#spinstrs

It is now 9:28pm and I’m going to head to bed.

This past weekend, @clavisa, @scribblinaway, and @leslielikesthings visited! It was lots of fun. Highlights included visiting a hat store with @destinationtoast, Hamlet roulette with @llamapunk (I hope to post a review in the next few days), the “boisterous barking pinnipeds” at Fisherman’s Wharf, bookstore browsing (I wish there’d been more time for that---there are a lot more bookstores we could’ve visited), incompetence with the selfie stick, and a rather high frequency of ice cream consumption.

I really enjoyed the second person and it made me think of @aeternamente‘s Pedrazar fic :)

The only thing you need to know is a) it involves a badass lady in the late-ish Eastern Roman Empire plus a much more interesting & diverse cast of characters than you normally get in Rome books and b) don’t read the blurb because it outlines the plot of the entire first half of the novel and it’s nicer not knowing the twists. Just trust. If you have ever trusted a recommendation from me, trust this one. 

@scribblinaway have you watched the thing and if so would you like to comment about how historically accurate it is? 

If you want to see what I’ve read, what I thought about it, and what I’m considering reading, I’ve just updated this page. 

Anyway, Courtney Milan herself has a post where she gives a couple options of where to start and it’s exactly the advice I’d give so I’m just going to link you to it.