CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY THIS YEAR

By which I mean Yuletide, by which I mean it opened a lot sooner than I was expecting! I got a fukking awesome gift fic: What the Fuk Is That?, a bit of excellent bantery team!fic for Tanya Huff's "Valor" seriesWhich, okay, let's pair this with a book rec: everyone in fandom needs to read the Valor books (also called ( Read more... )

Jacqueline Carey is doing an event at the Borders near my apartment on my birthday.

Clearly, this is fate. I can hold off buying Kushiel's Mercy two more weeks for this. \o/ !

Okay, so I just finished reading the first Kushiel's Legacy trilogy, by Jacqueline Carey, and I am in raptures of love and adoration. Now, I know she's written a second trilogy in that universe -- I think the last book is just coming out this month, actually -- and, y'know, my inclination is to go out and continue merrily along. Which I probably ( Read more... )

I have some Sports Nights icons now. I seem to be going through a textless phase of icon-making. Anyway, I think I shall use this as my directing icon, because it is the control room and Dana is kind of like a director, in a TV news sort of way. I wish I could give orders straight to my actors' ears in the middle of a play soemtimes, that's for ( Read more... )

For the Top 5! meme, courtesy of such_heights:

( Top 5 History Boys moments )

I really kind of hate it when I figure out the twist in a mystery-type book long before the end. It's one thing when I have a couple of guesses, and am working on confirming them. But when I've known for certain who the mysterious Mr. C is for the past eight chapters and there are still over a hundred pages left, it really robs me of all enjoyment ( Read more... )

In other news, Madeleine L'Engle just passed away. Her books were never quite at the top of my favorites list, but I still loved them quite a lot, and she will be missed.

And Sandy & Dennys were totally the original Fred & George. I'm just sayin'.

I'm rereading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for the first time since I first discovered it my senior year of high school, and suddenly I remember why this is the only LJ icon I have used consistently (and never even temporarily retired, even back when there was no option of buying extra userpics) for the past four years. Because this ( Read more... )

Okay, I've been wanting to pimp these books out since about a third of the way through the first one, but I figured I'd better wait until I'd finished out the series first, just in case the author went nuts and fucked everything up. But she didn't, and in fact they just kept getting better, so! Book rec! The Crown of Stars series, by Kate Elliot, ( Read more... )

So I bought this book yesterday, fantasy thing by no one I'd ever heard of, but it looked interesting and skimming through the first few pages didn't burn my eyes out (with fantasy, it can be very hit or miss), and it was in the bargain bin of the bookstore, so, hey! New book ( Read more... )