Today’s Unconscious Muttering:
Traditional :: Valenciennes Lace
Popeye :: Spinach
Gin :: Bathtub
Harsh :: Mistress
Topless :: Tassel
The thing :: Rock-hard Abs
Defiant :: Western
Huge :: Penis
Food :: Drink
Lenny :: Bruce
So many fabulous people have books out right about now and I’ve got copies of all of them! Squee!! I’m happily suffering from an embarrassment of yummy reading riches. Some books I’ve already gulped down, others are sitting in my TBR pile winking and wiggling at me. I haven’t written an actual book review in a dog’s age, mostly because nobody’s paid me to do so in about that long and I’m a lazy writer when not being paid for wordcount. I’ve pretty much forgotten the tropes of form and content involved - about any of these books I’d splutter something from the following: go! buy!! read! frosting! chocolate frosting!! thrills and chills!! laugh out loud! sleep with the lights on!! savor words laid to paper like a fine sirloin on glowing mesquite! sparkly butterflies!! love! redemption!! high caliber weaponry! yummy!!
So because I am a) lazy, b) forgetful, and c) staring at a great stretch of butcher paper covered in story notes that I’m going to be putting into Curio this afternoon, I’m summing up my opinion of these books in one fell swoop - all are excellent reads, a helluva good time, well worth the money and written by neato people I or my husband know personally. I highly recommend y’all run, don’t walk, to get your own copies. In no particular order:
The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes
Lost Girls
Bobbie Faye’s Very (very, very, very) Bad Day
Territory
The Cleaner
The Gospel of the Knife
Agnes and the Hitman
In the immortal words of Latigo Flint:
“Everything moves if you watch it long enough. And eventually becomes a fangy clown face tentacle monster. And some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by fangy clown face tentacle monsters.”
Suppose I should actually pipe up about finally figuring out that all I needed to do was switch inkblog to blogspot then use the nifty importer deelio, but that’s too much like actually posting something thus has taken me a while to get around to. As I’m going through my past 6.5 years of posts and categorizing them with WP’s neato category thingy, I am somewhat embarrassed to see how much of my time here has been spent posting quiz results. Geez. I should use LJ for that, or maybe MySpace. Life’s been nuts lo these past months - the most recent item of serious unfun is that my mom finally got off her duff and started the followup series of chemo, only to end up in the hospital night before last with acute renal failure. Le sigh.