RL update

[briarwood]

I haven't made a post about my actual life for a while.

I guess I do that from time to time; just drift away from talking about...well, anything that's not on a screen :-) What can I say, I'm a TV addict.

I finally got my hair cut - I got the mullet I was talking about weeks ago and it feels so much better! When I came home after the haircut Mum told me I looked gay. So I guess that means I got the right look, huh? (For those who don't know, I'm not out at home.) I just laughed at her.

Sis and the boyfriend got back today from two weeks in Rhodes. Two weeks of bliss - for me. No having to clean out the sink before I can wash in the mornings. No one turning on the shower just as I'm about to fall asleep. No battles over the use of the kitchen. Me and mum got along great...even though I have queer hair ;-)

I made the mistake of browsing through Curry's while Mum was in Tesco and now I desperately want a Blu-ray DVD player and I have a wishlist a mile long of movies I want in that format. I absolutely must not buy the player until I've finished paying for my HD TV, which will be November. Then I'll have to pay for Christmas before I can budget for that. But, man, those movies look good in high def!

I didn't see a movie this weekend, as I'm going to see WALL-E on Tuesday with friends from work, and if nothing goes wrong I'm going to see Dark Knight on Thursday evening.

I've been reading Anne Bishop's Tangled Webs; is it me or is this story much more graphic than the earlier novels in the series? I have no problem with graphic, but I hope she's not going to turn into another Laurel K Hamilton. I really love her characters and the stories were always erotic; she doesn't need sex to sell them.

And...I guess that's it, unless you want a blow-by-blow account of me playing with the dogs :-)

Comments

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Tell me more about Anne Bishop? I'm always looking for new goodies. :D

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

Um. Okay. I've only read the Black Jewels novels - I did post about the trilogy before. It's fantasy, and very dark. It's sort of based around the notion of three interacting realms, a bit like the Faerie-Earth-Underworld of Celtic mythology, but it's not Celtic in flavour. It's a dark world dominated by a group of powerful women who keep men as sex slaves and so on...and it's not as porny as that sounds - there's almost no graphic sex. The three main male characters are of a very long-lived race (like, millennia old) and they've been waiting for this prophesied Witch to be born who will have the ability to change the power balance, make the world better.

When she finally shows up, she's nothing like anyone expected. She's a child in the first novel, hugely powerful and very confused. Then later you learn about some awful things that have happened to her and her friends. And it's all bound up in this centuries-old family conflict between the men.

What I like about Anne's writing...well, what I like most, is she makes the reader figure stuff out. She doesn't spend a lot of time explaining things. There's a lot of depth in the relationships but you have to pay attention to get it all. And though she has LKH's weakness for beautiful, not-quite-human men, it doesn't come across as self-indulgence the way LKH's stuff does. I've seen some people refer to Jaenelle as a Mary Sue and I can see where that comes from, but I don't agree. She's super-powerful, yes, but she's not flawless or always-right.

Tangled Webs is more overtly political than the earlier trilogy, because it's about the relationship between the Blood (the aristocracy, who have magic) and the Landen (non-magic people) which wasn't really touched on before. It's also more overtly sexual. I'm not sure if it's because Jaenelle is an adult now or if it's all the relationships that are different in this book. Either way, I like it :-)

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Sounds refreshingly different, too. I've written her name down. When I'm done going through the huge stack I have now, I'm going to have to make sure to check her out.

[krazykipper.livejournal.com]

Is there pictures of the mullet hair?

But good for you, go with what's comfortable. And short hair, much less hassle than the long.

[morgan32.livejournal.com]

Is there pictures of the mullet hair?

Well...no. I guess if you really want to see it I can get someone to take a pic.

Yes, it's so much more comfortable. And I love the look, too :-)