It's been a long time...

[heliopausa]

I've been three weeks away, pretty much, during which I desperately tried (and failed) to get everything done back home - the businessy stuff and the self-care stuff and the family stuff and the friends stuff, and of course also failed completely to keep up with things happening on DW and LJ, or on fanfic places anywhere. Sorry if I've seemed to be ignoring everything; I'll be reading up on the journals I missed bit by bit this next day or so.
I did manage to put up a couple of stories into the Kangarooverse collection being curated by Syrena_of_the_Lake - a collection which grew from rthstewart's 3SF - and also to post on ffnet a story which had been put up on archiveofourown during NFE 2014, but have done nothing else fannish at all.

Unless reading three-quarters of The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead counts?  What a grim, fascinating (but very badly edited) novel that is!  I was reminded a lot of both Sons and Lovers (for the brutal hatchet-job anger at the father - but then there's lots of books running that line, I suppose) and of The Getting of Wisdom (for the prickly, uncomfortable young girl protagonist) - and was intrigued by the manipulative, combative, deadly earnest "playing" with language throughout - the book is in a sense about the intense power of language, especially in family power struggles.  But overall, it's a mess of a book, I thought - very ill-served by its editor(s)/publisher. 
Not that I have any right to be making a judgement, because I didn't finish it - I would have liked to, but there was just too much else going on.

postscript:  I tried to crosspost this to LJ - does anyone know how come this feature - crossposting - doesn't work any more?

Comments

[redsnake05]

I'm sorry to hear you didn't get all the things you wanted done. I find just the travelling itself to be tiring enough that I never get through my list, but your trip sounds rather more epic than mine tend to be.

[heliopausa]

It was a bit frenetic, all right. But today I'm back in relative calm. :)

I like your icon very much! It's highly inspiring.

[redsnake05]

Thank you! I love all my tea icons. I need some suitable chocolate biscuit ones, as they are nearly as soothing.

[marmota_b]

I have no idea how it's supposed to work, but right above yours there's a post on my reading page that has a little "crossposts" link at the end, so presumably it still works in some way?

[heliopausa]

Thank you! Yes, it does, in some way. I'm starting to wonder if there's a problem with my browser or something. ("The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars..." :) i.e. I should stop blaming DW,and look closer to home for the problem.) Maybe I need to erase things I have as settings and start again?