"Polyamory" is just wrong!

Found through the friend of a friend at jmspencer's journal here.

"... She explained polyamory to her mother-in-law, whose response was "That's just wrong.... It should be either multiamory or polyphilia, but this mixing of Greek and Latin roots? No. Wrong."

I understand it made it to the LJ Metaquotes community as well.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

When I spotted this book at the Virgin Megastore, it seemed to stand out from the others around it. Last time this happened was with a book by Helen DeWitt called The Last Samurai. I decided at the time I couldn't afford it and put it back. It took me over a year to track it down again and I regretted that I'd not read it earlier. This time I did some research, found out which two of the three colors they had was the first edition and bought it that evening.

It turned out I had heard of the book before when Neil Gaiman was defending his review in his blog. A statement that it was the best book about English magic in 70 years had ruffled some feathers. I won't say anything about his defense except that there is a difference between an English author writing about magic, and an author writing a book about magic in England.

It took me a few weeks to get through almost 800 pages (most of my reading gets done on the BART to and from work), but it was a most enjoyable journey. The end of the book leaves me with a sense of completion and a desire to see how the world develops from there.

I don't want to reveal any of the buried magic of this book, but I will say it starts as a personal journey of Mr. Norrell to bring magic back to England turns into an epic tale of English magic. This book creates a mythology that will stand up with the strongest of them.

To my friends, and others who may trust my opinion I say read this book.

A Buffy FanFic Story

This is a story I originally wrote in May of last year. I've been trying to find a FanFic community or forum to post it in, but since it's fairly tame (no hint of Angel subduing Spike and... well, you know) it doesn't fit into some of the categories that have whole groups dedicated to them. So if you're a Buffy fan and/or want to read a story I've written, here it is.

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