Now that the cat's out of the bag, these are my three Yuletide stories:

Title: Only a Doll
Fandom: Agnes Cecilia - Maria Gripe
Character: Hedvig Björkman
Pairing: Hedvig/Rose
Rating: G
Word count: 2,936
Summary: Hedvig's life over the decades, trying to find the thread that would let her set right what went wrong.

This was the original assignment, and I ( Read more... )

Hello Yuletide writer! Thank you so much for doing this! I hope the fandoms I've requested won't be too difficult for you - just enough to make the job interesting. :-)

I'm pretty easygoing when it comes to stories - any pairing and rating is fine, and I have a soft spot for character studies (which my requests probably show). I don't mind a bit of ( Read more... )

The other day, there was a question at a librarian mailing list I'm on, about the plot of a story that the customer claimed was a Jane Austen book, but which sounded more like a Regency romance. I got curious and started searching, but couldn't find it. (Someone else sussed out that it was Until You by Judith McNaught.) What I did find was a list ( Read more... )

I just finished reading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin. The funny thing is, when I first started reading it some months ago, I made it through a few pages, went "Ugh, way too much exposition," and put it away. It was only my desire to make my pile of unread books a little smaller that made me return to it. But now, when I read ( Read more... )

Catching Fire: Even better than the book, though I think my previous knowledge of the book enhanced the experience, which might be cheating. They managed to avoid the rehash and instead expand the universe. The casting is still great, even if Finnick doesn't quite have the sexual presence of the role (but then, he's not my physical type, which may ( Read more... )

It's been a while now since I re-read Taken at the Flood/There is a Tide (having previously read it in my teens and forgotten almost all of it), and I meant to make a post then, but I never did and I guess now is as good a time as any.

Simply put, this is where Agatha Christie's ideas of young attractive men broke my brain completely.

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I thought I'd make some posts on stuff I've read and seen lately, and to make sure I get some actual posting done, I'm making one post per subject.

I've read Kelly Link's Pretty Monsters, which in Sweden is published in two parts: Fel grav and Askungeleken. I absolutely loved it. She has a wonderfully surrealistic style, where anything can happens ( Read more... )

In the category of things I've done lately, I have read the entire Mediator series by Meg Cabot. Now, Meg Cabot is someone I always find simultaneously delightful and frustrating. Delightful because she's funny, with likeable characters who end up in adventures that are fun to read about. Frustrating, because somehow her books always end up as some ( Read more... )

The Story of Gösta Berling has never been my favourite of Selma Lagerlöf's novels, except in one respect: The description of Marianne Sinclair's detachment from her own actions. I read that as a teenager and went, "That's EXACTLY what it's like!" Of course, I tried then, and I try now, to fight that feeling, but it still pops up quite frequently ( Read more... )

A little post of things I have read and seen lately:

Forever, by Maggie Stiefvater.
I started reading Forever only a couple of days before an employee at Swedish zoo Kolmården was killed by wolves, so that was a weird disconnect to have, reading the book ( Read more... )