Montmaray Montmaray Montmaray!
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osprey_archerYou guys, you guys! I got TWO Yuletide stories this year! (Now I feel even extra guiltier about defaulting. D: It was not my fault! I crashed my car!)
And they are both for the Montmaray Journals (and you should all totally read the original Montmaray Journals! They're by Michelle Cooper and they're about the royal family of the fictional island kingdom Montmaray in the Bay of Biscay during the late 1930s, and their narrator is like Cassandra from I Capture the Castle except EVEN MORE AWESOME.)
First, Aftermath in Triptych, which makes me very happy because it has LOTS of Veronica. I love all the FitzOsbornes, but if I had to pick a favorite - if you held a gun to my head - it would be Veronica. (Ugh, but how can I not say Sophie? This is so hard!)
I love how she's so passionate about abstract things, like international law and the League of Nations, and so intelligent and driven and just steamrolls over people when they're wrong. Veronica is so intensely herself, without caring about what other people think, and it's wonderful to watch.
And second Packing, in which Sophie and her little sister Henry (short for Henrietta) discuss packing up for Henry's boarding school. It's funny and sweet and Henry is so very ridiculously Henry.
And they are both for the Montmaray Journals (and you should all totally read the original Montmaray Journals! They're by Michelle Cooper and they're about the royal family of the fictional island kingdom Montmaray in the Bay of Biscay during the late 1930s, and their narrator is like Cassandra from I Capture the Castle except EVEN MORE AWESOME.)
First, Aftermath in Triptych, which makes me very happy because it has LOTS of Veronica. I love all the FitzOsbornes, but if I had to pick a favorite - if you held a gun to my head - it would be Veronica. (Ugh, but how can I not say Sophie? This is so hard!)
I love how she's so passionate about abstract things, like international law and the League of Nations, and so intelligent and driven and just steamrolls over people when they're wrong. Veronica is so intensely herself, without caring about what other people think, and it's wonderful to watch.
And second Packing, in which Sophie and her little sister Henry (short for Henrietta) discuss packing up for Henry's boarding school. It's funny and sweet and Henry is so very ridiculously Henry.
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Date: 2011-12-26 12:31 am (UTC)Clearly you're okay, but still.
Happy Christmas!
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Date: 2011-12-26 02:59 am (UTC)The car runs fine - I drove it home from Minnesota - but the front end looks so tragic that I want to give it a hug whenever I see it.
Merry Christmas!
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Date: 2011-12-26 03:03 pm (UTC)I hit a deer two days after I got my second car (the first nice one). I was really lucky because it was just a glancing blow, but then I got rear-ended the next week. I've been paranoid ever since.
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Date: 2011-12-26 11:47 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're okay!