I've been recommending gen stories at
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A lot of my recs feature women in meaty roles because that's what I like reading, but here are six stories about women -- being friends, being mothers (or step-mothers, surrogate mothers, grandmothers, daughters, granddaughters...), in the workplace and out of it -- all being awesome in their own ways. Recs in my top ten are indicated with '***'.

( 6 recs in Bible, Dark is Rising, Earthsea, Galaxy Quest, Maltese Falcon & Sound of Music )

Dark is Rising

Watch for the Greenwitch, by Selden'In the light from the bonfire the Greenwitch rose up, tall and ragged against the sky, like something from long ago. Not the fine past of the grail, of long spears and iron, thorny, intricate poetry and patterns. Not even the past, thought Jane, of neat sharp flints laid out on red velvet under ( Read more... )

A long rare-lit selection. The Vorkosigan story is from an earlier year, before altariel tempted me in

( AS Byatt, Cadfael, Narnia, Dark is Rising, Diana Wynne Jones, Lord Peter Wimsey, Georgette Heyer, Shakespeare, Jane Eyre, Neil Gaiman, Vorkosigan, Watership Down )

( American Gods, Dark is Rising, Dracula, Earthsea, Jeeves & Wooster, The Name of the Rose, Narnia, Watership Down )

The Dark is Rising

A surprisingly large fandom these days, though 99% of it seems to be Will/Bran. Thanks to the ever knowledgeable altariel1 for putting me onto the second of these authors.

Protection, by Sheldrake

'At home in Bucks there was an old saying: it's not spring unless you can set foot on twelve daisies at once.' Good use of detail, ( Read more... )