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[labellementeuse]

1. I just finished Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty, which is the first in a trilogy. I enjoyed it a bunch, but I found it slowed towards the end and I wasn't quite sold on it when I was done. Has anyone read the other two? Should I read them? Usually I am the kind of person to go straight onto them, but I have quite a big to-read list ATM and I didn't have the impetus I usually do.

2. I haven't posted for ages! Because I've been away. I went down to Christchurch for not one but TWO weddings, including my first bridesmaid wedding!!! My best friend, sixth_light got married to her long-term partner, Mike, in a really sweet, really really THEM ceremony in which I was honoured to be a bridesmaid. I admit it, I nearly cried, although my mother flat-out BAWLED. It's weird to think that Lucy, who is only six months older than me, is married, but in a nice way. I think she and Mike are really good together, they really love each other, and they're going to have a terrific marriage.

All of which could also be said about the couple whose wedding I attended the next weekend, A & G; but in all other respects the weddings were really different! L & M's was a completely secular, non-traditional wedding, held indoors, quite small, and the bridal party (save Mike, of course) was all women. A & G's was really rather traditional, religious, held outdoors, relatively large, and the bridal party was all men. The latter two rather tickled me, actually: smoosh them together and you have one average but totally personality-less wedding.

3. During and in between those weddings I spent nearly two weeks with my Christchurch buddies, although I didn't catch up with quite as many as I wanted to. However, it was really, really nice - for both of the weekend weddings I was staying in a house with a bunch of people I really adore (first weekend, L's family plus my bestie M and old old friend C, second weekend, A & G, plus the Long Distance BF B, L (dazyndara), some gaming friends, and a bunch of people I didn't know all that well but rly like.) While this wasn't conducive to sleep, it was conducive to AWESOME. I love my Welly peeps, but I'm really missing the big smoky flat place right now.

4. There's bound to be tonnes more stuff, but I'm exhausted - I've been double-shifting this week because next week I don't have a job anymore, yikes (anyone hiring a temp for two months? I'm clever, good with words, and sort of funny.) Plus, I have new episodes of Glee and White Collar to watch, because naturally, what I really needed was a new fandom. china_shop has been writing a terrific Neal/Peter/Elizabeth WIP/series-ish thing that I highly recommend, by the way.

ETA: Oh yeah. I have some google wave invites. Comment w/your email address if you want one!

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[katarik]

I have read the second, have not bothered to pick up THE SWEET FAR THING yet. REBEL ANGELS is a solid sequel, sets up some nice conflict for SWEET FAR THING, but uh. The revelations it gave me about Felicity piss me right the fuck off, and the skanky race issues that were in GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY are still there.

If you liked GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY, you will like REBEL ANGELS. How *much*... well, ain't that always the question.

[squaringkarma.livejournal.com]

Just so you know there was some markup issues with this post. Its root appears to be <user=sixth_light>.

Sorry to hear about losing your job. I can't wait til Monday when I get more TV including Glee and White Collar :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

oh, thanks! Yeah, I'm xposting from Dreamwidth and I still haven't quite got the hang of their livejournal codes (they have a neat system which allows you to type in a user name and specify the site at which that username applies, so you get a dreamwidth-style/lj-style username thing that links to the relevant livejournal account (they can do non-LJ ones too, it's just that I only play on DW and LJ.)

[skadi.livejournal.com]

The Boy read A Great and Terrible Beauty. She was greatly disappointed by the end. I think she read the second, but she wasn't too impressed. I guess she had expected a lot during the first half of A Great and Terrible Beauty, and she felt very let down.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is pretty much how I felt at the end of it. It still feels like it could really pick up... but the consensus seems to be "Nope", so I think I'll leave it. Life's too short, etc.

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

If you think you're weirded out about the marriage thing, Mike has taken to alternately giving me the finger or wailing "Don't caaaaallll me that, it's weeeeird!" every time I refer to him as my husband. It's very special. :P

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

That is special. Mayhap I will address my christmas card to "Lucy Yourlastname & husband" and see how he feels about that :P

[anna-en-route.livejournal.com]

I really really loved most of the last half of the last book in the series but felt like I was wading through a good portion of the second book.

I listened to them as audiobooks to keep me distracted while I was walking so I suspect that I might have a higher tolerance for them.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just don't know that I'm going to bother. I have a big pile of books-to-read anyway, so.

[duskshadows.livejournal.com]

hey! i missed you! then again, i've been all-work-and-no-play girl, so that's not hard. let me know next time you are down though!!!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I know! I meant to come to a knit night but then the people I was staying with had arranged something so I couldn't. :( And I was really quite busy most of the time I was down there, but still. I definitely will catch up when I'm down!

[lady-larla.livejournal.com]

im gonna do the "what am i chopped liver: sulk right now!