Books Read since last time

145 - Dangerous Prey - Lindsay McKenna
146 - The Asti Spumante Code - Toby Clements
147 - Matilda at the Speed of Light - ed Damien Broderick
148 - Slippery When Wet - Kimberley Raye
149 - Your Scandalous Ways - Loretta Chase
150 - From This Moment On - Lynn Kurland
151 - In Defence of Food - Michael Pollan
152 - Cents & Sensibility - Maggie Alderson
153 - Hard Day's Knight - Katie MacAlister
154 - A Mother for the Tycoon's Child - Patricia Thayer
155 - Stardust - Neil Gaiman
156 - Genreflecting - Diana Tixier Herald
157 - Something Wicked - David Roberts
158 - No One Noticed the Cat - Anne McCaffrey
159 - Death of a Raven - Margaret Duffy
160 - Dragon Harper - Anne & Todd McCaffrey
161 - Shoe Money - Maggie Alderson
162 - A Holiday Gamble - Jane Feather
163 - When Sparks Fly - Sabrina Jeffries
164 - Snowy Night With a Highlander - Julia London

The Pollan book was good. I really liked the Alderson/s. The joint McCaffrey annoyed the crap out of me - it was just 'Moreta' re-written in a different time-frame and with a younger (male) protag. Gahhh! I've definitely reached my absolute limit of 'sexy' Regencies, though (those last three). It deeply jars my sense of what's proper when the unmarried girl succumbs to the lordling's importunities. For some reason it doesn't bother me if it's a widow, but for the young virginal girl it just seems anachronistic. I may be prudish in this regard - or just brought up on Heyer - but Ivanesque I find myself saying "that's just wrong!"

Writer's Block: Local Favourite

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The Australian War Memorial is my favourite:

http://www.awm.gov.au

you can spend days in there and still not see everything. Along with our (un)patented Nightlights Tour of Canberra, where we take the visitors to all the high spots and show them them lit-up versions of the national landmarks.

My elder brother and his wife and step-kids are coming for the second week of the school holidays (11th - 17th July) so we'll no doubt be doing a lot of touristy stuff. I'm scheduling appointments so that I don't have to work at all that week, since we didn't end up getting much of a break on our 'holiday'!