Also a tumblr xpost!

Also by Sineala’s request, here are the fifteen books that have stayed with me (good and… not so) because I cannot do just ten, no way.

1. Maurice, by E.M. Forster. There are not words for how much I adore this book. It is so beautiful, and I love it so, so much. I like the movie also, but the book… FOREVER AND EVER ( Read more... )

Xpost from tumblr, because... I never post anything!

Fine, fine. By Sineala’s repeated requests, here is my answer to the “Ten Fics That Have Stayed With You” meme.

Not always because they were the best things I’ve ever read, but these are the ones that I seem to reference most frequently or whatever.

1. A Very Original Sin, by x_los. ( ( Read more... )

I didn't make my official Goodreads goal of 75 this year (it was 100 to start, then I dropped it to 50, then I upped that to 75), because I didn't feel much like reading a lot of the year. I read more fanfic than I had in a long time, I think was part of that. And there's not been anything I've really wanted to read; mostly I want gay boy ( Read more... )

What I've Been Reading

Threshold, by Jordan L. Hawk, which is the second book in her series about Percival Whyborne, comparative philologist, and his boyfriend Griffin Flaherty, private detective, who investigate supernatural mysteries in 19th c. New England. In this one, they go to West Virginia to investigate suspicious reports from a mine ( Read more... )

I thought I'd participate this week! Yay summer! Yay books!

What I Just Finished Reading

I just read the first two books in the Miss Sarah Tolerance series by Madeline Robins, Point of Honour and Petty Treason. They're plucky-girl-detective mysteries set in (more or less) Regency London. Sarah, a Fallen Woman (yes, always capitalized like ( Read more... )

From sineala: Name five favorite episodes of five favorite series.1. Highlander, "Methos": Because although I like other Duncan/Methos too (OMG nosepainting!), that meeting scene, the electric recognition between them? And then the scene under the bridge where Methos tries to give his Quickening to Duncan? There is nothing else that is so *instant* and ( Read more... )

Now that I have finally finished Cicero's pro Cluentio (well, excerpts from it, in Grose-Hodge's red Macmillan, anyway), I can announce that I made my goal: I read 150 books this year! Yay!

I was very annoyed at how few I read last year (60), so I was determined I should do better this year, and I did. I'd had visions of 200 swirling, but that might ( Read more... )

( Meme under cut, no spoilers for the new movie, but if you haven't read all the books, well, uh, spoilers, I guess. )

take from girlingoldboots:

Creature Fics: Like where one of the characters is a creature? A la the Krycek-merman fic? No.

Animagus: Meh. I don't like Daemon-fics (as in Pullman) either.

MPreg: I do like kid!fic, so I'll put up with some mpreg in a universe where it could make sense/be possible (HP, SGA), but I won't read it in fandoms where it seems ( Read more... )

For those who weren't checking back, the ultimate winner in last week's poll-meme turned out to be the lovely Liv Tyler! Yay, Liv! *uses Liv!icon in celebration* Stealing Beauty is one of my favorite movies ever still -- I should rewatch that soon! And congratulations to Karen Gillan (Amy Pond), of course, too, who just in a very last minute ( Read more... )