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- princess garnet
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- LoveHistory
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- DianeL
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Had a good writing exercise in a workshop today (here). I dislike the dialogue, but it was otherwise a free-flowing and relatively easy success.
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
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- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
Delightful and informative meeting of the Bay Area chapter of the Historical Novel Society. The meeting topic was 'promotion and publicity' with a panel featuring Cecelia Holland, Ciji Ware, Gillian Bagwell, and Destiny Kinal. Lots of new info on what works and what didn't in this brave new publishing world.
Discovering that I can download library books to my phone.
This might seem a little pathetic but when I ordered the new phone I told them I didn't care how many megapixels the phone had but it did have to have three other things: Kindle, Audible and the BBC iPlayer.
It has Kindle but the app didn't become available until the day I received the phone (handy), Audible won't be available for another three months or so. But I can't get the BBC on it and we don't know if, or when, this will be available. I thought that as a worst possible scenario, I could swap the SIM into my old phone but it turns out it uses a different sized SIM so that won't work.
It's not as if I use it very often but it is dang handy to have when something major is happening in the country or the world to keep up to date. I can download programmes to my old phone to watch on long journeys to and from work if necessary (although I am usually too busy reading) but it doesn't keep me up to date. The phone does have Sky News but.....i hate hate hate Sky and won't willingly participate in its offerings.
So finding Overdrive for it was a definite plus.
This might seem a little pathetic but when I ordered the new phone I told them I didn't care how many megapixels the phone had but it did have to have three other things: Kindle, Audible and the BBC iPlayer.
It has Kindle but the app didn't become available until the day I received the phone (handy), Audible won't be available for another three months or so. But I can't get the BBC on it and we don't know if, or when, this will be available. I thought that as a worst possible scenario, I could swap the SIM into my old phone but it turns out it uses a different sized SIM so that won't work.
It's not as if I use it very often but it is dang handy to have when something major is happening in the country or the world to keep up to date. I can download programmes to my old phone to watch on long journeys to and from work if necessary (although I am usually too busy reading) but it doesn't keep me up to date. The phone does have Sky News but.....i hate hate hate Sky and won't willingly participate in its offerings.
So finding Overdrive for it was a definite plus.
Currently reading - Emergence of a Nation State by Alan Smith
- DianeL
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I won't get into details irrelevant to most of us, but today, rainy and cold and beautiful, is one I am grateful for in Christ. Training myself to humility may be beyond me in the end, but there is joy even occasionally releasing myself to a finer will than I can ever possess, and even more in finding hope for a loved one's greater good.
"To be the queen, she agreed to be the widow!"
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
***
http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
***
The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
***
http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor