Posts By: irina

Reading notes, week 22

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Exile’s Honor by Mercedes Lackey. Long enough ago that it was newish. I’d forgotten that it includes much of the war, and I admit I skimmed some of the war. Still think it’s one of the best Valdemar novels. Exile’s Valor by Mercedes Lackey. Ditto, and last time around I thought it was not as

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Reading notes, week 21

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Well, not quite one book this week. Two full novels and also a bunch of fanfic, which I’m not listing except the one that stood out by a mile. Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers. Concluding this round of Harriet Vane rereads because I was reading canon for my intoabar story, and I don’t much feel

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Reading notes, week 20

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Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers. (If that link throws up a paywall, clearing cookies and refreshing the page is likely to fix it.) Part of the Harriet Vane reread. Goodness, I’m reading a different book yet again. If I’d read only Gaudy Night in my life, and none of the other Harriet Vane novels,

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Reading notes, week 19

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Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers. Part of my Harriet Vane reread. It contains both the best (searching on the beach, solving the cypher) and the worst (row about gratitude, cringingly antisemitic encounter with theatre agent) scenes in all of Dorothy Sayers’ works. The puzzle is exquisite, though. (And the TV adaptation is also

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Reading notes, week 18

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All of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Now I’m fixing the atrocious epub conversion so I can give them to Spouse without cringing. I think my favourite is #2, Searching for Dragons. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers. Canon review, in fact, because I offered Harriet Vane for the a ficathon goes

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Reading notes, week 17

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A slew of Enchanted Forest fanfic (GET THE NAMES RIGHT DAMMIT, you can check that they’re called Cimorene, Mendanbar and Kazul, not Cimorine, Mendenbarr and Kuzul), which makes me want to reread the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Oh, and ignore all the things tagged “vore” that the search above yields unless you happen to be into

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The dream engine scares and confuses me

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First, a nightmare that scared me so much that I sat up and said “so scary! so scary” as I’d said in the dream itself, though in the dream it didn’t happen to me or even when I was present, but only to a random guy in an instructional film! It was a promo film

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Reading notes, week 16

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Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie. I didn’t remember (and neither was it clear from my previous post) how absolutely weird it is. Goodness, I’d have tossed it aside because I had no patience with (mostly) old (mostly) white men discussing world domination if it hadn’t been for Aunt Matilda. Oh, and the protagonist Stafford

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Vespers of Easter

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Service: 9 of 9  Time: 0:30  Total: 4:00  Grand total: 17:22 Crew: Altar: Fr T and two acolytes (the young man who has now served All The Services, and my godson’s brother).  Choir: SSSSSAAT, so I asked Ukrainian Soprano to sing the alto part because she can, though it doesn’t really suit her voice. Congregation:

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Christ is risen!

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Service: 8 of 9  Time: 3:30  Total: 3:30  Grand total: 16:52 Crew: Altar: Fr T, Hypodiakon and five acolytes (two young men, an older man, two boys aged about 12).  Choir: SSSSAATB (Baritone had volunteered to help out the Serbians in his hometown who appeared to otherwise have no singers at all, but we had

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