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Oct. 21st, 2007 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsFor a while now I have been dutifully reading through novels for class during the day, and then sneaking home to cheat on them with Hilary Mantel's A Place Of Greater Safety. I normally try to be faithful one book at a time, but . . . I'm sorry, other novels! It seduced me with its giant scope and catnip-like prose!
I have been going veeeery slowly through the book, for two reasons. One is the aforementioned need to do other readings for class; the other is that thing that happens when you're reading really good books, the fact that I didn't want it to be over. Both because then there would be No More and because when you're reading a novel about historical figures you know pretty much how it's going to end and I didn't want to reach that point. However, two days ago, the book came up overdue at the library, so I raced through the final two hundred pages yesterday, reread the final chapter this morning, and am now struggling with the need to return it to the library instead of reading it through all over again.
But back it must go, so instead, I will blithely ignore all the writing I am supposed to be doing for school-like things and throw out that drabble meme instead.
The first ten (or however many, really) people to comment on this post get to request a drabble from me. In return, you can post this meme in your journal and keep yourself busy for DAYS.
I do not promise speediness for ANYONE. But all drabbles will eventually get written! Fandoms include Heroes, Avatar, BSG, Milliways-related things, Wasteland-related things, Fionavar Tapestry, anything Diana Wynne Jones, and . . . probably a whole lot more I'm not thinking of; if you think that I know it, it's fair game. And there's never any harm in asking!
I have been going veeeery slowly through the book, for two reasons. One is the aforementioned need to do other readings for class; the other is that thing that happens when you're reading really good books, the fact that I didn't want it to be over. Both because then there would be No More and because when you're reading a novel about historical figures you know pretty much how it's going to end and I didn't want to reach that point. However, two days ago, the book came up overdue at the library, so I raced through the final two hundred pages yesterday, reread the final chapter this morning, and am now struggling with the need to return it to the library instead of reading it through all over again.
But back it must go, so instead, I will blithely ignore all the writing I am supposed to be doing for school-like things and throw out that drabble meme instead.
The first ten (or however many, really) people to comment on this post get to request a drabble from me. In return, you can post this meme in your journal and keep yourself busy for DAYS.
I do not promise speediness for ANYONE. But all drabbles will eventually get written! Fandoms include Heroes, Avatar, BSG, Milliways-related things, Wasteland-related things, Fionavar Tapestry, anything Diana Wynne Jones, and . . . probably a whole lot more I'm not thinking of; if you think that I know it, it's fair game. And there's never any harm in asking!
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Date: 2007-10-22 01:51 am (UTC)Ca ira?. . . oh, okay, yes. I will accept your praise. *dignified*
(I identify bizarrely with Gabrielle, and I am not sure why. But I want to hug her and give her a pet sympathetic llama or something.)
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Date: 2007-10-22 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-22 02:01 am (UTC)Now you have to watch the Gerard Depardieu Danton movie with the implicitly abused shrinking Louise Gély child. It's weird.
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Date: 2007-10-22 02:09 am (UTC)(I should have known Gerard Depardieu had played Danton at one point or another. Epic and facially unusual!)
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Date: 2007-10-22 02:17 am (UTC)