A little make-up gift for my LJ F-list for spamming the doll posts all this while: A list of my favourite novels, manga, online soundbytes, videos and fanworks of all time. The list will be organised by type, genre or fandom or defining characteristics, some of which may be vague, or anally specific. (Read: It'll be messy, please bear with it.) ( Read more... )

For the (very) second time since I began my love affair with World War fiction in den Ländern settings, I read of myself in the plot again!

Always as minor characters, of course - the first being the baby of a refugee family in A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell and once more, today, as a railway boy who was so unimpressionable that I can't say ( Read more... )