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[danuv]

I stepped down from guild leadership yesterday and made a post on the forums letting them know I was quitting WoW. That was more difficult than I expected it to be but it's time to move on.

Of course now that I don't have WoW to fill in my idle hours I'll have to actually do something like read books again (actually one of the big reasons why it was time to quit). I've been hankering for a particular sort of trashy novel for a while now and when I started to rattle off to Tamara what I was looking for, "sort of love triangle with at least one of the guys being morally ambiguous/evil but still redeemable, supernatural element and lots of 'fate'" (I did say -trashy-) she immediately suggested the Amelia Peabody series by Barbara Mertz/Elizabeth Peters which looks interesting. She did say all the sex in it is implied which kinda lowers the trash factor I was looking for but somehow I'll survive. I'll order a few up on Friday. She also recommended the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon which I've never read. I was able to find those on the newsgroups so I guess I'll give them a whirl first. Quitting WoW is going to end up costing us more money in reading material.

Last week I started on a project that's been percolating in my head for years. I just call it The Wall. Basically it's just note cards of all the artists, patrons and socialites I've been interested in over the past decade stuck to a large wall in my living room. I'm organizing them in some basic grouping mostly by location and artistic movement right now (the Parisian dada group, the Berlin dadaists so on and so forth) and then I'm going to start making connections with various colored strings, 'influenced by' 'in relationship with' 'close friendship' 'patron' and make webs. It's fun for me to see how all of the people I love learning about from Belle Époque Paris to the Abstract Expressionists of New York all connect together. It's also a way for me to reinforce my shaky memory, fill in my swiss cheese brain and find gaps where I could learn more. Apart from that it's fairly pointless but entertaining to me.

Comments

[roisnoir.livejournal.com]

I adore the Amelia Peabody books. :)

If you want something juicier.. hmm. For a triangle with some moral ambiguity (IIRC), you might check out Jill Myers' Succubus diaries. I've read the first two, and decided that I liked other things better, but that's mostly because I'm *so* over vampires. They're entertaining reads, though.

Also Yasmine Galenorn's Sisters of the Moon series. (There are a lot of them. Think Anita Blake, with less shark jumping.)

For fate, Cheryl Brooks' Cat Star books are pretty fate-ish. Also hot, and amusing. (Smutty space opera with catboys. No triangles, though.)

[danuv.livejournal.com]

I tore through the first Succubus book in between chapters of Outlander and the fact that it was basically a porn book wrapped in a bit of plot had me giggling.

You know, I never read Anita Blake. I heard so many people bashing the books that I just skipped right past them.

[christinefalls.livejournal.com]

Big recommendation for the Outlander series. Love that one. Sexy Scottish men in kilts, can't go wrong there. And lots of twists and turns and adventure.

There are currently 7 books, and she's writing the 8th right now.

[danuv.livejournal.com]

It's been pretty good so far, I'm most of the way through the first one.