[sigh] Doesn't it just get right up your nose when you find a good site and then it disappears with no forwarding address...?
After thoroughly enjoying the
Love and the City blog for a week or so, the owner has now moved and deleted the old blog, dammit - and I can't find his new one. (Admittedly I haven't hunted very hard, don't have the time.) So I'm taking it off my list of blogs in the infopane until further notice...
Band 2 now finished (all 31 pages of it). It'll be posted 'friends only' (because of the content) in the next few hours in the
CCO808 Lj first, so those members whose characters I've borrowed (Valkyrie, Sylverthorne and Kendohotchick) have a (brief!) chance to read it before I open the link in
The Zone tonight.
It's been such fun writing it! Not quite as rib-ticklingly funny as the first one, but there's still enough in it to raise a chuckle...
Ploughing on with CH...
I've made time to read some of
Windlily's manga (breaks between CH spreads), and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Well, mostly -
RahXephon is pretty standard mecha (yawn, doesn't even have any decent bishies). But
Under the Glass Moon is great - unexpectedly whacky, and the male characters are terrific (gotta love a grouchy bishie wizard who favours leather, spikes and bondage gear!): unfortunately there's also two of the most irritating female characters I've ever come across - you thought Bulma was a pain in the arse, meet Nell. You just want to throttle the brat. Sage Maxillion is pretty obnoxious too. Luckily the pair of them are balanced by Madame Batolli, one of the best female characters I've found... I need to get the other two books in the series just to see where the hell it's going!
Rebirth is interesting - vampire story with a twist - although I could live without the loooong fight scenes (not quite as bad as DBZ, and at least you can turn the pages to skip the boring bits). The big surprise, however, was
The Demon Ororon (->). The art is spare, hard and not at all 'pretty', and the story is
extremely, graphically, violent, but it's extraordinarily compelling: I couldn't put it down. There are currently four in the series: I
have to get the two I'm missing, I want to know what happens next!
Haven't managed to watch any of the anime yet, unfortunately. May have to wait until CH is finished, dammit...
I've now had the next lot of books for review - including [happy bounce]
The Dark of the Sun, the latest(?) St-Germain book by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. I
love the St-Germain books, been collecting them for years - they're not that easy to get hold of over here (at least, I haven't found it easy, though I suppose they could be ordered...) Yarbro is a far better 'vampire' author than Rice, as far as I'm concerned (The Vampire Chronicles were pretty good until
Tale of the Bodythief, which took me two months to plough through, as it kept sending me to sleep, and after that the series went downhill rapidly...). I'll save this book for last!
Right, where was I? Oh yes...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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