Miscellany

Aug. 4th, 2015 01:00 pm
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I've been meaning to post for a while. I had some really "interesting" customers lately and other odd things happened at work. But as I'm on vacation, I don't want to think about work.

I came across a few websites:

Here's an (NSFW) article about a book (almost an ad) explaining how to be a good top. It had some things I hadn't thought of and might add to the next story I write with on-screen sex in it.

And here a story about three guy who love each other. Two are married and one of them works half the year on a TV show (behind the scenes). The article talks about the trials of being a threesome (from jealousy to getting a hotel room). The author says people ask about sex, but I was wondering more about what they slept on. They are all big men and I was guessing a king would be crowded. Especially when they invite other big men into their bed.


I heard this on the audio book I'm listening to: Young people these days (written and set in the 30s) "actually take refuge in irony, which should be reserved for the middle aged."

It's Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh. I probably wouldn't listened to more if this was the first book I'd listened to. It's got some really stereotyped gay boys in it. I'm not sure how much of the lisp, etc. it the guy reading it. The characters in the story get annoyed by them and Main calls them hothouse boys: one the black orchid and the other the yellow rose. He doesn't come across as the nice guy he seemed in the other two books I listened to (book 6 and 8, this was 4, the woman reading those did a much better job too).

I made a purse on Sunday, but I find I am suddenly unable to post pictures
Front    That picture doesn't have the Tree of Life in the bottom corner
Back
Under flap

and here's the tiny phone sized purse I made last month. It holds my phone, wallet, keys, headphones, and chapstick. 

So yesterday was my 24th wedding anniversary, so my husband and I headed into Portland without a plan other than to have a good time together. We rode the north half streetcar loop, ate at a food cart, rode the bus to the Pittock mansion (built and lived in by people who shaped the city), got lost on Forest Park, then rode the Max, WES, and bus home. Google made a slide show but only two of the photos show up on my computer while seventeen show up on my phone.

And I've finally finished my book (business) cards and my web site is working (let me know if you think it needs anything). So now I can hand them out to people I know in real life.

When searching for the link to my book on Amazon, I noted the five reviews. Now if they were on FP or lj, I'd read them in a second whether they liked the story or not. But I'm scared to look. I read an author's blog where a guest author said to embrace reviews. Good one boost you and bad one teach you. But I'm not sure I want to do that to myself. 

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 Would a character make sense if he was desperately in love with someone, but not sexually attracted, as he isn't turned on by anyone? Would this guy be asexual? How does a relationship between someone who is asexual and someone who isn't, work? Anyone know a place I could look this up that is written by someone who knows what they are talking about? So much of the internet is people blowing smoke.


I just discovered that my favorite book ever is a free ebook (that comes in several formats). Agent of Change is science fiction and might be the first book I totally identified with the main character. I was young. Miri looked young. She is also short (check) and redheaded (which I was until I was in my thirties) and her hair was long enough to wear as a braid crown (I wanted hair that long). Plus she's tough and can protect herself in all by the most extraordinary circumstances. The book is about the most extraordinary of circumstances. 

This book comes in first, because sometimes when I reread Pride and Prejudiced (my second favorite), I skip parts. I never skip any of Agent of Change. Years ago when I had an interview to get into an alternative high school, I told my favorite books and the teacher said I had diverse tastes, but I don't think it's that at all. Both books are about characters, one in the British countryside and the other on several planets and ships in between, but It's still about people.

Agent of Change can work as a stand alone. I didn't realize that there was a sequel for a decade after I read the first book. Or you can read all... fifteen, twenty of them. Personally I love the ones with Miri and Val Con, and Theo isn't bad, but Shan isn't my cup of tea and neither are prequels.

There are certainly worse ways to waste a few hours.


I had something else, but now I can't remember.

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I was going to post this last Thursday, but I got some books in the mail (The Lord of the White Hell, Book 1 & 2 by Ginn Hale) and between them (they are one long book split in two rather than a book and its sequel), work, and an incredibly painful earache that you’d have to experience to believe, done nothing for the last four days.


Title: The Meaning of Home
Series: A Balance of Harmonies (Three)
Status: Chapter eighty-nine of a few score
Genre: m/m romance, drama, city life, businessmen
Rating: R
Content: cuddling, worry, room, family, the gang, fruits of labor, a call, a returned call, shopping list, a workout, tea, something, kisses, hope, good men, meeting, a story
Length: about 2,600 words
Summary: Emil is home. Kurt is the go-to guy. And Peregrine needs clear sight.


Master list



Tell me about Brandon )


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I'm listening to The Circular Staircase, a suspense story written in 1907. It calls itself a mystery, but almost every scene starts with foreshadowing. It's written as if the reader knows the ending to this mystery and the narrator is simply filling in the pieces. She made one allusion to the big thing that happened on June 7th, and I think the story is set in May, but I'm not sure, so I'll just have to wait.

Listening to all old book is a study in language. The author uses a lot of words in ways we don't any more. When a man ejaculates, she only means he's exclaiming, intercourse only means talking, that kind of thing.

My biggest problem with the story, isn't the story at all. It's my phone. For some reason it thinks it's a good idea to play the first 17 tracks, then track 21, 22, 18, 23- 25, 19, 26-29, 32. At first I didn't realize what was happening, then I tried to find the next track when each ended. I'm going to try taking all the books off and then putting this one back on and seeing if that works. Of course if I could figure out how to put a playlist on my phone this wouldn't be a problem.



Title: His Two Selfish Men
Series: A Balance of Harmonies (Three)
Status: Chapter forty-two of so many
Genre: m/m romance, drama, city life, businessmen
Rating: R
Content: coming home, promises, cleaning up, standards, breeching the subject, confessing, contact, a plan, comfort, and an apology
Length: about 1,900 words
Summary: Kurt comes home to dinner and more. Peregrine has a painful conversation. Emil accepts an apology.

Master list



“Fill me with your deliciousness.” )
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I walk around the blocks near my house every day I don’t work, and I’ve discovered that listening to books on CD is much more interesting than listening to music, so I went through the books the library had on mp3-CD and put holds on everything that looked vaguely interesting. I ended up with a book on grammar, a few romances, a James Bond, some supernatural juvenile fiction, several Jeeves and Woosters, and a handful of mysteries (I stopped at H after twenty books. I can’t listen to them all at once anyway).

Rant about a book I'm currently listening to )

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