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Reading roundup (ARRR)

Sep 19, 2011 15:31

This is actually a Reading Roundup post, but since today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, certain duties must be discharged:

Ahoy, mateys, arrr, avast, etc.

I'd never encountered this before, so thanks to gehayi for linking it: Talk Like a Pirate Day Song by Tom Smith.

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I actually found it not only clever (the rhymes!) and funny (giggled out loud a few ( Read more... )

rachel morgan, a: kim harrison, ya, a: r.a. nelson, link, a: scott westerfeld, reading, date, comics, a: holly black

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ambyr September 21 2011, 20:08:19 UTC

Ooh, yes please on the Zacharov and Desi fic. Do you do Yuletide?

hamsterwoman September 21 2011, 22:15:30 UTC

Sadly, I don't write fic, merely gleefully consume it, at Yuletide and otherwise... But I'm glad I'm not alone in wanting to read Desi and Zacharov fic!

Damnedest thing... I get Error 500 whenever I try to view your LJ... but I peeked at your Dreamwidth, and, of course, I remember bouncing around upon the discovery that you were a Steven Brust fan in your sorting app, and we seem to have some overlap in reading, which is all to say, do you mind if I friend you?

ambyr September 22 2011, 02:22:54 UTC

Oh, feel free! I prefer reading on DW, but everything crossposts and I do look here too. My book review type stuff tends to happen over on Goodreads, though, which I'm guessing you don't use?

hamsterwoman September 22 2011, 20:19:20 UTC

Yay, friended! :)

I do have a Dreamwidth, but the cross-posting became a hassle after a while (since all my icons live here on LJ and I kept having to go back and edit them in) so I've let that lapse...

I have a Goodreads that I never use, but there seems to be a critical mass of flisters posting stuff there instead of on LJ, so I think I'll need to bite the bullet and make a fannish Goodreads...

ambyr September 22 2011, 20:32:52 UTC

Yeah, I can see the icons being a problem.

I originally thought of Goodreads just as way of tracking reading stats and remembering when my next book club meeting was, but a bunch of people from the Literature subforum of westeros.org hopped over, and now I can have actual conversations about books as I read them! It is kind of awesome. Even if they keep changing the interface, occasionally in baffling ways.

I could crosspost, but . . . work. Monthly roundups, maybe. Anyway, I am ambyr over there too if you want to friend me.

hamsterwoman September 22 2011, 21:40:31 UTC

I'm definitely not advocating extra work! :) Plus I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and at least read...

I wonder if it's possible to set up an RSS feed for whatever the Goodreads equivalent of a friendslist is... I find their interface(s) rather offputting :/ -- though possibly I would get used to it if I persevered instead of giving up right away

ambyr September 22 2011, 21:49:28 UTC

It does grow on you. (Kind of like fungus?)

I don't think you can set up an RSS feed for your friends updates, but you can certainly get individual RSS feeds for the people you want to follow. They're pretty ugly, though, IMO.

hamsterwoman September 22 2011, 22:44:57 UTC

Hmm, good to know...

Also, I just noticed you have ursulav art icons! :D

ambyr September 23 2011, 01:49:46 UTC

Many of them! Although more over on Dreamwidth. Also rather a lot of her art in my apartment. She's one of my favorites. (And her art was actually a Yuletide fandom last year, which was a lot of fun.)

hamsterwoman September 23 2011, 04:32:13 UTC

Oh, cool! I'm not nearly so hardcore a fan, but I do love her art, especially her assorted rodents. And recently L and I have been enjoying the Dragonbreath books, which we're finding equally delightful.

I remember seeing her art listed as a fandom in Yuletide and being much amused by that fact! :)

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