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What I've Read

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud In a slightly steampunky victorian/edwardian world where a generation or two previously ghosts and spirits suddenly became SERIOUS BUSINESS we have our girl!protag who is one of the bevvy of children/teens who have psychic gifts. Psychic youngsters, in the proud tradition of victorian ( Read more... )

What I Just Finished Reading

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

But really, couldn't stay away from a book with a hook like this one. Girl goes to party, passes out in tub, wakes up in morning to find WHOLE HOUSE slaughtered by vampires except herself. And her ex. who is bitten and starting to get major blood cravings but is also ( Read more... )

What I Just Finished Reading

I have finished just TWO BOOKS this week!

(That is because this was the week Dira's new Every Marine a Wolfbrother fic came out, and also thehoyden's new Sid/Geno and also some Teen Wolf longfic of fairly OK quality. I guess?)

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

Academic who gets hired to Shepard some time traveling tourists to ( Read more... )

Reading the list of ALA awardees other than Neil Gaiman and love this little bit:

Coretta Scott King Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults. “We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball,” .....

Three King Author Honor Books ere selected: “The Blacker the Berry” ( Read more... )

I've been to all my classes once now - I love what Tolkien and Old English look like they'll shape into .

I'm in the middle about Logic since I like my professor very much but I don't know If my brain will be much good at math-without-numbers. I laugh at myself as I type that, because what's always brought me down in math class hasn't been my ( Read more... )