A literary kindred spirit.

From the Shelf Awareness interview with Tasha Alexander:

Book that changed your life:

Every book leaves a mark on you. But the ones (yes, I'm incapable of picking just one) that brought about the most obvious change in my life are the Amelia Peabody novels by Elizabeth Peters. I'd fallen madly in love with them and was tearing through them one after another. When I ran out and realized I'd have to wait an entire year for the next installment to be published, I was dismayed and wondered if I should try writing something of my own to help the time pass more quickly. Soon thereafter (with another push from Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night), I started to work on And Only to Deceive.

I am so very cranky today.  I very much wish I could be curled up in bed with the second Lady Emily Ashton book.

As I can't be there, I will at least fill out an ILL form requesting said book.

And then I will commence waiting.

SIGH.