Pimpage

[odycee]

I sat and read an entire book this weekend which I haven't done for a while (since HBP came out actually). Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner - a melodrama of manners, as it's described on the cover. It was written in the late 80's and it's a fantasy/romance. The two main characters, Richard and Alec, are thoroughly amoral, messed up and not very nice people but I couldn't help but love them and I just couldn't put it down. Good stuff. The only little niggle I had is that the POV sometimes annoyingly shifts mid scene, but I got over it.

niannah wrote a lovely and bittersweet Sirius/Remus snippet for scarvesnhats (which I'm not reading nearly enough of) - All This Time. Ooooh - and another one from scarvesnhats which I really liked this week was Seven Years of Blanket Abuse, Marauder-Style by shaggydogstail. Very cute!

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[niennah.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the pimp! And I'm going to have to read that other one. It sounds intriguing. I couldn't read a thing all weekend. (I am going to have such fun come November when I can go back at my leisure and read so much scarvesnhats that I couldn't read at work. Yes, that's anything above PG.)

A melodrama of manners? That sounds great!

[odycee.livejournal.com]

It's a lovely story - and not above PG so you can read it at work. ;)

It's a great book - full of intrigue, murder and nasty people who you can't help love. And it's refreshing to read a fantasy book where there is no stigma to homosexuality, everyone accepts it as normal. The characters just don't leave you alone after you've finished it.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

I think I might have to read that book. The Amazon descriptions sound cool. I shall go to the bookshop at lunchtime. :)

Yay PG! lol

[fourleftxaviers.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec. I'm all over that action.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service!