Mask of Apollo, which must be read in this order, because they are historically close; also, toward the end of The Mask of Apollo, you get so see one of the scenes from Fire From Heaven from a different point of view; it's wonderful. (There is also a lovely throwback detail to The Last of the Wine in the Alexander Trilogy; I'll let you find it; it is incredibly moving, over a span of four decades.) The Theseus duology you can read separately at any time.