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January Reading

2025-02-02T23:32:04Z

Okay, I am going to write a January books post even if I feel like I haven't finished anything.

Recent: Because I have in fact finished The Ironmaster's Tale, Swordheart, and Blood and Ember. Swordheart was on hold for most of December because the climax had a lot of emotions and I did not feel up to that. But I did in fact get myself to finish things, one of which was not a reread. Also some fic.

Current: I borrowed Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft from a friend and I have been reading so many game sourcebooks. Also Grizelda's Guide to Ghost Hunting, which I bought last October from Bundle of Holding and then completely forgot about, whoops. It's very good.

I am halfway through a bunch of things, some of which are getting regularly picked up and some not so much. Nature Tales for Winter Nights edited by Nancy Campbell has some nice sections.

I did in fact start Middlemarch, through the Serial Reader app, which has segments a little shorter than full chapters. However it's been a while since I caught up so we'll see. I do really like it, although in a "/o\ oh my godddddd Dorothea" sort of way.

Future: I have a book on Chinese knotwork, although currently my nonfiction reading brain is taken up with TTRPGs. And on the theme of ghosts I might reread The Bone Key by Sarah Monette.

Sometime this month my holds on Shoestring Theory by Mariana Costa and The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong should come in.

Oh, also I finished a Discworld ficlet yesterday.

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July and August Reading

2024-09-03T00:19:40Z

So for reasons that may be evident from my last post this summer was not a great time for reading or for anything else. Except crafts. Last week I did so much crochet I bruised my fingertip. (Tumblr quilt posts here and here)

Recent:
A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard started good but got more irritating over time, and I ended up skimming the last few chapters.

Very much liked Patchwork: A World Tour; I still really want a general history (specifically one starting before 1700), but this was very diverse and very pretty.

I read the first of Jewelle Gomez's Gilda Stories, which was very well done, but the author's note was more evidence that debates over moral storytelling are not limited to modern tumblr.

In August I finished another Biggles book, and now the next time I feel like Boy's Own Adventures I can get on to the resolution of Von Stalhein's arc and widen my fanfiction options.

And then I deliberately picked up Circle of Magic: Sandry's Book for comfort reading, which it provided. Also more craft books and more RWRB fanfic.

Current:
Just finished Agatha Christie's The Moving Finger in audiobook for more comfort reading. I remember liking but also being annoyed by a paranormal romance about how great small towns are, and it probably says something very clear about me that Horrible Things Happening in Nice Small Towns are, conversely, very comfortable.

Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times, because I wanted to reread a Discworld book and I knew I'd only read this one once ... but unfortunately there was a reason for that. Which of course is going to be true of anyone who wrote that many books over that much time.

Sarah Caudwell's The Shortest Way to Hades, which is great. One of the nice things about this series is that I can think things like, "Ah, what an interesting choice to refer to Euripides' Helen in this particular narrative. What might that imply for the main mystery plot?" (I'm less than halfway in and don't know if I'm guessing right yet.)

My current purse book is The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman, which will probably go slowly but which I am enjoying very much when I remember it's there.

And a facsimile copy of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Future:
The library for some reason hasn't got any of K. J. Charles' recent releases.

I have another Christie audiobook lined up. In print the Caudwell will probably take me a while yet. But it's occurred to me that autumn is coming up, and this year I want to actually read The Haunting of Hill House.

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Three Sentence Ficathon Recs

2023-03-02T21:47:41Z

Here is a very incomplete rec list for threesentenceficathon. The last post of my own fills is back here.

First of all, a few from 2022 since I had them sitting around: ( Read more... )

And this year’s. Both posts, random order, separated by fandom. Format is title [if any], fandom [if not specified above], characters, prompt.

( Narnia )

( Other )

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Recs for other people's 3SF fic!

2020-02-22T02:01:09Z

For those adverse to digging through fifty-something pages of comments. This is just for the first post (now closed to prompts but still open to fills and comments); I will hopefully get one for the second post (open for everything) up soon.

Neither list will be anything like exhaustive. Also, for some of these it may help if you click show thread from start for context.

( Turns out there are a lot of really good fics there! )

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Leaning more towards the 'abuse of punctuation' subgenre...

2020-02-17T21:28:09Z

More Three Sentence Ficlets!

( Original Science Fiction )

( Discworld )

( Mulan )

( Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead )

( Agent Carter )

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Rarewomen!

2014-05-11T16:22:57Z

So Flamebyrd wrote me a fic! It's called Challenging sweetheart heartlessly and it's adorable.

And here is mine:

Title: in her own defense
Author: Violsva
Fandom: Discworld, Hamlet
Rating: G
Warnings/Enticements: Mentions of Suicide, Crossover
Word Count: 1371
Summary: Susan is not good at sympathy, but luckily that’s not what’s needed.

On AO3.

Also a week ago I wrote a smutty Holmes/Watson/Mary drabble.

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