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posted by [personal profile] mermaiden at 12:32pm on 19/05/2010 under , ,
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Terry Pratchett, Christopher Penczak, Madeleine L'Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Tamora Pierce

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The Chronicles of Narnia. :) All of them, multiple times over.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
I like prepositions. *pets them*

Read more... )
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posted by [personal profile] mermaiden at 11:38am on 18/05/2010 under ,
My incredibly dear friend Gemma ([livejournal.com profile] elfinecstasy) is an amazing author. Her latest book, Temple of the Twelve - Volume 2, Flight of Colors came out last Saturday. Her publisher has urged her to try and get to Amazon.com bestseller status today, meaning that she has to sell ten copies on Amazon today. Her writing is beautiful, her message pure inspiration and spirituality--I highly recommend her books! If you'd like to support an amazing author in her life's dream, I urge you to buy a copy of Temple of the Twelve - Volume 2. It can stand alone from Volume 1 (meaning you don't have to have read the first book to get the message and magic out of the second one~ <3).

Click here to order the book!
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posted by [personal profile] mermaiden at 12:22pm on 16/04/2010 under , , , ,
"Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?"

In her eagerness she did not realize how queer the words would sound and that they were not the ones she had meant to say. Mr. Craven looked quite startled.

"Earth!" he repeated. "What do you mean?"

"To plant seeds in--to make things grow--to see them come alive," Mary faltered.

He gazed at her a moment and then passed his hand quickly over his eyes.

"Do you--care about gardens so much," he said slowly.

"I didn't know about them in India," said Mary. "I was always ill and tired and it was too hot. I sometimes made littlebeds in the sand and stuck flowers in them. But here it is different."

Mr. Craven got up and began to walk slowly across the room.

"A bit of earth," he said to himself, and Mary thought that somehow she must have reminded him of something. When he stopped and spoke to her his dark eyes looked almost soft and kind.

"You can have as much earth as you want," he said. "You remind me of some one else who loved the earth and things that grow. When you see a bit of earth you want," with something like a smile, "take it, child, and make it come alive."


(from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Our cucumber seedlings~


A few more~ )
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Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardour of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet overpowering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips travelled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, "You are mine, you shall be mine, and you and I are one for ever."
(From Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)

~*~


I've always been obsessed with vampires, specifically the older versions of the stories, like Dracula, the myth of the creatures of the night, mostly the European folk tales that inspired our now-a-day versions of werewolves and vampires. I know the long, somewhat questionable pedigree that has produced what we know today, and it's utterly fascinating to me, how they evolved, what they came from. For example--most people accused of lycanthropy were the world's first serial killers, and really not those suffering from a monthly fur growth-age. Which, you know, makes it a lot less fanciful and happy, but there you go. XDDDD

However, my favorite of ALL of these is the novel (though, really, it's more of a novella) entitled Carmilla. It was written by Le Fanu some twenty years before Dracula, and is the inspiration for Stoker's epic. Stoker's vampire is the one that everyone knows, the vampire that hollywood cashed in on in the twenties, thirties and forties (and hell, still today), but Carmilla got pushed to the wayside. Some argue that her story is less known because she was a woman.

But the truth of the matter is that I believe the story is not well known...because she was lesbian.

The book is lesbian. There's no two ways about it. The way it's described, the deep passion between Mircalla (Carmilla) and Laura is off the freakin' charts.

The story? Read more... )
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posted by [personal profile] mermaiden at 08:30am on 02/02/2010 under , , , , , , ,
- We're back from our perfect, beautiful, rejeuvanating, magical, completely-and-utterly-wonderful vacation in Florida~ I will write everything out, in all its happiness, hopefully later today or tomorrow. As always, any time spent with Rachel is that blessed, physical reminder of our soul family, the joy and hearts we share together...the complete happiness~

- And OH. MY GODS. YOU GUYS. The ritual on Saturday was the most magical I have ever done. I know I always say that, but it was--I can't wait to share~ <33333

- Sadly, I got a bit sick towards the end of vacation, and am now plunged headlong into a rather icky sickness. I took today off from work, like yesterday, to try to recoup...here's hoping~

- As a side note...every year, I make this sort of declaration, and I'm making it again this year. XD I always forget that Oceanid.org expires on January 30th, and did again this time around. This means that all of my emails to oceanid@oceanid.org that were new were probably lost. I get an obscene amount of email, both regular and spam alike, while on vacation, and I'm so unhappy that I might have lost something important from you! If you emailed me, please re-email it to sarah.e.diemer@gmail.com. I renewed the domain today, but my hosting is a bit slow [notoriously so], so it should be a day or two until I can access my oceanid.org email again, so if you have anything to email, please send it to the GMail address. Thank ye kindly~ <33333

- Suffice it to say that I have a week's worth of catching up to do...but not right now. I'm retiring to bed with L. J. Smith's The Secret Circle: The Initiation based on Rachel's witchy recommendation, and my wife's singular awesomeness (of getting a book pressie for me last night because I didn't feel good. ;-; I love you, baby~). I finished the second half of Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Choice, and read all of Trickster's Queen yesterday...the best thing in the world, I think, is a day curled up in bed with kitties, a rather sleepy Collie pup, tea and books~ Which is exactly how I'm going to spend today. With hopefully a perk-up later this evening for an Imbolc ritual~ <3

Love to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And to those who celebrate, blessed, beautiful Imbolc! <333

Me, at the water's edge at Blowing Rocks--taken by Rachel~ <33333
Mood:: 'sick' sick

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