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Re: Sewing regency clothes? - 7 weeks ago
It all depends on how you're going to sew: using authentic historical methods or a more quick and dirty modern method (sewing machines are a life saver, but definitely anachronistic). A simple gown would, in general, be fairly easy to make. I would, of course, suggest making a muslin first (essentially, a version of the dress in a really cheap fabric, such as muslin) before attempting it in a niby Kathy - Tea Room
Re: Livings in the Church and the Function of Bishops - 2 months ago
I can't comment on current tradition in CofE, but if you're curious about the origins of the two practices of investiture, I would suggest looking up more on the Concordat of London and the Concordat of Worms, both around the 1100s. Even with those and the Gregorian reforms that laid the foundations for Church/state separation, the investiture controversy was still going on around the time the reby Kathy - Tea Room
Re: Researching stories - 3 months ago
Absolutely! I'm now going on two years of sitting on a story that takes place in the French Revolution, all because I keep finding new books to read before I go on with the next chapter. Scrupulousity is a seriously dangerous thing.by Kathy - Tea Room
It's not a grammatical error... - 4 months ago
...but it certainly can irk some people to have "too many" thats in a sentence. The current trend in style seems to be to eliminate any unnecessary words and punctuation, but it certainly was not always that way. Even now it's primarily up to the writer and editor to determine whether a that should be used — either way, it's grammatically correct, according to my sources. Grammar Girl had a podcby Kathy - Tea Room
Ditto on the pigs - 1 year ago
My favorite Wodehouse books tend to be of the Bertie Wooster variety. I would have to agree with Margaret D — my favorite was The Code of the Woosters, as well. The only problem I have is I can only usually read a book every so often; too many at once and it gets overwhelming, like watching an 8-hour marathon of half-hour sitcoms. The Blandings Castle were very fun, although I don't think I everby Kathy - JAFF Library
Sounds really good. - 2 years ago
I have a friend who loves this particular type of book, so I'll have to recommend it to her. The process is usually that a book gets recommended from her to my husband to me, so perhaps in about a month I'll be able to let you know how I liked it. :)by Kathy - JAFF Library
Re: Shades of Grey (continued spoiler) - 2 years ago
I read on the author's website that the Badly Drawn Map is a real map, namely, the Mappa Mundi that is on display in - I think - Hereford. Dang. that's annoying. I totally thought it was the board game Risk.by Kathy - JAFF Library
Re: The Last Dragonslayer - 2 years ago
I'm really looking forward to getting this one. It's not available yet in the US although Fforde's twitter said it's been sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt here, so at some point... I'm so impatient I might have a friend ship one over from the UK.by Kathy - JAFF Library
Re: Shades of Grey - 2 years ago
I absolutely loved SoG, as did my husband. We loaned it to several friends, as well. I do think SoG was a quick read -- I think I got through it in only a few hours. Not an easy read, but quick. I simply couldn't put it down. Fforde has an incredible way of leading you from one thought to the next without taking a breath. By the time you've gone halfway through the novel, you realize you haven'tby Kathy - JAFF Library
Re: I don't know - 2 years ago
Yeah, pretty much everything in Fforde's oeuvre has some sort of sci-fi/fantasy-ish elements in it. Even the Nursery Crime Division books are fairly off the wall. I think, if I had to give him a genre, it would be "Weird"... which is probably why I like his work so much! I'd love the copy, but I've already got two :)by Kathy - JAFF Library
The new one? - 2 years ago
I saw he had one coming out, but that it was only available in Europe.by Kathy - JAFF Library
Re: Your favourite Valancourt moments (Udolpho, SPOILERS) - 2 years ago
This is what I get for reading the posts in chronological order from the earliest. I think I would have to agree with you on the Poem in the Stone thing. It's supremely ridiculous. However, I have to say that I also just got a kick every time Radcliffe described how he would moon about after Emily, sighing and leaning out of windows and such. I pretty much picture Valancourt as the effeminate soby Kathy - JAFF Library
Re: The Dreadful Black --- (Udolpho, SPOILERS) - 2 years ago
QuoteValencourt had fallen for the NIgerian Bank Scam Ok, just about busted a gut on that one. He was a perfect idiot, wasn't he?by Kathy - JAFF Library
Re: The Dreadful Black --- (Udolpho, SPOILERS) - 2 years ago
LOL. Actually, one of my co-workers and I were discussing this a week or so ago. I had lent her my copy of the book, and she had been appalled by the fact that she'd read all the way through the book for such a ridiculous tale. You can tell why JA made fun of it in NA. I can't even imagine the confession that led to such a penance that was so specific as to demand that kind of display instead ofby Kathy - JAFF Library
Ginormous - 5 years ago
Actually, the word was just added this past year to MW: New words 2007 (IMHO, thank heavens the OED is still holding out. Yes, I use the word frequently, but it seems too new and colloquial for me to be in a dictionary.)by Kathy - Tea Room
Re: Smart move. - 5 years ago
Excellent. Works lovely, btw. Thanks for all the hard work! (Redesigns are so much fun, aren't they?)by Kathy - Tea Room
Smart move. - 5 years ago
Aha. Got it. Is that an admin privilege or some button I haven't found yet? *so many buttons*by Kathy - Tea Room
Re: Same setup - 5 years ago
Almost figured this out. So, I have it set up so that the messages line up step-wise under the main post. However, this particular thread has all the posts hidden inside it. Why would that be?by Kathy - Tea Room