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I like this. Another! *Throws Tablet on floor a la Thor*

I have recently acquired a Tablet from my Dad so that I could work while traveling. The laptop is quite heavy to carry around on my dodgy back so it’s easier to take the Tablet. Except that I have no way of transferring photographs from my phone to the tablet, so I end up taking my laptop anyway, but in my suitcase rather than on my back.

I promise there’s a point to this rambling.

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I’ve been so neglectful recently…

But I do have a good reason. My phone – and thus my internet access – has been out of order for over three weeks now. This week I’ve been at home so I haven’t even got a WiFi connection to get my laptop on line with. It’s very frustrating.

But I’m back, at least for this evening. I’m visiting a dear friend of mine, who puts up with all sorts of nonsense from me including half finished sentences which become incoherent babble, complete inability to read body language, amazing ability to put my foot in my gob and my tendency to get distracted easily. I can’t imagine why, but there you go. I’m told I have one or two redeeming features though I don’t know what they are – my tea making skills are not among them, I know that for certain.

I may have been away from the blog but I haven’t been neglecting my reading. Or writing reviews. Unfortunately I can’t post two of the reviews yet;I have to wait until publication date. Such a pity as I would love to share my excitement about the two books with you all. I will be posting a version of a review for the third book I finished this week, a poetry collection I have reviewed for Book Hub, called Soaring on Wings of Word by Terry Michelsen. I shall post it just as soon as I’ve finished writing the version that you will read; I’ve already sent a review to Book Hub.

Coming up in October:

  • Several book reviews – I’ve got six e-books on the go at the minute as well as a couple of ‘proper’ books
  • I’m off to Nottingham again at the end of the month so another hotel review and gig review –
  • HIM at Rock City!
  • Possible review of ‘Fifth Estate’ – Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange and the whole Wiki leaks affair, should be interesting
  • A post about my new addiction to e-books since I got my hands on a Tablet.
  • Frankenstein – A recording of the play is being shown in cinemas at halloween – I am going!
  • Work and other irritations  – I’m doing a shedload of overtime to pay for my trip to Nottingham 😦
  • More prep for NaNoWriMo next month.

Hope you’re all well and had a good weekend, I’m going to finish that review.

Bye

Rose

Does Regency/Georgian era Steampunk exist?

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I quite like Steampunk as a genre and I’m reading a couple of Steampunk novels for review at the moment, but I’d like to know why they are all set in the mid to late nineteenth century and if there is anyone writing steampunk set in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries?
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