Yuletide Fic and Last December Meme

[kmo_lj]

This year I received a fic and a Madness story and I wrote a fic and a Madness story. Parallelism!

I received The Case of the Sunken Safe, a lovingly crafted Mathnet casefic as my main gift. I was also gifted Island, a Stella-centric drabble from The Fall. The drabble is really just so perfectly Stella. Please check them out and give them lots of

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[silverflight8]

They are similar in feel to the Old Kingdom and Queen of Attolia books I think.

Definitely a plus :) I think I may have to look into them!

Oh yes, Anne of Green Gables is one of my favourite childhood books too! To be honest, stuff past like Anne of Windy Poplars makes me feel sad; I like the very first the best (though I've read them all). I don't know, Anne grows up so fast in even the first book (it's like what, four or five years in one book?) and it makes me so sad sometimes, esp since Matthew's death caps it. IDK! But I love them too, and now that I am on the east coast I keep meaning to go - I'm so close! It can't be more than an hour or two's flight! (Or I could drive across I guess, but that'd probably take a couple days). But unfortunately my summers are busy and the spring breaks are not good times to visit the Maritimes: one of my friends whose relatives live there tells of the stories when her aunts would phone her parents and say "sorry you can't come for the break, we're snowed in". :P

Ordinary Princess and Checking In sound awesome. (Thank you for the links too!) I also kinda want to read Checking In too. It sounds totally up my alley.

[kmo_lj]

I have to say there's the part in Anne's House of Dreams when she loses the baby...and that is just totally devastating. But yeah, the first three books I love so much and are totally warm and comforting for me.

I definitely recommend Ordinary Princess, it's a short and lovely read. I haven't read Checking In since I was about 10 and I have a feeling that it was more in the "written for 10 year olds" than in the "understandable for 10 year olds but has deep meaning adults will appreciate" mode. ;)