Day 2 - May 10, 1908, Cairo (Indiana Jones)

Title: May 10, 1902, Cairo
Author: alexcat
Fandom: Indiana Jones
Type: Gen
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own Indy, nor do I profit from the use of the character.
Archive: Alex’s Story Book
Author’s Note: This is for September.
Spoilers: YES, for the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Summary: Indy’s granddaughter finds his letters.

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May 10, 1908
Dear Jonathan,

We are in Africa! It’s hot here and tomorrow we’re going to the pyramids. Miss Seymour will be going with me. Father has a meeting somewhere like he always does and I’m really excited but I miss Indiana. I wish he could have come with us on this trip.

We went to England first and got Father’s old tutor, Miss Seymour. She’s really old and very strict but I like her too. She knows even more than Father does and sometimes she even argues with him and you know how Father is always right! She sure does make me study a lot though.

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I waited until after we saw the pyramids to finish the letter. Miss Seymour and I got stranded out there when our guide left us because he got into an argument with Miss Seymour and we met this man named Mr. Lawrence. He rescued us, sort of. He said he’d show me Mr. Carter’s excavations tomorrow. Some of the men here are very scary and they say there is a curse on the tomb! I guess we’ll find out.

Please check on Indiana for me.

Your friend,
Henry Jones

( My grandfather evidently helped solve a murder on the dig though he didn’t detail it in his letters to his friend in Princeton. It turns out that Mr. Lawrence was THE Lawrence of Arabia! Who knew these things about Grandfather Jones?)

16/100 Things: The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice
(The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release)

These three are on my hated them list. I never loved Anne Rice’s writing that much to begin with. I read and reread Interview with the Vampire over and over before I decided that I liked it. You must understand that there just wasn’t much vampire anything out there at the time so I read it. I liked vampires.

Anyway, back to Beauty. I read them in the early 2000’s. Someone recommended them and like an idiot, I bought them. For some reason, reading these books made me want a bath. They were such a turn off. They weren’t sexy or hot. They were nauseating and disturbing. I wanted to rewrite them and murder Alexi.

Let me backtrack a bit. I do not like BDSM. Pain is not fun and being tied up by anyone just makes me insane and angry. I’d probably kill anyone who did those things to me again. My life is painful enough without help. I have tried to understand this and as the years pass, the whole thing has left me cold. I don’t understand anyone who lives this way and I certainly don’t want to waste any of my life reading Anne Rice’s take on it.

Anne Rice is a ponderous and pompous ass at the best of times and this is not her best work. These books are as badly written as bad fanfiction though not as bad as 50 Shades of Grey, nothing is THAT bad. Maybe if you like being a pony, you’d like them. *SHUDDERS* Her other 'erotic' fiction is as unsexy and stupid too.

I have tried to think of something else to rec in it’s place but the only other ones I’ve read were Story of O, which was almost as stupid as these are and Fanny Hill, which I don’t remember at all.

Maybe I’m just not the girl to read BDSM stuff!