Currently reading: I was in the mood for some entertaining nonfiction, so I'm roughly a third of the way through Amy Stewart's The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Created the World's Great Drinks. It's more factual and historical than anecdotal, which I like, and Stewart carefully distinguishes between legend and what's actually known through ( Read more... )

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I finished re-reading The Taking of Planet 5 tonight (yes, I am re-reading the EDAs at quite a pace). ( A few spoilery reactions )

I've finally given in and started reading The Gallifrey Chronicles, the last Eighth Doctor Adventures novel. I was braced for Fitz being written badly, because the book's by Lance Parkin and he always writes Fitz badly/contemptuously. But I still wasn't quite prepared to see ( spoilers )

If you like Eight/Fitz, go and read Burning Books, by thought_goddess. It's a spare, starkly powerful story set during the Time War.

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I just finished re-reading Mark Michalowski's EDA Halflife. The first time I read it I was fairly new to the EDAs, and I probably should have waited, because it relies on knowing the characters a lot better than I did then. ( spoilers )

I've just started reading the EDA Sometime Never (having finally managed to finish the dreadful Emotional Chemistry on the third attempt). A few pages in, some baddies are plotting against the Doctor because he's a rogue, dangerous element in time.

‘Yet he infects everything and everyone he touches,’ Hexx pointed out. ‘One word from him, even, and ( Read more... )

My local library has just bought a bunch of Doctor Who books. I like to think I get some credit for this by virtue of having requested many, many Short Trips anthologies from Interlibrary Loan. (I never got most of them, mind you--apparently a lot of my requests were turned down by the lender institutions, which irks me--but at least I helped show ( Read more... )

Sixty-seven pages into my second attempt at reading The Infinity Race. And I HATE THIS BOOK. Simon Messingham is vandalizing the characters I love! Anji's a bitch who thinks Fitz is stupid and wishes he would die (which is extra appalling after the wonderful, loving friendship we see between Anji and Fitz in Time Zero); Fitz is a "big lug" (bzuh ( Read more... )