what I just finished reading

Most recently, The Poison Eaters, by Holly Black. I was actually trying to find The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, which several of you have mentioned to me lately, but since it was already checked out I ended up going with hamsterwoman's rec of Holly Black's short story collection instead. I liked it a lot, more than I expected to, ( Read more... )

Hello, new friends from the friending meme! I apologize that I have no intro post to which I can direct you...it is something of an ongoing dilemma. :P The short version of things is that I am 22, I live in Illinois, and I mostly post about comics and Doctor Who. Any questions, go for it.

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Yesterday was an exciting adventure in excessive walking brought to you by forgetting how the west end of my neighborhood works and taking the wrong bus entirely. I mixed up some streets and the bus I thought would save me four blocks of walking ended up adding eight. So that was interesting. It was also complicated by the part where I dug out my ( Read more... )

Hello, new friends from the friending meme! And the one before that! And the one before that....I apologize for not having an intro post or anything of that nature. I am always thinking I should make one, and yet, it never seems to happen.

Things I have been doing: I found What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland when I was rearranging my ( Read more... )

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Via elisi: it appears the recent LJ modifications may not be as disastrous as they first appeared?  As summarized here, there will be some customizability, including the ability to switch off infinite scroll (thank goodness).  Also, paid accounts aren't really going away--if you have one, you'll still have one, it looks like, and if you don't have one ( Read more... )

Hello!  Thank you so much for offering to write fic for me!  You are awesome.  :D

This is my first time doing Yuletide, so I hope I've got everything all together sensibly.  Here goes!
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Longish book meme snagged from trialia:

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I've finally caught up on Sherlock!  (no spoilers).  The finale was brilliant.  I know there's a lot of good Sherlock fic--does anyone have recommendations for short to medium-length stories?  I'm especially fond of Irene and Molly.  Molly and John watching out for/taking care of/commiserating with each other would be splendid.  Also, I now really ( Read more... )

Hello, flist!  I was wondering if any of you know of any good sci-fi books you could rec me.  I've always liked watching sci-fi more than reading it, but I just read The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) and Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang) back-to-back and now I'm in a genre fiction mood.  I generally like things that are ( Read more... )