Fannish Catch-up: Snowflake Challenge, Fandom Stocking, Miss Peregrine's movie, and Killjoys s2

[hamsterwoman]

Wrapping up the Snowflake Challenge:

Day 14: Go forth and commit an act of kindness.

I took the opportunity to fill a couple more random fandom_stockings on that day, and calling it done.

Day 15: In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist/circle

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I have read it, and liked it quite a lot / definitely recommend it. It's a book better read unspoiled, I think, so I won't link back to my write-up, but: it's a quiet, slow book that I hesitate to really pin to a genre, even though it fits within my general envelope of Victorian/gaslight fantasy reading binge last year -- it feels more like magical realism rather than outright fantasy to me, for some reason. The writing is lovely, and accomplishes some impressive things, I thought. There is one central aspect of the book that I'm still not sure if was a feature or a bug. It made for a lot of discussion when I read it, and I'm still very much of two minds about it, whether it contributes to the complexity of the book in interesting ways or represents an unintentional falling short of what the author was going for. But I definitely think it's a book well worth reading if you're OK with subtle characterization and a plot that's very, very secondary to everything else that's going on. (There is a plot, and it's even well done, I thought. But this is not a book I would read for the plot.)

[asthenie_vd]

Oh, if the characters are good I don't mind if the plot isn't captivating. I'll probably read this one, thanks. :)

[hamsterwoman]

I hope you enjoy it! I would love to hear your thoughts when/if you do read it.