TITLE: Do Ut Des
AUTHOR: ryuutchi
CHARACTER/PAIRING: Jason, Leo, Nico, Jason/Leo pre-slash
SPOILERS: The Lost Hero, The Son of Neptune
CONTENT WARNINGS: Fighting, gratuitous Latin
RATING: G
SUMMARY: Nico shouldn't complain about the way Jason trains his troops. Leo doesn't mind a few bruises, really.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Written for honeysucklesong in the pjo_xchange.

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So I'm volunteering at Wild Iris Books, and I offered to start doing book reviews of feminist, queer, pagan or otherwise interesting books for their member-side blog.

My first review is up here: Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories

So, I'm labeling new books, so we can get them put on the shelf, and I came across a copy of David Rosenberg's The Book of David, which I guess is an exploration of David as a writer of the Bible? IDEK. What I do know is that someone (possibly the person who donated the book) decided to take the entire blank front page to write his or her notes ( Read more... )

I can't quite figure out why I dislike Holly Black's writing so much. I mean, the Modern Fairy Tale series just read as really LOL edgy to me. Very "I'm trying to be darkity darkity dark and rebellious"-- which I didn't even like much when I was a teenager ( Read more... )

One of the other staff lent me the copy of Wicked Lovely she'd checked out from the Education library. I'm only a few pages in, but the conceit is fun, if rather cliche ( Read more... )

If you're planning to write a book titled The Lost Gospel of Judas: Separating Fact from Fiction, you might want to not spend most of your concluding chapter bitching about Bart Ehrman's theory that "Orthodox" Christianity was a "lucky winner" out of a number of competing Christian sects. It makes you look like a) you have an axe to grind and b) ( Read more... )

It's really awful, I haven't read the books and I seriously don't want to, but the more I hear about the actors, the more I really want to watch Twilight when it comes out ( Read more... )

On putting holds for people on stacks of books, I came across a book titled:

The Pleasures of Computer Gaming (Edited by Melanie Swalwell and Jason Wilson)

The first article in it is: "Little Jesuses and *@#?-off Robots: On Cybernetics, Aesthetics and Not Being Very Good at Lego Star WarsHeh ( Read more... )

An essay title from a book that just crossed my desk:

"The Adventures of a Repressed Farmboy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville Fandom"

(The book is Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom, edited by Sharon Marie Ross and Louisa Ellen Stein)

Oh GOD. You're supposed to be librarians! Stop it with the "it's only a book, the underlying message doesn't matter because teens know truth from fiction ( Read more... )