*pokes settings*

So I've noticed - and I have no idea where the causation may lie - that since I started using Dreamwidth I've also become more comfortable using Chrome. It's not going to replace Firefox as my default browser any time soon, but I can work with it pretty well.

In other news, one of my Christmas presents was a book called A Tale of Two Castles, by Gail Carson Levine. It is quite a fun book, with shape-shifting ogres and stained-glass-wing dragons who work as both roast-skewer vendors and detectives. The protagonist (Elodie, although she's more used to Lodie) is a twelve-year-old girl who keeps telling people she's fourteen, and is leaving home to apprentice herself in the city of Two Castles. Her parents want her to become a weaver, but she wants to be a mansioner - which is to say, an actress. Unfortunately, on arriving, she finds that free apprenticeships have just been abolished, and she'll have to pay in order to become someone's apprentice. And then a cat steals what money she has.

( From there... )

( But you know what I really like about this book? )