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Oh cool, it's late morning for me and early evening for you, so we're online together! Those sharing time and food moments are so precious. It sounds like we're both making new memories this week. I know that feeling of shopping hangover.
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Oh yes, it's 8.00 p.m. here. :-) I just read your list on the (Five) Things I Love thread and I see what you mean about making new memories. What a lovely week you are having, dear.
I love reading about Johanna's and Karen's mother- daughter experiences. Adult daughters are a good thing. And in one week my daughter will come to Oslo, then it will be my turn:)
Anne wrote: "I love reading about Johanna's and Karen's mother- daughter experiences. Adult daughters are a good thing. And in one week my daughter will come to Oslo, then it will be my turn:)"Have you been knitting a sweater for her?
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Good times!
Susinok wrote: "K.Z. wrote: "How'd your weekend go, Susan?"Exhausting and awesome! I talked to so many really great people. Once I got over the deer in the headlights on Thursday, all was well.
Talked a lot wit..."
I saw some photos from the costume party. Especially loved Edmond Manning as Snow White, ROFLMAO!
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I'm thinking of taking my coffee outside and reading the last 11% of
(Catch a Ghost for those with apps), but kind of reluctant because I know it's going to leave a lot of things hanging and the second book (Long Time Gone) doesn't come out for a week... well, five days...
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That's wonderful, Anne. :-)
K.Z. wrote: "Susinok wrote: "K.Z. wrote: "How'd your weekend go, Susan?"Exhausting and awesome! I talked to so many really great people. Once I got over the deer in the headlights on Thursday, all was well.
..."
I didn't go to any of the parties, too worn out by that time of day to whoop it up. But I got to spend some time with him because of the Cockwalk, and he's perfectly lovely. And very funny. I'd heard good things about King Perry, but I'm much more excited about reading it now that I've met the author.
Antonella wrote: "Through the group ''Gay Muslims in Italy'' (http://www.ilgrandecolibri.com) I found a new gay comic in Spanish and English:http://gaysomecomic.blogspot.it"
Thank you for sharing! This is a really fun comic.
Hj wrote: "Anne wrote: "I love reading about Johanna's and Karen's mother- daughter experiences. Adult daughters are a good thing. And in one week my daughter will come to Oslo, then it will be my turn:)"Ha..."
I finished one and is working on another. She seems to have an unending demand for big woolly garments :)
Anne wrote: "And in one week my daughter will come to Oslo, then it will be ...
I finished one and is working on another. She seems to have an unending demand for big woolly garments :) "
That happens when you live in Scotland. (And Norway, I guess!)
Hj wrote: "That happens when you live in Scotland"I'm not so sure: my Scottish friends are always dressed very lightly in comparison to me.
Ginn wrote: "http://gaysomecomic.blogspot.it"Thank you for sharing! This is a really fun comic."
You are welcome.
I suppose you already know
http://adventuresingay.tumblr.com
He has got silent since a couple of months though...
Becky wrote: "I didn't go to any of the parties, too worn out by that time of day to whoop it up. But I got to spend some time with him because of the Cockwalk, and he's perfectly lovely. And very funny. I'd heard good things about King Perry, but I'm much more excited about reading it now that I've met the author. .."I have both King Perry and King Mai. Now that I've heard a bit of them at the reading, I'll read them sooner rather than later.
Antonella wrote: "Ginn wrote: "http://gaysomecomic.blogspot.it"Thank you for sharing! This is a really fun comic."
You are welcome.
I suppose you already know
http://adventuresingay.tumblr.com
He has got silent..."
Yes, that's often one of the frustrations of finding an online comic you love. It's common for the creators to take long breaks...uhm not that I can criticize anyone taking a while to get something out there! ;D
I've just got my hands on Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall, who wrote Glitterland. Very excited about this one. Except I also have Bad Idea and The Republic of Thieves waiting, not to mention all the preorders going to drop in through November. Gah, I have gone from total book slump to 'cannot make time in life for all the fantastic books'.
Becky wrote: "I was up until 3 last night reading The Magpie Lord."/cackles evilly/ My work here is done.
Recently finished
Looks Over by Rose Christo, #2 in her Gives Light m/m YA series. I thought Gives Light was lovely read, and Looks Over was a great continuation of Skylar's story and his life on a Shoshone Indian reservation. It's a quiet read, very slice-of-life, but still well done and very meaningful. Recommended especially for those who like YA (although best to start with Gives Light first.)
And am now in the middle of the post-WWI m/m historical
Bonds of Earth. So far, it's a very good read, very interesting with a slow build love story. (Also nicely handling MCs who struggle with PTSD.)Also, just picked up the m/m steampunk anthology Steamed Up. I'm not usually an anthology fan (unless they're like Irregulars), but I have a severe soft spot for steampunk, and this one has a story by the author who wrote the excellent fantasy freebie novella The Lodestar of Ys, so broke my avoidance rule. Here's hoping!
