A little break (also some links!)

I’m going to be moving over the next few days (yep, again), so the sensible thing to do is to go on an official blogging hiatus for a little while. This time I’m not moving to a different part of the world, only to a house about ten minutes away from my current one, but the hassle of having to pack and unpack is still there. Also, the move is kind of a Big Deal to me emotionally because in a way this feels like my first real adult home – the first one that isn’t shared, or a tiny attic, or very obviously student-y. Also, it has wall-embedded shelves and a garden and I’m kind of in love with it. If everything continues to go well this is a place where M and I can stay for the foreseeable future, and it will be really nice to finally have a home we don’t think of as temporary.

In addition to that, I’ll be visiting my parents for the last ten days of February, which might get in the way of my coming back to blogging sooner rather than later. On the one hand, this might be a good time to relax and get some reading and writing done; on the other hand, it’s likely that the time will pass much quicker than I anticipate and that I won’t be getting much done at all. I guess we’ll see. Before I go, here are some interesting links:

• One of my favourite bloggers is back after some time away – hooray! You should all subscribe to The Hypeless Romantic if you haven’t already.
  
  
• Mark your calendars: Diana Wynne Jones month is coming in March.
  
  
• I absolutely loved Rohan Maitzen’s recent post on Richard III and history in general:
  

  There’s something both thrilling and poignant about the spectacle of this broken body. It’s one thing to debate the theoretical value or responsibilities of historical fiction to the past. It’s another thing to see that past resurrected in all its tangible but enduring fragility. Difficult as our access to it may be, and impossible as it may be to reduce it to a single story, there is something that really happened. Now, here in front of our eyes, is, quite literally, the skeleton which has been fleshed out in so many memorable ways. I find it stunning: it gives me goose-bumps.

• The other day Jeanne shared Billy Collins’ poem “The Lanyard” and wrote about her experiences as a mother. I found her post incredibly moving but couldn’t find a way to say so that wasn’t awkward – so, in the spirit of showing appreciation, I’m sharing it with you today.
  
  
• yay, Victoria at Eve’s Alexandria loved Seraphina! And, unsurprisingly, she wrote one of my favourite reviews of it to date.
  
  
• Lastly, some of you might want to know that my discussion of The Lizzie Bennet diaries with Renay is now up. The post doesn’t cover the most recent happenings in the series; however, the comments do, and you could always tell us what you think there.

I’ll see you all in March (if not before), when you can expect me to bore you all to death with countless pictures of the new house and bookshelves. You have been warned.