Books!
I think I've earned another geek points badge, I've read an actual physical Doctor Who novel at last. It's The Year of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman and it was more than usually hard to get hold of. I think it may be a touch rare because it doesn't appear in any of the torrents of Doctor Who e-books I've looked at. Eight Fitz and Anji are having a nice holiday on a colony world and there are these native animals that are amazingly like tigers. Just guess what else is interesting about them.
Plot happens.
Eight happens to be freakishly good at the violin and other stringed instruments including that cyber thing Bill Bailey plays. I thought that was a cool personal interests crossover moment.
I was pleasantly surprised tat I had no head-desky moments.
Ironic, that the novels have less bad crack in them than the actual TV series.
I read so much fic that I'm used to it there. But Doctor Who novels are weird it I think about it too long. Just being what they are is weird. I dunno, it's a strangely long a format for doctor who so it's doesn't sit right, plus there's the whole media-crossover barrier. I still find it a bit freaky for visual things to have written equivalents.
Eh.
Reread The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones and Black Maria also by DWJ but that I'd never read before. How did this happen? I do not know either.