sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2014-08-12 06:47 pm
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We still do a few things in Boston, Franklin

We have a bed. Our futon is now on a frame. It is an actual futon frame, not a several-times-handed-down slat bed or a jerry-rigged situation with plywood. It was immediately comfortable when we fell over onto it. I don't think it's only because I've been awake now for twelve hours with about an hour of sleep before that, either. In celebration: [livejournal.com profile] strange_selkie directed me to this cover. Years of exposure to 1776 conditioned my instant response:



FRANKLIN THEN ELECTRIFIED THE PARTY WITH HIS MIRACULOUS LIGHTNING ROD, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
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skygiants: Princess Tutu, facing darkness with a green light in the distance (i cannot tell a lie)

[personal profile] skygiants 2014-08-12 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
....I feel like I must read this book.
sovay: (Morell: quizzical)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
....I feel like I must read this book.

I am terribly afraid it will never live up to its cover, but if you do, PLEASE TELL THE INTERNET.

[edit] [livejournal.com profile] vanguardcdk has provided compellng information that it just might do that!

As more murders follow, Franklin sets out in pursuit of a diabolical killer. The trail will lead to blasphemies, debaucheries, desecrations--in short, to the lewd rites of the Hellfire Club!

PLEASE TELL THE INTERNET!
Edited (new information has come to light) 2014-08-13 02:07 (UTC)
genarti: River from Firefly making a face. ([ff] o rly)

[personal profile] genarti 2014-08-13 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Goodness gracious sakes alive.

That sure is a cover, right there.
sovay: (Morell: quizzical)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That sure is a cover, right there.

I did not think anything like it existed. I don't think I can be faulted for that.
gwynnega: (Barry Ryan)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2014-08-12 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
::boggling forever at that cover::

Oh, and congratulations on the futon frame!

::goes back to boggling::
sovay: (Claude Rains)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-12 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
::boggling forever at that cover::

I'm sorry, it needed to be shared.

Oh, and congratulations on the futon frame!

Thank you!

::goes back to boggling::

THAT'S FAIR.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2014-08-12 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, bed!!!;))

As for the latter...yes, unfortunately, I do.:(
sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, bed!!!

It has been stupidly complicated to get a permanent bed into this house. I am really looking forward to sleeping on this one. It had better not presage any ironic reversals of fate, is all I'm saying!

As for the latter...yes, unfortunately, I do.

(I can't decide if I am hoping more that this book is a perfectly functional period mystery that got stuck with an amazingly trashy cover or that it is as amazingly trashy as its cover. I feel like either one, considered from certain directions, would be a win.)

[identity profile] vanguardcdk.livejournal.com 2014-08-13 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Having looked this up on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Hellfire-Club-Donald-Zochert/dp/0140055045) obviously we need to do this in next year's Summer Mysteries...
sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
As more murders follow, Franklin sets out in pursuit of a diabolical killer. The trail will lead to blasphemies, debaucheries, desecrations--in short, to the lewd rites of the Hellfire Club!

OH MY GOD IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE AS GOOD AS ITS COVER.
beowabbit: (People: Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet)

[personal profile] beowabbit 2014-08-13 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Where’s the Like button on this thing?

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-08-13 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha, yes, I know what you mean :D

Congratulations on the bed!
sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha, yes, I know what you mean

It was seriously the first thing I thought.

Congratulations on the bed!

Thank you!

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2014-08-13 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I thought he was sliding down a bannister at first, until I noticed the zigzags.
sovay: (Claude Rains)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
I thought he was sliding down a bannister at first, until I noticed the zigzags.

"Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life . . ."

(help me out here, [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel)

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2014-08-14 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
That's Tom Lehrer, right? You've heard of his recent email granting permission to sample him in a hip hip song? (http://energy1037.cbslocal.com/2012/06/13/2-chainz-reveals-dope-sample-rapper-roasted-by-humorist/)
beowabbit: (Me: resting in sionnagh's back yard in K)

[personal profile] beowabbit 2014-08-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Hurray for bed! May you sleep soundly!

Also, thanks for the book cover. I ordered the thing. I’ll let you know whether it’s epically awesome or merely incredibly awesome if I ever get around to actually reading it.
sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-13 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hurray for bed! May you sleep soundly!

Thank you!

Also, thanks for the book cover. I ordered the thing. I’ll let you know whether it’s epically awesome or merely incredibly awesome if I ever get around to actually reading it.

You are either taking a bullet for the team or the luckiest person in these comments. Godspeed either way!
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