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December 24, 2012
28 Days of Holiday Music: Harps of Gold
Merry Christmas! This seemed a fitting song for the day. The message being to look up, look onward, look for the coming light, and smile through the pain.
December 23, 2012
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 21: Christmas Moon
The album version of this is so fantastic. This live recording doesn’t do it the justice it deserves, though it is lovely, too.
Oh, I found the album version!
And this song, Home for the Holidays, has been my favorite holiday song this year. It just seems to hit the spot for me this season.
Reading: Acceleration by Amelia Gormley
Acceleration by Amelia C. Gormley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Well, I inhaled that book right down. Excellent! It gave me everything I wanted to see after the first novel in this series (and more). It resolved all of my issues with Derrick, gave me more insight into Gavin, and continued with the hot, character-driven, psychological sex scenes. There is pretty much nothing that would’ve made this book better–except possibly seeing some of Gavin’s POV, but I think Amelia did such a fantastic job really *showing* us Gavin this time that it wasn’t necessary.
I suppose if I didn’t know that there was a third book coming out soon, I might be frustrated about the lack of resolution with regards to their social circle, and the hockey team especially, but I’m content to see what Amelia brings to the table next time around.
If there was even a single ‘negative’ thing that comes to mind, I’d say that I truly feel like Inertia and Acceleration would’ve been more satisfying if read as one book. Inertia felt incomplete and Acceleration can’t stand without Inertia, imo, and so I almost feel like one larger book would’ve been a more satisfying read. Now that both books are out there, though, no one has to wait after finishing Inertia, they can just buy Acceleration lickety-split and have most of those loose ends tied up. Thus this is such a nit-pick that I can’t even count it as a negative at all, and neither should other readers. 
Amelia has a wonderful way with language, description, and bringing characters to life. I highly recommend this series to all romance readers.
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I might make a more detailed post later, but this was my initial, off-the-cuff reaction that I posted to Goodreads, and my first time copying & pasting the Goodreads “post to your blog” code. I wanted to see how that functioned.
December 22, 2012
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 20: Silver Bells
The 78 Project: Vandaveer – “Silver Bells” – Happy Holidays 2011 from The 78 Project on Vimeo.
They also sing to sick dogs.
December 21, 2012
December 20, 2012
28 Days of Holiday Music: Fanworks Friday: Winter Song Inspires
So many fanvids made to this song! They’re mostly multifandom, too, which is interesting!
Just the climax of the song vidded to a lot of various couples.
Everything from Harry Potter to Pride & Prejudice.
Chloe and Oliver from Smallville.
A very odd multifandom one that seems tailored to a particular fan’s favorite shows/movies. It was a little too choppy for me to watch due to flashing or quickly moving images triggering migraines, but what I watched seemed interesting if only for the mish-mash of contents. Enchanted, The Notebook, Beauty & the Beast, Anastasia, Peter Pan, Pride & Prejudice, things I don’t even know what they are, and so on.
Another multifandom vid.
The original:
December 19, 2012
December 18, 2012
28 Days of Holiday Music: Day 17: Wintersong by Sarah McLachlan
The person who made this vid chose absolutely perfect and beautiful images to go with this song.
28 Days of Holiday Music: Holly, Ivy and Rose
This is my daughter’s favorite Christmas song. She loves that the second voice belongs to Tori Amos’s daughter, Tash, who was only nine when it was recorded. I still don’t have much to say right now, but we’ll go on with this a bit.
