novelin' Saturday
Nov. 21st, 2009 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaI'm having a cozy day at home, while outside it's LA-autumnal. Just had a second (small) pot of Trader Joe's Wintry Blend coffee, which I adore. I just wrote 500 words of chapter 20, and will do more. I need to do some research too. The chapter is set at a 1976 daytime TV awards ceremony, so I've been researching the Daytime Emmys, which only got started in 1973. I can't find any Youtube clips from the 1976 show, but the 1975 show, weirdly enough, took place on a boat in the Hudson! Everyone looks a little discombobulated, or, possibly, seasick. The 1976 Daytime Emmys took place at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.
I've started reading Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian. I find I can't read as much as I'd like these days, focused as I am on the home stretch of the Jo book, but Heyer seems to work. Also I'm back to watching the 1966 pre-Barnabas episodes of Dark Shadows, which are comforting in their glacial pace. David Collins is an excellent Creepy Child.
Victoria Winters (David's governess): You said you hated me. You said if I died, you wouldn't come to my funeral.
David: Did I say that? If you died, I would go to your funeral.
Victoria: Why?
David: Because I LIKE funerals.
Heeee.
I've started reading Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian. I find I can't read as much as I'd like these days, focused as I am on the home stretch of the Jo book, but Heyer seems to work. Also I'm back to watching the 1966 pre-Barnabas episodes of Dark Shadows, which are comforting in their glacial pace. David Collins is an excellent Creepy Child.
Victoria Winters (David's governess): You said you hated me. You said if I died, you wouldn't come to my funeral.
David: Did I say that? If you died, I would go to your funeral.
Victoria: Why?
David: Because I LIKE funerals.
Heeee.
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Date: 2009-11-21 11:06 pm (UTC)[hugs]
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Date: 2009-11-21 11:26 pm (UTC)::hugs::
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Date: 2009-11-21 11:51 pm (UTC)Hee, indeed!
I'm so pleased the weather's changing! I've finally been able to replant the pots on my terrace and I think I might go ahead and buy plants for the gardener to put in along the north side of the building. Doing that when it's still 100 degrees is just stupid. Plus, sweaters!
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Date: 2009-11-22 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-22 01:58 am (UTC)You were in my dream last night. We had adjacent beds in a big ward-style dormitory room, where we were in college. I was back for my second degree or possibly third, yet living in a big room with 10 other girls. Weird.
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Date: 2009-11-22 06:04 am (UTC)I only started reading Heyer this year, and I adore her. Haven't tried her medievals, but I gather they are not well-liked...
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Date: 2009-11-22 06:15 am (UTC)My top threes list is rather fluid, though Heyer has maintained a slot since I first read her about 3 years ago. I read every single Regency work of hers in one summer, as well as a few of her mysteries (which not everyone likes, though I do!).
Off the top of my head, I'd say M. T. Anderson is my second, and I've just recently devoured everything I could find by Mitchell Smith (of whom nobody seems to have heard!). There are plenty of other fabulous books, but those are three of my favorites for consistent excellence.
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Date: 2009-11-22 07:37 am (UTC)Yes, I did know Heyer was 17 when she wrote The Black Moth. I haven't read that one yet, but I hear it bears some resemblance to These Old Shades, which I love...
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