The fact that my 2008 Reading Round Up post is still on the main page of my livejournal is a source of both amusement and some shame to me.

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There was a post recently on yuletide which was intended to serve as a clearing-house for fandom primers in the upcoming fic exchange - in other words, a place that people can look to if they want to know where to begin in researching a fandom. I started writing a post about Antal Szerb's Pendragon Legend, as I'm pretty certain I'm going to request it this ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from biggles_slash, apologies to those who follow both ( Read more... )

So, in the spirit of not-having-any-original-ideas-for-blog-content, I'm ganking the post I made about this time last year about my recent reading. This year I've been keeping a running note about which books I've read; I thought it'd be interesting both for the sake of working out how much I actually get through in a year (and comparing this total ( Read more... )

Since I've been rediscovering the joy of the way Algy actually has a character in the early books, I thought I'd put the second published Biggles book next on my reading list. I suspect that since it's set in central Brazil, it is sadly unlikely that there will be many squid attacks. (Though who am I to judge? Johnsiverse squid could probably drag ( Read more... )

Because I'm not procrastinating in the *least*.

(Format ganked from harriet_vane, who adapted it from http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/. It's a big ol' tag game of ganking.)

Best author(s) you discovered this yearTrouble is with this sort of thing is that I can never remember what I've read this year. Not that I've read an enormous amount, but - did I ( Read more... )

Okay, I know I've been trying to work on the early Biggles books lately, particularly for the sake of the precious Algy characterisation. And I know that this really isn't an early book. Nor does it feature a giant squid attack. But...I couldn't hold off on this one any longer. I just couldn't.

Biggles Buries A Hatchet (1958)which I have in a 1969 ( Read more... )

Because *you* demanded it!

Well, no, you didn't. pearbean and childofatlantis could be construed as having demanded the one where Algy or possibly Ginger got menaced by a giant squid or the like while hiding up a tree. (Algy was up the tree, that is. Or possibly Ginger. We couldn't remember. But presumably not the squid.) But I couldn't lay hands on that one immediately ( Read more... )

Haven't posted one of these for a while, but have been newly enthused by the approach of Yuletide (I'm well aware that I'm unlikely to get Gimlet-fic, but still...). So, for your delectation, and my potential fic-writing convenience, let's attack...

Gimlet Goes Again (1944)which I have in a beautiful first edition with dust jacket. *snuggles ( Read more... )

So, when I first started reading Eighth Doctor novels, I just read whichever ones I happened to pick up in bookshops. (Which meant that the first one I read was 'Camera Obscura', and boy, was *that* ever a weird place to start. Begin with 'who is this Sabbath bloke who is apparently so important?', continue on through 'so...he has the Doctor's ( Read more... )