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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
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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
ness talks about life, ness writes about writing

highlights of text butchery

March 4, 2017March 4, 2017 nesskingsley

You can look back on a butchered page and think: my gosh, this looks legit! Maybe I am a Proper Writer after all!

Tagged butchering, editing, highlighters, romance, wip, writing7 Comments
books misc, ness talks about life

whatcha reading?

February 17, 2017 nesskingsley

Reading The Hobbit has stalled. The fault does not lie with Tolkien, but myself. I haven't charged my kindle, therefore, I cannot read The Hobbit.

Tagged books, dan carlin, genghis khan, reading, saigo takamori, samurai, the hobbit, tolkien3 Comments

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