genre-busting

This is Laura’s fault. Favorite series, by genre. I’m trying to keep it down to 3 series per, or I’ll be here all year. Note, however, that I cleverly separated out SF and fantasy, allowing me to include both The Coldfire Trilogy and the Fionavar Tapestry as #1 without compromising myself. :) My criteria here are not necessarily that these are the *best* series I’ve read, but rather that they’re my favorites. These are the ones that I have re-read and will re-read over and over again. Comfort food, rather…

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jelly, not writing

I haven’t written. I did make grape jelly, but I’m almost certain it’s not going to turn out. I think I put too much liquid in, ’cause I misunderstood the instructions. Well, we’ll see. My hair has reached this length that I didn’t know existed. It is a length of ‘Ok, I would like to braid this back out of the way now please’. I don’t remember ever having hair which I had the impulse to braid before, so this is clearly a new and different length for me. (I’m…

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mandarin painting and other good stuff :)

Got my act together this morning and sent Ursula some more money toward the Mandarin painting (if any of you were trying *desperately* to figure out how you could spend some money on me, you could send Ursula some money toward the painting; that’d be splendid :)), and it’s a good thing I managed to do /that/, at least, ’cause I utterly failed to get up and write this morning. But I did get about three and a half chapters rewritten this weekend, and cut a chapter entirely, so now…

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