30 days of female awesome, Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book

Maree Mallory from Deep Secret

There were two characters neck-to-neck on this one, both written by the recently departed, much beloved Diana Wynne Jones. One was Sophie Hatter of Howl's Moving Castle, the other was, as stated above, Maree Mallory of Deep Secret. Both of ( Read more... )

I guess I should 'fess up about my Yuletide fic. It's really pretty obviously written by me, though I doubt any of you guessed it; but that's mainly because I doubt any of you read it. ;-) But that's okay, I pretty much knew I was cutting my potential readership in half by giving an advance peek to three of the DWJ fans on my flist ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Goat

Thank you so much for doing this! I'm so looking forward to the surprise I'll get on Christmas Day.

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Talked to Tess about the greatness of Diana Wynne Jones the other day and thought I'd point you all in the directions of some of her books, in particular the ones I think must not be missed. Some of these are YA, but I'm not telling you which ones, because I feel a grown up person should not be ashamed of reading YA books.

Howl's Moving Castle ( Read more... )

I'm feeling ridiculously happy for two reasons. The first is that I got metablogged. I don't get metablogged often enough to be jaded about it, so I'm beaming in my little corner of the world.

The second reason is that I read DWJ's "Deep Secret" today (which prevented me from studying, but never mind that), and how can one not be happy when one ( Read more... )