It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in November and December of 2019. Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.

The Edge of Worlds, by Martha Wells
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Today is Yuletide reveal day! Here is the story I wrote this year:

and wish her joy in the knowledge that her child will live (1745 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Children of the Star - Sylvia Louise EngdahlRating: Teen And Up Audiences ( Read more... )

I meant to do this yesterday, but I had social interaction comedown and ran out of spoons. So I will tell you about my Yuletide gift today instead!

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You and Me, Alone Together (1228 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Books of the Raksura - Martha WellsRating: Teen And Up Audiences ( Read more... )

Well, at least my Yuletide fic is true to source canon ( Read more... )

Things I have done Thursday and Friday:

1. Wrote and mailed all my holiday cards. (No cute doodles this year, alas. I am tired and my hands are sore.)

2. Bought gifts for Dad, Mom, and Nick. Also bought a birthday present for Mom. As part of this project, I signed up for a $1.99 one-week trial of Amazon Prime, which I will promptly unsubscribe ( Read more... )

I got my Yuletide assignment, which is (predictably) for a fandom I offered on a wave of "oh hey I remember loving that when I was a teen!" emotion and now am kind of going "...oh shit I haven't read the source for twenty-five years, thank god there's an ebook version now because it was SUPER out of print the last time I checked and I have SO MUCH ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi, and thank you in advance for writing a story for me! I'm pretty easy to please -- unless you write a context-free sex scene, I'll be thrilled just to get a fic in one of the fandoms I asked for. *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version. (I am sorry for the tl;dr, but I like to ( Read more... )

1. I made it through work today without A) falling asleep on my keyboard (an occasional risk with cold medications) or B) sounding TOO gross TOO often when blowing my nose, though there were definite moments of "oh gods how can so much snot fit in a human body?!" Ugh ( Read more... )

Things in no particular order:

1. More car trouble struck this weekend, by which I mean that sometime between when I got home from work on Friday and when I got home from work on Saturday (I didn't drive Saturday, because I got a pre-work haircut and for various logistical reasons that works better when I walk and catch a bus than when I drive), ( Read more... )

I have already read through... I think 90% of the Raksura fanfic on AO3 (don't talk to me about spoilers; if a book can be ruined by spoilers what's the point of it anyway?) and so far I am extremely disappointed that no one seems to yet have written the one AU I desperately want: namely, what if Sorrow and/or some of Moon's faux-siblings survived ( Read more... )