Very much looking forward to Thursday. And my appreciation to Juniper, please, for her giving up an evening with you. Meet you at 4:30, you can talk to Capper (may it do enough good), have supper with the staff (Étienne Froissart has some questions for you, I think, and Pomona and Septima are both looking forward to seeing you) And then you can show off your work.
Sorry for not making it in tonight - combination of catch-up and time with Capper is on my schedule. (And to be honest, I’m tired enough I’m not quite sure I trust apparating the distance at the moment.)
On the rest: not as much improvement as I’d like, as you might guess from the above.
Mum’s been sending those romantic suspense novels you mock so regularly. I know why you do, but at the same time, there’s something quite restful about them. You get an interesting bit of (mostly historical, in these) setting, you get people meeting, horrible things happen, and then everyone good lives happily ever after. Stars in their order, where you expect them to be.
There’s one you might actually like, The Eye of Her Heart - an alternate history Maddelena de Medici, who ran away to wizarding England rather than be married off to a dissolute illegitimate son of the Pope. Adventures along the way. More suspense than romance, anyway.
Two Mum threw in because she knew they’d drive me up a wall in the right way. In Bright Array has the astronomy all wrong but done so it's fun to figure out where they went wrong in their research. (And, of course, I do know the story of the squib astronomers they based it on.) Might even use it for extra credit in class sometime. And the other, Love’s Augury has divination all over its plot and a series of improbable magical challenges and is just hilariously bad. (The cover is all over pink, purple, and symbols, too.)
And truly, I’ve not much attention for research at the moment, even if the weather were cooperating more than it is. So having something that I can lose myself in is rather the thing.
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Date: 2012-03-20 05:37 pm (UTC)Very much looking forward to Thursday. And my appreciation to Juniper, please, for her giving up an evening with you. Meet you at 4:30, you can talk to Capper (may it do enough good), have supper with the staff (Étienne Froissart has some questions for you, I think, and Pomona and Septima are both looking forward to seeing you) And then you can show off your work.
Sorry for not making it in tonight - combination of catch-up and time with Capper is on my schedule. (And to be honest, I’m tired enough I’m not quite sure I trust apparating the distance at the moment.)
On the rest: not as much improvement as I’d like, as you might guess from the above.
Mum’s been sending those romantic suspense novels you mock so regularly. I know why you do, but at the same time, there’s something quite restful about them. You get an interesting bit of (mostly historical, in these) setting, you get people meeting, horrible things happen, and then everyone good lives happily ever after. Stars in their order, where you expect them to be.
There’s one you might actually like, The Eye of Her Heart - an alternate history Maddelena de Medici, who ran away to wizarding England rather than be married off to a dissolute illegitimate son of the Pope. Adventures along the way. More suspense than romance, anyway.
Two Mum threw in because she knew they’d drive me up a wall in the right way. In Bright Array has the astronomy all wrong but done so it's fun to figure out where they went wrong in their research. (And, of course, I do know the story of the squib astronomers they based it on.) Might even use it for extra credit in class sometime. And the other, Love’s Augury has divination all over its plot and a series of improbable magical challenges and is just hilariously bad. (The cover is all over pink, purple, and symbols, too.)
And truly, I’ve not much attention for research at the moment, even if the weather were cooperating more than it is. So having something that I can lose myself in is rather the thing.