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Don't forget, today's the day!

Today is the Sugar Quill submissions day!!

Details are here

Basically they're looking for links to completed stories either on LJ or archived at another site that might be suitable for the Quill. Read anything great lately? Check with the author then recommend away. Think you're up to it? Link to your own work if you like (I'm sure that's what I'll be doing!)

Accepted authors will become proper SQ authors with an SQ beta and can begin submitting all their stories in the normal way.

This may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity - don't miss it!

(lots of hugs to amamamafor already nominating me!!)

Girlish giggling in the library.

I've started on my  next mammoth reading course - general introduction to the NT.  At the moment I'm working my way through 'Backgrounds of Early Christianity'.  So I just read this sentence and couldn't help the grin as I remembered the last time I came across this particular manly man:

'The Persian advance was slowed by the valiant Spartan resistance under their king Leonidas at the pass of Thermopylae...'

Funnily, it doesn't mention their valiant attack on the werewolves a few weeks ago.  *grins*

This may also encourage moonette1in her novel:

The Greeks always prized male good looks and much admired the physically perfect male specimen - especially evident in the athlete.

 

Mmm.

This sentence surprised me at first:

...the Romans were too slow to accept Greek athletics.

But now I see it actually says

...the Romans too were slow to accept Greek athletics.

First Among Sequels

If you haven't yet discovered the joy and delight and sheer silly fun that is reading a Jasper Fforde novel, then you have a treat in store. Fforde writes about books, about reading books, about the world within the book, about the interaction between text and reader (not so much author) and does it all with utterly hilarious jokes. It took me a long time to notice that the romantic male lead is called Landen Parke-Laine. Try saying it out loud. Then add in the fact that his parents are Houson and Bildon.

Puns aside, the Thursday Next novels deal with time travel, goo, the Goliath corporation, smuggling cheese out of the People's Republic of Wales, and how to restore the kidnapped Jane Eyre to her novel which, since it is written in the first person, can't exist at all without her.

I read the fifth TN book on the plane last week. Fforde has also written two books in the Nursery Crimes series which are also fun. But not as much fun as the Thursday Next books, in my opinion.

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Sorry

I know I've been spamming everyone's flists lately - I'm feeling a bit trigger happy with the new laptop. Anyway, I think everyone's already done this meme. Ah well.

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