K.J. wrote: "I've just got my hands on Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall, who wrote Glitterland. Very excited about this one. Except I also have Bad Idea and The Republic of Thieves waiting, not to mention all the p..."KJ, I'd look forward to hearing your thoughts on Iron and Velvet. I have a few close friends who prefer f/f fiction, and so I having been eying that one as a possible xmas present for them. Please share what you think (when you do read it.) :)
ttg wrote: "Recently finished Looks Over by Rose Christo, #2 in her Gives Light m/m YA series. I thought Gives Light was lovely read, and Looks Over was a great continuation o..."
I have also just read Gives Light and Looks Over, very good books and such interesting new things to learn about Native Americans and their history. It is always fun to learn new stuff. There are apparently two more books, so I will have to continue now.
I am in the middle of Beyond the Blue Event Horizon which is number two in a series by Frederick Pohl. I read the first Gateway a couple of years ago and was very impressed and intrigued, but didn't realise it was a series until now, and both books also can be read as stand-alones. I have the fourth already so have to go look for the third, they are not published as e-books so have to look it up and get it shipped later. They are amazing! Not romance or m/m but very good science fiction indeed.
Hj wrote: "Anne wrote: "And in one week my daughter will come to Oslo, then it will be ...
I finished one and is working on another. She seems to have an unending demand for big woolly garments :) "
That ..."
Definitely in Norway, and also if you are a Norwegian and lives in the UK (she is in Cornwall now), but the Scots and the English, at least the young ones, go out in the winter nights practically naked as far as I have seen. I don't see how they survive it. You see the girls in close to freezing weather on a Friday night in miniskirts and a tank top and sandals, frozen blue, but not a warm sweather in sight :)
Sometimes I want to knit them all warm Norwegian sweathers...
K.J. wrote: "I've just got my hands on Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall, who wrote Glitterland. Very excited about this one. Except I also have Bad Idea and The Republic of Thieves waiting, not to mention all the p..."Let us know how Iron and Velvet goes. I am looking forward to that one.
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http://gaysomecomic.blogspot.it"
Thank you for sharing..."
Yes! Thank you, Antonella, for posting this! Very enjoyable! (And thank you, Ginn, for pointing it out, because otherwise I would have missed it for some reason...)
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Glad to know you are enjoying this so far. I'm interested to know how you liked it when you are finished. I've read through the blurb more than once, but never went as far as buying it. I like its black-and-white cover, by the way. :-)
K.J. wrote: "I've just got my hands on Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall, who wrote Glitterland. Very excited about this one. Except I also have Bad Idea and The Republic of Thieves waiting, not to mention all the p..."I'm so curious what you'll think of Iron & Velvet. I was really looking forward to it, but i've read some bad reviews already, i'm hoping that's just a matter of taste... So please update on that.
From last week's reads - LB Gregg's Dudleytown was soooo much fun!This week...
KJ Charles - The Caldwell Ghost
M Chandler - Shadow of the Templar#1, The Morning Star
and continuing the beautiful Lost Price by Harper Fox.
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K.J. wrote: "Becky wrote: "I was up until 3 last night reading The Magpie Lord."/cackles evilly/ My work here is done."
Well, it is until book 2 comes out. ;)
Lady*M wrote: "Eden Winters's Corruption."I've just read this series. Love. It.
Corruption is the third book in the series, and they should be read in order. If you haven't read them, I recommend them for when you need a mm detective type story. They are a little different from the norm. Good reads.
Juthi wrote: "Antonella wrote: "Bonds of Earth is really excellent."One of my favourite non-Josh m/m books!"
Yep. One of my fav historicals. It is a healing, character driven plot,set after WWI. When I think of this book, I think of "family", our chosen family. Very nice.
Reggie wrote: "Lady*M wrote: "Eden Winters's Corruption."I've just read this series. Love. It.
Corruption is the third book in the series, and they should be read in order. If you haven't read them, I recom..."
This is vhy Amazon is great, I checked it out, saw it was a series and went to the first book. Don't you believe I had already purchased it. Seems I have read it too :)
So now I bought no 2.
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This week...
KJ Charles - The Caldwell Ghost
M Chandler - Shadow of the Templar#1, The Morning Star
and continuing the beautiful ..."
I think Dudleytown is such a classic little spooky story. I can see it as a student film. :-D
I started Damon Suede's Bad Idea after listening to him do a reading. He's a GOOD reader, by the way.Fun story with a comic book artist and a make-up special effects guy.
A group of us at GRL were sitting at a table at the costume party pointing out x-men and other pop culture costumes. We laughed, because we realized the entire GROUP (us and the others at GRL) were geeky under it all.
Josh wrote: "KC wrote: "From last week's reads - LB Gregg's Dudleytown was soooo much fun!This week...
KJ Charles - The Caldwell Ghost
M Chandler - Shadow of the Templar#1, The Morning Star
and continuing the..."
I have read all of L.B. Gregg's books thatI have found, and like them all very much, and I adore Simple Gifts. Does anybody know if she has more in the works?
