What have I missed, then?

So, is there anything I've missed? Any rants? Kerfuffles? Returns from the departed, a la zarah5? Departures of the stomping kind? Cute icons? Above all, any good fics???

Oh, and speaking of which: here's my rec: helenish's fantastic Reparations series, and it's still unfinished so will continue to delight! It's Harry Potter and, as you know, I'm no HP fan (really) and only rec or read if it's absolutely fabulous. And this one is. Crackling prose, characterisations that cut like blades, just brilliant.

On the other hand, what a disappointment Mary Renault is proving! I'm reading Fire from Heaven and yes, it's slashy, and yes, it's sensual but also yes, its prose clonks along like a pair of mismatched wooden clogs and yes, it does not manage to immerse me into any kind of story-world (which is the least I would expect from historical fiction)and yes, its plotting confuses - who are all these people and why are names dropped and forgotten and taken up again... It's as chaotic as trying to follow Ned Kelly the movie. Well, I'll plod on for a bit and I did also buy the next one The Persian Boy, but slashiness doeth not redeem bad!fic. Well, all right: okay!fic.

One thing about writing as well as reading: there's always some redeeming lesson to take away from absolutely everything. :-)

*waves at everyone*

l'ufficio

Oh, and I've discovered The Office. Very belatedly, I know. But t'h gave me a DVD for Christmas and we started watching it last week and now I'm hooked. The tension!! The romance! The strange sexiness of it! The unrequitedness! The office equipment and the sheer horror of plumbing the depths of self-abasement and embarrassment.

Whom do I love? Tim, Gareth, Dawn. Oh, and Keith. ;-)

The main guy is spooky, he's so real.