Pedagogical woe

[tarigwaemir]

Stanley Hall on the Feast of St. Gerard of Brogne

Paraphrase of an answer I saw on a quiz: "If it is Y-linked, then ONLY males would have it and in exceptional cases, females would express the trait."

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I read an ebook version of Heyer's Cotillion, which was extremely enjoyable and actually had a relationship dynamic I found to be healthy. Amazing! Thoroughly charmed by Freddy (I'm weak to all Regency dandies) and Kitty, who was a little annoying in the beginning, definitely developed into a wonderful female protagonist. I've been meaning to read Heyer for ages, and I did read The Unfinished Clue, which was in the pile of books that lazulisong sent to me as an exchange. But it's very difficult to find her in bookstores around here, so I finally resorted to looking for ebooks on IRC (thanks to fable, who told me about the right channel to frequent). Would someone recommend some titles to read next?

Please, oh please, minor demi-deity of academia, let me see some colonies with transformed bacteria containing my ligated plasmids tomorrow.

Met flonnebonne on Thursday! We had lunch at a West African restaurant in downtown Berkeley. She's just as funny in person as she is on screen. ^_^

Last day to sign up for bibliophages if you haven't done so already!

Yours &c.

Post-script: My father asked me to translate this sentence: "Don't get stuck on the 'Dot'." What on earth does that mean? "Don't get stuck in a rut" or "don't forget to see the forest for the trees"?

Post-post-script: mistful finished Drop Dead Gorgeous!

Comments

[issen4.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you got into Heyer! Yay! (Though I still can't get into her mysteries.)

Definitely read These Old Shades and Devil's Cub, which are linked. And of course The Grand Sophy and i>Frederica and Arabella... oh, just read all of them. ^_^ Her research is near-impeccable and the period setting is excellent (this goes for her histories too).

[troisroyaumes]

Yes, I'm so impressed by her knowledge of Regency slang. *_* I probably will end up reading all of them, but it's nice to know where to start. Think I'll tackle These Old Shades and Devil's Cub next as you recommended. Thanks!

[meril.livejournal.com]

My favorite Heyer is The Masqueraders, which is a Georgian romance. Also, it has crossdressing.

[troisroyaumes]

Will add it to my to-read list. Thanks!

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

My two other favourite books by Heyer are Frederica and Devil's Cub. I didn't like These Old Shades as much as most people seem to, but it's mostly to do with the relationship dynamic. -- Oh, and I like Sylvester as well! That's about a female writer. :D

[troisroyaumes]

Ah, thanks for the rec. I'm reading These Old Shades, and yes, not too enamored of the main characters, but I'm still enjoying the story. ^_^

[athousandwinds.livejournal.com]

Cotillion! Yes, and I love that it doesn't really become clear that Freddy is the hero until about halfway through and Camille and Olivia being fluffily endearing idiots and Freddy's heroic sacrifice of Going Sightseeing.

[troisroyaumes]

Hahaha, yes, Freddy's horror at the British Museum and his insistence on speaking to his father about it! Plus, I liked that he was mostly known for being agreeable and a good dancer, rather than a flirt or a wit. ^_^ Camille's melodramatic swooning over Olivia was awesome too. <3

[flonnebonne]

Yo, what up! I forgot to ask you something when we met up, something I've been wondering for a long, long time...what does your username mean, and how do you pronounce it?

I've read Cotillion and one other Heyer book! Back in high school...maybe ten years ago or so (weeps for forgotten youth). I do remember liking Freddy. Doesn't he punch the cad-type guy at the end of the book?

[troisroyaumes]

Ahh, forgot to reply to this comment. My username is a mishmash of words taken from the Silmarillion glossary. tari = queen, gwae = wind, mir = jewel...yes, you may go ahead and laugh. My only defense is that I made it up when I was twelve. >_>;;

Freddy does get to punch the bad guy at the end! It's quite awesome. Especially because he hastily says that he's not going to try that again. ^_^

Also, just to say again, it was great to see you! <3

[flonnebonne]

Hee, I've read the Silmarillion twice so I'm not going to laugh. I never had much interest in Tolkien's languages, though, so you beat me there. Is it pronounced terry-gway-meer?

I think a lot of us secretly want our men to go and punch jackasses so we don't have to do it ourselves. It hurts your knuckles to punch people, ya know? And they might punch back.

It was great to see you too! I'm just sad it was so short! :)