Anne wrote: "I have read all of L.B. Gregg's books thatI have found, and like them all very much, and I adore Simple Gifts. Does anybody know if she has more in the works? "She has a novella coming out on Nov 18 from Riptide, called "How i met your father":
http://riptidepublishing.com/titles/h...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
KC wrote: "Anne wrote: "I have read all of L.B. Gregg's books thatI have found, and like them all very much, and I adore Simple Gifts. Does anybody know if she has more in the works? "She has a novella comi..."
Great news! Thank you, KC
Anne wrote: "KC wrote: "Anne wrote: "I have read all of L.B. Gregg's books thatI have found, and like them all very much, and I adore Simple Gifts. Does anybody know if she has more in the works? "She has a n..."
:-) I love her stuff! There seem to be things "in the works" so hopefully soon. Every time she says something about writing (on FB), i ask about the next Romano & Albright... There will be one someday.
I actually bought a nice little stack of books at GRL but can't decide what I want to read yet... I know a lot of people were trying to buy favorite books to have the author sign a hard copy, but I went for stuff that's still on wishlists. Being able to get them signed was just a nice little bonus, but kind of beside the point for me (am I weird for that?)
Susinok wrote: "I started Damon Suede's Bad Idea after listening to him do a reading. He's a GOOD reader, by the way.Fun story with a comic book artist and a make-up special effects guy.
A group of us at GRL we..."
The readings were my favorite part. I downloaded a sample from at least one new-to-me author at every reading session I went to.
The overall geekiness was great. I had a brief, but fun, discussion with Katey Hawthorne about Tolkien's writing style. (Although it only takes a brief look at her twitter or the blurbs for her books to know that Katey is a geek!) And I sat knitting in the lobby with Rowan Speedwell for a while as we talked about our mutual love of Miles Vorkosigan. :D
Tracy wrote: "I actually bought a nice little stack of books at GRL but can't decide what I want to read yet... I know a lot of people were trying to buy favorite books to have the author sign a hard copy, but I..."I think it really depends on how you like to read your books. For people who aren't big on ereaders, events like GRL are fantastic shopping opportunities. The books are on sale, mostly for a good bit off the cover price, and no shipping!
Becky wrote: "Susinok wrote: "I started Damon Suede's Bad Idea after listening to him do a reading. He's a GOOD reader, by the way.Fun story with a comic book artist and a make-up special effects guy.
A group..."
I knew Ms Speedwell had to be a Miles fan! I have just read Illumination and there is some references to a sci- fi series that I was quite sure was the Vorkosigan books in disguise. This makes it even more plausible. A fun little geek fact ;)
KC wrote: ":-) I love her stuff! There seem to be things "in the works" so hopefully soon. Every time she says something about writing (on FB), i ask about the next Romano & Albright... There will be one someday. ..."Her stuff is fun. And ditto on the Romano and Albright!
Becky wrote: "The overall geekiness was great. I had a brief, but fun, discussion with Katey Hawthorne about Tolkien's writing style. (Although it only takes a brief look at her twitter or the blurbs for her books to know that Katey is a geek!) And I sat knitting in the lobby with Rowan Speedwell for a while as we talked about our mutual love of Miles Vorkosigan. :D p..."I talked with Rowan about SF conventions and the fact that I hadn't been to one since 1982. She is also in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and asked me what Kingdom I lived in. Yep. We're all geeks. I'll own up to that proudly. :)
I loved seeing all the books in print. They were beautiful with the larger size and colorful covers. However, I resisted any paper and bought digital from the GRL sales from the various publishers. I had the authors sign my GRL booklet, though I'd have been plenty content to just talk to everyone. I did a LOT of talking, once I got over my initial terror.
Becky wrote: "Tracy wrote: "I actually bought a nice little stack of books at GRL but can't decide what I want to read yet... I know a lot of people were trying to buy favorite books to have the author sign a ha..."I don't care either way as far as how I read -- it's just that I have so little money to actually spend on books that if I'm buying some, I'd prefer them to be something that I don't already own. There were a million and one other things you could get authors to sign. (And I heard a couple of people say that once they got the physical copy signed, they wouldn't read it so that it wouldn't get damaged. I don't know, that just seems wrong to me. I don't see the point in owning books that never get read -- except maybe a couple of really OLD books I have that might actually crumble to dust if they get touched.)
Anne wrote: "Becky wrote: "Susinok wrote: "I started Damon Suede's Bad Idea after listening to him do a reading. He's a GOOD reader, by the way.Fun story with a comic book artist and a make-up special effects..."
She said that she originally referenced the series directly, and that she didn't think an author who wrote a book about a whole gay planet (Ethan of Athos) would have a problem with the mention. But they eventually decided to play it safe and change it. Now it's a bit of a secret nod for those of us who know the books.
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I did enjoy it and I love my dear mother, but after six hours of shopping I feel like somebody hit me on the head with a sledgehammer. ;-)
We had a great time, though. We also had a delicious salad lunch together and divine carrot cake for dessert. One of my earliest memories of our trips to city center is of cafés and the pastry Mom and me had together at some point during the day. In the mid 70's we either had rum cake or lemon cake — always one or the other. Today made me think of those days. :-)