On the excellent rec of
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This novel alternates "Now" and "Then" sections. In "Then," teenage Cass bicycles across America with her best friend's ashes. In "Now," she has returned from her trip and is facing everything she tried to flee via road trip: high school, her friend's death, and the bully who called her a dyke in front of the entire school and now has inexplicably ( Read more... )

While compiling my lists, I ran across these two books:

Unnatural (Archangel Academy)
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The package sent to Rachel Ninja Brown, from telophase, contained a romance in which the hero is secretly a unicorn. Thank you! Maybe.

The actual contents of the other packages were:

1. Elk, venison, and buffalo jerky, from telophase. OM NOM NOM.
2. A romance novel in which the hero is an angel and the heroine is a tentacled mermaid, from oyceter3. A VB Rose pencil case ( Read more... )

I will write a flashfic, original or fanfic, to a prompt of the choice of the person or people who get the most correct and fewest incorrect guesses. People who actually sent me one or more of these items are disqualified, but should fill out the poll anyway!

Poll

I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while, ever since I pulled it off a dusty Little Tokyo shelf and bought it for a quarter, but it’s hard to do it justice ( Read more... )

In the last month I read a Laura Kinsale romance novel, THE SHADOW AND THE STAR, in which the romantic lead is a blonde ninja from Hawaii, and a middle-grade adventure novel, BLUE FINGERS, in which the main character is a Japanese farm boy who becomes a ninja ( Read more... )