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recountings: no love triangle, me happy

April 5, 2017March 30, 2017 nesskingsley

My problem with YA is that I don't always connect with the characters. They don't act sensibly.

Tagged books, magic carpet ride, read, retellings, the rose and the daggar7 Comments
lemme tell you a story, ness rambles, ness talks about life

[Story Time] repercussions of daydreaming

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 nesskingsley

When you've spent half your life with your nose in a book and your head in the clouds, your sense of proportion, social settings, and - alas, to my cost - brain-to-mouth filter sometimes malfunction.

Tagged bit of a ramble, daydreaming, driving test, life, lions, zombie2 Comments
books misc, ness talks books

recountings: georgette heyer and how to run a drug cartel

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 nesskingsley

He is one of the luckiest journalists alive just to have survived his research.

Tagged biography, books, business studies, drugs, economics, Georgette Heyer, narconomics, reading, recountings, tom wainwrightLeave a comment
books misc, quotables

quotables: cloud of witness

March 15, 2017 nesskingsley

"No decent-minded person would know how to spell ipecacuanha out of his own head."

Tagged books, dorothy l sayers, lord peter wimsey, quotables, quotes, reading2 Comments
books misc

tropes i would like to see more of

March 9, 2017 nesskingsley

... maybe this is love - not because the character declares it every. other. page (I could say that I am a dragon-slaying astronaut, for sure, but that don't make it so) but because we - the reader - have watched it grow.

Tagged fiction, heyer, marriage, reading, red rising, romance, tropes12 Comments

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