1. Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. Nice. They met upon the third Wednesday Lost! Wednesdays are the most boring of days, as everyone knows. Anyone who chooses Wednesdays for anything of "importance" doesnt think they are that important after all. But not to seem Dayist, I"ll keep reading. of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic. ug, See!
They were gentleman-magicians, which is to say they had never harmed any one by magic -- nor ever done the slightest good. Ok well, that could be something. In fact, to own the truth, not one of these magicians had ever cast the smallest spell, nope. nor by magic caused one leaf to tremble upon a tree, made one mote of dust to alter its course or changed a single hair upon any one's head. Nice imagery but not enough to pull me back in. But, with this minor reservation, they enjoyed a reputation as some of the wisest and most magical gentlemen in Yorkshire.
2. I have never been what you'd call a crying man. out. who ever heard of a "crying man"?
My ex-wife said that my 'nonexistent emotional gradient' hey! nonexistant emotional gradient. pretty rare to find someone who admits to it. was the main reason she was leaving me probably not a lie,(as if the guy she met in her AA meetings was beside the point, probably still a factor. But she mightn't have noticed him at all if you had any more feeling than a dead fish. Do you have more feeling than a dead fish? you seem upset she's gone.). Christy said she supposed she could forgive me not crying at her father's funeral; she sounds like a sarcastic ***** are you sure your hurt she left you? I had only known him for six years and couldn't understand what a wonderful, giving man he had been (a Mustang convertible as a high school graduation present, for instance). Yeah sarcastic... But then, when I didn't cry at my own parents' funerals -- they died just two years apart, Dad of stomach cancer and Mom of a thunderclap heart attack while walking on a Florida beach -- she began to understand the nonexistent gradient thing. I 'was unable to feel my feelings' in AA-speak.
meh. bitter man is bitter. I'll give it a pass.
3. It's nothing. I hate nothing. Pass.
4. Nyx sold her womb who hasnt?
1. Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
2. 11.22.63, Stephen King.
3. Moxyland, Lauren Buerkes.
4. God's War, Kameron Hurley.
5. The Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold.
6. The Prisoner of Heaven, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
7. Before I Die, Jenny Downham
8. Among Others, Jo Walton.
9.The Holy Machine, Chris Beckett.
