SNOW!

It snowed all day yesterday and must have kept going all night and it is still quite heavy now and yet for some reason there isn't more than about two inches on the ground. This is still the most snow we have had for years - my seven year old has never seen enough snow for snowballs before, he was SO excited - and from what they were saying on the radio it sounds as if London has ground to a complete halt. I can't help thinking that places where it really snows a lot must be laughing their snow chains off at the drama we make about it.

City of Bones by Cassandra Cla(i)re

First things first - I really enjoyed this book. I'm pretty certain I'd never have read it if it hadn't been by CC but I didn't want to spend any money on it either! When it shouted at me from the teen section in the library I picked it up without hesitation and I'm glad I did. It was easy to read, kept up a good pace throughout and I liked all the characters.

Apart from the Potter series and my failed attempts to read Lord of the Rings (which is quite different anyway) this is the only 'fantasie' book that I've read so there were things which could be standards of the genre but which in all honesty seemed to me distractingly like things in the Potterverse. For example - ordinary people being called 'mundies'. For all I know using the term 'mundane' for non-magical people is rife in this sort of book; inemmagrant01's 'Left my Heart' American wizards use this term instead of 'muggles'. Anyway there were any number of things like that which shrieked 'Potter' at me but which may not be unique to that world.

I know it is not an original idea that the male lead in CoB (Jace) is DV!Draco. ( rambling and maybe spoilers )

Any way that's just my opinion.

First ever Full-length Fic

Title:Indian Summer
Author:vickyducky
Word count:10,110
Characters/pairings:H/D
Warnings: (Immediately) post-epilogue. Male/Male relationship. Infidelity. Sexual swear words. Sexual situations (but the sex is off-screen). All characters are over 18.
Authors Notes: are at the end because of spoilers.
rating R(but probably only just)
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Summary Harry is feeling low after seeing Albus off to Hogwarts for the first time. A chance meeting with Draco Malfoy changes everything.


( Indian Summer, part one )

Indian Summer part 2

(no subject)

Title:Indian Summer
Author:vickyducky
Word count:10,110
Characters/pairings:H/D
Warnings: (Immediately) post-epilogue. Male/Male relationship. Infidelity. Sexual swear words. Sexual situations (but the sex is off-screen). All characters are over 18.
Authors Notes: are at the end because of spoilers.
rating R
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Summary Harry is feeling low after seeing Albus off to Hogwarts for the first time. A chance meeting with Draco Malfoy changes everything.

Indian Summer, part one

( Indian Summer, part two )