Yes, Gail! This is the story I want to tell. Only a few mins into The Heroine’s Journey and already loving it.

#BooksAboutWriting #HeroinesJourney #GailCarriger #ReadingAboutWriting #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

I’m now on a much-needed week’s holiday.

Thanks to Jenna Moreci’s book, Shut Up And Write The Book, (currently reading,) I discovered that I’m writing the heroine’s journey, without knowing it, and now I’m also reading Gail Carriger’s The Heroine’s Journey.

Will it join my list of writing craft must-reads?

I’ll let you know.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #JennaMoreci #GailCarriger #HeroinesJouney

#sheng #puer today, Honeybomb from #CrimsonLotusTea.

The #tbr pile behind has shrunk somewhat from yesterday. I finished book two in #gailcarriger's #SanAndreasShifters series around 2am (hello occasional insomnia) and now have begun book three, The Enforcer Enigma.

I rarely find werewolves interesting, presumably some Twilight related aversion, but I'll read anything Gail writes.

Today I read #TheSumageSolution by #gailcarriger.

A charming read as all her books are. But at first I was concerned that I was going to be a little disappointed. Not because of the quality of the writing, but without the quirky Victorian steampunk setting, I found myself wondering what the point of the story was. Not that any book needs a 'point', of course. So there's probably a better way to phrase what I was thinking, but I'm not sure what.

Then I hit page 273. And I didn't wonder any more.

Perhaps I was really questioning how this book was going to speak to me, personally. And I found it here. In the way he asks the question, in a completely natural manner. In the way she is happy to be a woman 'only with a cock'. It's not about how she is presenting, or what genitalia she was born with, but just what is.

I go forward now to the other books in the series with anticipation. I look forward to seeing how the societal upheaval she introduced into her Victorian past has grown into 'our' time.

(I was also amused by the fact the main character drinks #puer #tea and everyone else thinks it's awful.)

#books #lgbtq #review

Christmas #books! A biography of the late Queen by Gyles Brandreth from @micaeladawn and a lovely little edition of A Christmas Carol from our seven year old.

A re-read of the Dickens has been done already. Elizabeth is on the backburner at the moment as I've just started #gailcarriger's #SanAndreasShifters series.

My #tbr pile (ordered for stack stability, not priority) continues to grow delightfully. I don't think I'll need to buy any more this month!

#7Books, even if there are so many more, close to my heart...

1. Das Foucaultsche Pendel by #UmbertoEco
2. The Eight by #KatherineNeville
3. Neverwhere by #NeilGaiman
4. Hearts Blood by #JulietMarillier
5. Shadow war trilogy by #GeorgeLucas and #ChrisClaremont
6. Soulless by #GailCarriger
7. Shades of grey by #JasperFforde

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Just to introduce people to some of my hobbies and loves

#rupaul #gailcarriger #KFBreene #JodiTaylor #startrek #starwars #marvel #tolkein #lotro #lotr #lego

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Choosing just 6-7 authors is so hard. The ones I return to again and again and have read almost all their works are:
#SharonLee & SteveMiller
#GailCarriger
#LoisMcMasterBujold
#LindsayBuroker
#Scalzi
#GlynnStewart
#NathanLowell
#SeananMcGuire