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(written Jan 12th and backdated)
Comments on The Comfortable Courtesan Jan 5th to Jan 9th in no particular order, because dammit, I’m sick and I’m going to talk about things that make me happy. (And also because I was for a while too sick to write anything, ugh.)
I bet G- once offered to give Sandy fencing lessons and Sandy turned bright red and stammered a lot and G- went OH.
I’ve got such clear mental images of the characters in this - not their faces (I'm faceblind) but their shapes and the way they move. Some of it is definitely from the descriptions, like Sophy nervous and sitting on the edge of her seat. And mostly it’s just the pictures are better in my head than in visual media.
Lady T- is great but I don’t see her son’s affairs going anywhere she’ll approve of. But I’m glad she’s comfortable enough with C- to make jokes.
But Sophy is great and Matt Johnson is very good at his job and Miss S- is amazing, go Miss S-. (Although I wish she didn’t have reason to be quite so certain that men are only interested in her for her fortune.)
I have been hoping that she’s a lesbian, but I would absolutely make an exception for Matt Johnson. Although I don’t know how much he is looking for anything like that; he seems to be quite happy solving crimes and hanging out with Sandy and doesn’t really want anything more out of life except (very respectfully, of course) more sex with C-. But he might. (I should go back and see if I can find the bit where he’s talking to C- about dreaming of Sandy, that was great. And maybe I could write casefic.)
(I don’t see any chemistry at all with Mr L- - I mean, companionate marriages are very nice and I hope they can talk about scholarship and literature together whatever happens, but.)
I’m interested that when Mrs D- K- gets the means to write letters she just writes to C- (plot-convenient as it is) - she really doesn’t have anyone else, then.
I bet G- once offered to give Sandy fencing lessons and Sandy turned bright red and stammered a lot and G- went OH.
I’ve got such clear mental images of the characters in this - not their faces (I'm faceblind) but their shapes and the way they move. Some of it is definitely from the descriptions, like Sophy nervous and sitting on the edge of her seat. And mostly it’s just the pictures are better in my head than in visual media.
Lady T- is great but I don’t see her son’s affairs going anywhere she’ll approve of. But I’m glad she’s comfortable enough with C- to make jokes.
But Sophy is great and Matt Johnson is very good at his job and Miss S- is amazing, go Miss S-. (Although I wish she didn’t have reason to be quite so certain that men are only interested in her for her fortune.)
I have been hoping that she’s a lesbian, but I would absolutely make an exception for Matt Johnson. Although I don’t know how much he is looking for anything like that; he seems to be quite happy solving crimes and hanging out with Sandy and doesn’t really want anything more out of life except (very respectfully, of course) more sex with C-. But he might. (I should go back and see if I can find the bit where he’s talking to C- about dreaming of Sandy, that was great. And maybe I could write casefic.)
(I don’t see any chemistry at all with Mr L- - I mean, companionate marriages are very nice and I hope they can talk about scholarship and literature together whatever happens, but.)
I’m interested that when Mrs D- K- gets the means to write letters she just writes to C- (plot-convenient as it is) - she really doesn’t have anyone else, then.