Adventures in Editing:

[erastes]

Here's some wonderful Erastes prose for you.

"eyeing the fresh bottle of absinthe that Goertz had bought with opiate-dark eyes"

Bwahahahaha!!

Despite the weather today – sunny, then rainy, then cloudy – i get a real feeling of  Spring being JUST around the corner. There are buds on the Azaleas and Rhododendrons already, and the cherry trees and the birds are all busy busy busy. I have nothing for them. I'll make them a big unsalted yorkshire pudding when I make the lunch – they LOVE that.

Car failed its MOT, but only on minor things which is magnificent for an 11 year old car. Needs balancing of the brakes and a new brake pipe, and a new washer motor. Phew.

I'm reading a book (won't name it now) that I'm going to be reviewing for TLA soon, and I really can't get on with it. Everyone's so NICE!!!!!!!!!!! There's literally sixteen chapters of family niceness with a gay husband his husband and their adopted son (this is Canada) and it's all "You're such a great dad" and "we are so proud of you, son," and patting on heads and kisses and some sex and MORE NICENESS that I want to take a flamethrower to the entire saccharine Brady Bunch.  it's not a bad book, just…. too much sugar.

If you want to read my existing reviews on TLA – here you go:

Bob the Book – Four Stars out of Four

A Shared Range – Two ½ stars out of Four

Comments

[ali-wilde.livejournal.com]

Wow, were you here? Except we had sunny, then cloudy, then windy, then rainy. And our sunny was 36C.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

36! EEEK!

[beckyblack]

Eyeballs as currency. Lovely.

Bah, who wants nice, happy people in fiction? I wanna read about messed up people getting into trouble. As soon as they achieve lasting happiness it's time to type "The End."

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I always thought that Potter could have taken advantage of eyeballs as currency. He did have his mother's eyes, after all.

[beckyblack]

"When I were a lass you could go out drinking all night, get a taxi home, buy a fish supper and still have change from a dozen eyeballs."

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

I want to read 'Bob the Book' but not the stories about overly happy people.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Bob very good. Other - not so much. But some people will like it.

[josephine-myles.livejournal.com]

How many eyeballs does a bottle of absinthe cost these days, I wonder? XD

I've been feeling spring in the air - the snowdrops help.

Nice books tend to make me gag. I like my characters to be difficult and obstreperous. You've got to have at least one thoroughly messed up individual in a novel. There should be a law, or something.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

well, if this is 1866 and it only cost two... I'd say about 200. You'd need a big bag.

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

Those eyes!!!! I need them!! Hope the exchange rate is good ;)

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Never underestimate the purchasing power of opiate-dark eyes!

[jenniferkoliver.livejournal.com]

I <3 the idea of eyeball currency. It's like a zombie's dream! :D